Bayesian Learning for Joint Sparse OFDM Channel Estimation and Data Detection

Prasad, Ranjitha and Murthy, Chandra R (2010) Bayesian Learning for Joint Sparse OFDM Channel Estimation and Data Detection. In: IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2010), DEC 06-10, 2010, Miami, FL.

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Abstract

The impulse response of a typical wireless multipath channel can be modeled as a tapped delay line filter whose non-zero components are sparse relative to the channel delay spread. In this paper, a novel method of estimating such sparse multipath fading channels for OFDM systems is explored. In particular, Sparse Bayesian Learning (SBL) techniques are applied to jointly estimate the sparse channel and its second order statistics, and a new Bayesian Cramer-Rao bound is derived for the SBL algorithm. Further, in the context of OFDM channel estimation, an enhancement to the SBL algorithm is proposed, which uses an Expectation Maximization (EM) framework to jointly estimate the sparse channel, unknown data symbols and the second order statistics of the channel. The EM-SBL algorithm is able to recover the support as well as the channel taps more efficiently, and/or using fewer pilot symbols, than the SBL algorithm. To further improve the performance of the EM-SBL, a threshold-based pruning of the estimated second order statistics that are input to the algorithm is proposed, and its mean square error and symbol error rate performance is illustrated through Monte-Carlo simulations. Thus, the algorithms proposed in this paper are capable of obtaining efficient sparse channel estimates even in the presence of a small number of pilots.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Series.:	IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom)
Publisher:	IEEE
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Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Communication Engineering
Date Deposited:	06 Apr 2011 07:39
Last Modified:	06 Apr 2011 07:39
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/36614

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