Improvement on the Channel Estimation of Pilot Cyclic Prefixed Single Carrier (PCP-SC) System

The pilot cyclic prefixed single carrier (PCP-SC) system has the ability to achieve channel estimation in a fast-fading environment. It also enables symbol recovery even when the frequency domain of the channel has nulls. This letter proposes a simple but effective way of improving the performance of channel estimation. Regardless of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and the pilot type, the receiver can achieve about a 1.72 dB performance gain for the mean squared error (MSE) of channel estimation if it implements the proposed method with slightly additional computational complexity. The proposed method can also be utilized in any type of pilot in PCP-SC and MIMO systems.