On optimum pilot design for comb-type OFDM transmission over doubly-selective channels

K. M.Zahidul Islam, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri, Naofal Al-Dhahir

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Abstract

We consider comb-type OFDM transmission over doubly-selective channels. Given a fixed number and total power of the pilot subcarriers, we show that the MMSE-optimum pilot design consists of identical equally-spaced clusters where each cluster is zero-correlation-zone sequence.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5715843
Pages (from-to)930-935
Number of pages6
JournalIEEE Transactions on Communications
Volume59
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2011

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Paper approved by H. Arslan, the Editor for Cognitive Radio and OFDM of the IEEE Communications Society. Manuscript received June 24, 2010; no revision. K. M. Z. Islam and N. Al-Dhahir are with the Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA (e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]). T. Y. Al-Naffouri is with the Electrical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (e-mail: [email protected]). This work was supported by King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Saudi Arabia, Project no. AR 27-98. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TCOMM.2011.020411.100151

Keywords

  • Doppler
  • ICI
  • OFDM
  • Pilot optimization
  • ZCZ sequence

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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