Optimal design of source and relay pilots for MIMO relay channel estimation

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 4438-4446

  Kong, Ting ^a   Hua, Yingbo ^b  

^a VIA Telecom ^*  (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Convex optimization; MIMO wireless relays; non convex optimization; pilot waveform design; relay channel estimation

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CORRELATION; DIRECT LINKS; MATRIX; MIMO RELAY; MINIMUM MEAN-SQUARE-ERROR ESTIMATIONS; NON-CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; NON-REGENERATIVE; OPTIMAL DESIGN; PHASE 1; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; RELAY CHANNELS; SECOND PHASE; WAVEFORM DESIGNS;

ALGORITHMS; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MIMO SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; SQUARE WAVE GENERATORS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 80051772071     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2011.2158429     Document Type: Article

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