Superimposed Pilot Based Channel Estimation for MIMO Coded FBMC Systems

Abstract

In this paper superimposed pilot based channel estimation technique is proposed for MIMO coded FBMC systems. In coded FBMC intrinsic interference is mitigated by using spreading of symbols across time. Superimposed pilot based channel estimation is a technique that improves the spectral efficiency by transmitting the pilot symbols along with the data symbols on a set of selected subcarriers. The proposed system achieves the same bit-error performance and mean square error performance as that of MIMO-OFDM with an additional advantage of improved spectral efficiency. The spectral efficiency is improved in two ways. By removing the cyclic prefix overhead and by avoiding the use of dedicated subcarriers for pilots.