Channel estimation with scattered pilots in OFDM/OQAM

Abstract

OFDM/OQAM is a multi-carrier modulation scheme that can be considered as an alternative to conventional OFDM with cyclic prefix (CP) for transmission over multi-path fading channels. As it requires no CP, it has the advantage of a theoretically higher spectral efficiency. Furthermore, efficient pulse shaping can also be easily implemented. However, the classical channel estimation methods used for OFDM cannot be directly applied to OFDM/OQAM. In this paper, we present an analysis of this problem and we introduce a channel estimation method using scattered pilots. The performance results are evaluated for a slow varying multi-path channel model. For both scenarios, the results of OFDM/OQAM, using 2 different pulse shaping, are compared to those of CP-OFDM.