IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
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A Study on Channel Estimation Methods for Time-Domain Spreading MC-CDMA Systems
Atsushi NAGATETeruya FUJII
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2009 Volume E92.B Issue 3 Pages 980-991

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As a candidate for the transmission technology of next generation mobile communication systems, time-domain spreading MC-CDMA systems have begun to attract much attention. In these systems, data and pilot symbols are spread in the time domain and code-multiplexed. To combat fading issues, we need to conduct channel estimation by using the code-multiplexed pilot symbols. Especially in next generation systems, frequency bands higher than those of current systems, which raise the maximum Doppler frequency, are expected to be used, so that a more powerful channel estimation method is expected. Considering this, we propose a channel estimation method for highly accurate channel estimation; it is a combination of a two-dimensional channel estimation method and an impulse response-based channel estimation method. We evaluate the proposed method by computer simulations.

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