Exact Bit Error Rate for SVD-based MIMO systems with Channel Estimation Errors

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward S. Au ◽  
Wai Mow
Keyword(s):  
Channel Estimation ◽  
Bit Error Rate ◽  
Error Rate ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Estimation Errors ◽  
Channel Estimation Errors

scholarly journals Smoothing techniques for decision-directed MIMO OFDM channel estimation

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 139-143
Author(s):  
P. Beinschob ◽  
U. Zölzer
Keyword(s):  
Channel Estimation ◽  
Bit Error Rate ◽  
Error Rate ◽  
Error Propagation ◽  
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Smoothing Techniques ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Channel Estimate ◽  
Mimo Ofdm

Abstract. With the purpose of supplying the demand of faster and more reliable communication, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems in conjunction with Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) are subject of extensive research. Successful Decoding requires an accurate channel estimate at the receiver, which is gained either by evaluation of reference symbols which requires designated resources in the transmit signal or decision-directed approaches. The latter offers a convenient way to maximize bandwidth efficiency, but it suffers from error propagation due to the dependency between the decoding of the current data symbol and the calculation of the next channel estimate. In our contribution we consider linear smoothing techniques to mitigate error propagation by the introduction of backward dependencies in the decision-based channel estimation. Designed as a post-processing step, frame repeat requests can be lowered by applying this technique if the data is insensitive to latency. The problem of high memory requirements of FIR smoothing in the context of MIMO-OFDM is addressed with an recursive approach that acquires minimal resources with virtual no performance loss. Channel estimate normalized mean square error and bit error rate (BER) performance evaluations are presented. For reference, a median filtering technique is presented that operates on the MIMO time-frequency grids of channel coefficients to reduce the peak-like outliers produced by wrong decisions due to unsuccessful decoding. Performance in terms of Bit Error Rate is compared to the proposed smoothing techniques.

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