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Performance Analysis of Tikhonov Regularized LS Channel Estimation for MIMO OFDM Systems with Virtual Carriers

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In this paper the effect of virtual carriers (VCs) on channel estimation performance is considered for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. The link between the number of VCs and the inverse problem in a conventional LS channel estimation is identified. It is observed that a linear increase in VCs contributes to an exponential increase of the system inverse problem as the condition number of the inverse matrix is exponentially increased. A solution is proposed using a low complexity modified LS channel estimation. The performance analysis of the modified LS channel estimation, regarding the effect of VCs, show gains in both the mean square error (MSE) performance of channel estimation as well as bit error rate (BER) system performance compared to conventional LS. The performance is improved irrespective of the increasing number of VCs as the estimator is shown to be insensitive to the increase of VCs in the OFDM system. The complexity reduction is also considered and an approach is proposed showing a similar complexity as LS.

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Konstantinidis, S., Freear, S. Performance Analysis of Tikhonov Regularized LS Channel Estimation for MIMO OFDM Systems with Virtual Carriers. Wireless Pers Commun 64, 703–717 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-010-0214-2

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