Enhanced EM-based channel estimation for MIMO-OFDM in highly mobile channels

An enhanced expectation-maximization(EM)-based iterative channel estimator for coping with channel time variation is proposed for mobile multiple-input multi-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(MIMO-OFDM)systems.In the proposed scheme,the recursive least squares(RLS)algorithm is applied to track the time-varying channel impulse response(CIR)within several symbols.By using the tracked time-varying CIR,the ICI are constructed and then cancelled from the received signal,thus reducing their impactions on the channel estimation.Moreover,based on an over-sampled complex exponential basis expansion model(OCE-BEM),an improved channel predictor is derived in order to improve the initial channel estimates accuracy of the iterative estimator.Simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the classic counterpart in time-varying scenarios with a smaller cost of complexity.