Adaptive Carrier Frequency Offset and Channel Estimation For MIMO
Adaptive Carrier Frequency Offset and Channel Estimation For MIMO
Adaptive Carrier Frequency Offset and Channel Estimation For MIMO
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the signal from the ith subchannel of the kth transmit antenna. method to estimate them simultaneously. The extended
The received vector r (n) for all subcarriers is defined as Kalman filter is introduced here to solve the nonlinear
T estimation problem.
r (n) r0 r1 rNc 1 C Nc . Therefore, the received From the dynamics of the state equations in (7) and
signal for each subchannel can be expressed as Kalman filter algorithm [25], we can obtain
ri (n) y i (n) wi (n), i 0, , Nc 1 (4) ˆ n 1| n 1))
X̂(n | n 1) G(X( (10)
where X̂(n | n) = X̂(n | n 1) + Ka (n)e(n) (11)
2 iv ( n )
Nt 1 j Nt 1 where
y i ( n) S
k 0
i,k ( n)e Nc
hik (n) s
k 0
i,k (n)hik (n) e(n) r (n) D(X( ˆ n | n 1)) (12)
(5)
2 iv ( n ) and Ka(n) is the corresponding Kalman gain. Here, e(n)
j
si , k (n) Si , k (n)e Nc
denotes the prediction error. Ka(n) is employed to minimize
the covariance E{e(n)e(n)T} of the prediction error. The
Let extended Kalman gain Ka(n) and the error covariance matrices
H
hi (n) h0i (n) h1i (n) hNi c 1 (n) P(n|n) of the smooth range prediction and estimation are
(6) obtained from the following equations:
H
h(n) h H 0 (n) h H 1 (n) h H Nt 1 (n) P n | n 1 gP n 1| n 1 g H V2 I (13)
1
Joint CFO and channel estimation problem can be transformed Ka (n) P n | n 1 d dP n | n 1 d Q
H H 2
(14)
into the following state-space equations.
P n | n I Ka (n)d P n | n 1 (15)
X(n) G(X(n 1)) V(n) (7) where
r (n) D(X(n)) w(n) (8) b 0 0 0
0 0
where G X 1 0
( n) b (n) v (n) g= (16)
a ( n) (n) X 0 h(n) a1 I Nt Nc a2 I Nt Nc
X(n) 1 , G (X(n)) a1 (n) , V(n) a
(9)
h(n) a1 (n)h(n) a2 h(n 1) Vh (n) 0 0 I Nt N c 0 Nt Nc
h(n 1) h(n) 0
and
However, the joint estimation in (7) is a nonlinear problem
due to the coupling. It is not easy for any linear estimation
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0 0 s0,0 (n) 0 0 0 s00,11 (n) 0 0 s0,0 Nt 1 ( n) 0 0
2
j y1 0 0 s1,0 (n) 0 0 0 s1,1 (n) 0 0 s0, Nt 1 ( n) 0
D X Nc
d= (17)
X
2 ( N c 1)
j yNc 1 0 0 0 0 sNc 11,00 (n) 0 0 sNc 1,1
1 1 ( n) 0 0 sNc 11, Nt 1 ( n)
Nc
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Note that ri n C1 , Xi (n) C
2 Nt 2
, Ka (n) C
2 Nt 21
ˆ (n 1| n 1))
X̂i (n | n 1) Gi (X (23) ,
i
1 2 Nt 2
Pi (n | n ) C
2 Nt 2 2 Nt 2
C
2 Nt 2 2 Nt 2
X̂i (n | n) X̂i (n | n 1) Kai (n)e(n) (24) , gi , d C .
Meanwhile, no matrix shall be inverted when K a (n) is
where
calculated. This algorithm can reduce the computational
ˆ (n | n 1)) complexity. Although there are Nc EKFs, it is still worthy.
ei (n) ri (n) di (Xi (25)
V. COMPUTER SIMULATION
The extended Kalman gain K ai (n) and the error covariance
Table 1 shows the power delay profile in the urban area
matrices Pi(n|n) of the smooth range prediction and estimation with the root-mean-square delay T 1s . Mobile velocities
are obtained from the following equations: from 5 to 200 km/hr are used to simulate different mobile
environments. The central frequency f c is 2 GHz in the
Pi n | n 1 gi Pi n 1| n 1 giH 2
Vi I (26) MIMO-OFDM system. The available bandwidth BW is 2.048
1
MHz which is divided into 512 subchannels. These
Kai (n) Pi n | n 1 diH di P n | n 1 diH Q2i (27) correspond to a subcarrier symbol rate of 4 kHz and an
OFDM symbol duration of 312.5 s . The number of CPs
Pi n | n I Kai (n)d Pi n | n 1 (28) N cp 128 is used to provide protection from ISI due to the
channel multipath delay spread. In the following simulations,
where
two transmitter antennas and two receiver antennas are used
b 0 0 0 ( Nt 2, N r 2 ) and the Alamouti code ( T 2 ) is adopted
0 0
Gi Xi 1 0 [2].
gi = (29)
Xi 0 H i (n) a1 I Nt a2 I Nt
Table 1. Power Delay Profile in the Typical Urban Area
0 0 I Nt 0 Nt Delay 0.0 0.2 0.5 1.6 2.3 5.0
Fractional 0.189 0.379 0.239 0.095 0.061 0.037
Di Xi 2 i
di = j yi 0 si ,0 (n) si ,1 (n) si , Nt 1 (n) 0 0 0 Power
Xi Nc
(30)
By running the simulation for 50 trials and 1000 OFDM
There are Nc EKFs to estimate X̂i (n | n), i 1, , Nc . The block symbols per trial in this example, the performance of
the system is measured in term of the normalized mean square
covariance of E ei (n)eiT (n) of the smooth range prediction error (NMSE) of the channel estimation. The NMSE for the
error is expressed as mth subcarrier is defined as
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