Proposal of channel estimation scheme for practical V-BLAST MIMO-OFDM system

Abstract

In wireless communication, multiple input and multiple output technique is often applied with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) because of its many advantages such as spectral efficiency, link reliability, diversity gain and so on. In the practical MIMO-OFDM system, it has a signal aliasing problem due to the mismatch of sampling from adding zero padding at both front and rear of data transmission in each OFDM symbol. To solve this problem, the channel estimation by using the new comb-type pilot symbol arrangement scheme is proposed for the practical MIMO-OFDM system. From the computer results, it can be shown that the proposed channel estimation scheme can perform higher system performances than the conventional scheme in the practical V- BLAST MIMO-OFDM system.