A Channel Estimation Technique for Dynamic Parameter Controlled - OF/TDMA Systems

This paper proposes a channel estimation technique for the dynamic parameter controlled - orthogonal frequency and time division multiple access (DPC-OF/TDMA) system. In the proposed scheme, channel impulse response that represents channel state information (CSI) is measured using a carrier interferometry (CI) which is equivalent to impulse transmission. Moreover, because the minimum unit (subchannel block) of subcarriers to be allocated to each terminal is 64 subcarriers, to achieve high accuracy of the estimated CSI with a spreading factor of 64, code-multiplexed pilot signal is applied to identify base station (BS) in the cell search process, and CSI between a terminal and each transmit antenna element in the BS is detected using a time-domain-multiplexed CI signal for ease of extension of the DPC-OF/TDMA to multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems. Furthermore, we will also propose a CSI estimation scheme flexible to the plural subchannel block assignment cases. Computer simulation confirms that the proposed scheme can estimate the CSI regardless of the number of subchannel blocks assigned to each terminal