Joint estimation and data detection in ofdm systems with very high mobility

We consider frequency selective and very rapidly time varying channels. H were we
compare he estimation performance of three algorithms mainly VBLAST EM and
SAGE.It is found that in fast fading channels the orthogonality between subcarriers
is destroyed by the time variation of a fading channel over an ofdm symbol duration
which causes severe Inter Carrier interference(ICI) and conventional frequency
domain approaches result in irreducible error flows.The algorithm we use based on
sage technique which is well suited o multi carrier signal formats,leading a receiver
structure that incorporates ICI cancellation.A computational study of the algorithm
shows that using discrete cosine orthogonal basis functions o represent he rapidly
time varying fading channels depending on normalized Doppler frequencies only a
small number of expansion coefficients is sufficient o approximate the channel
perfectly even without knowledge of the correlation of the input signals.An
extension o the algorithm using maximum aposteriori probability technique is also
studied which enables one o use the Gaussian approximation of transmitted ofdm
samples.The extended Algorithm makes possible the averaging of the non pilot data
symbols resulting in a feasible and computationally efficient channel estimation
algorithm.We also derive he Bayesian CRLB and convergence rate of the algorithm
analytically.