| 摘要 |
<p>A receiver is arranged to detect and recover data from Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbols, which are transmitted as first and second versions to form a multiple input single output (MISO) system and which carry pairs of data symbols encoded to form Alamouti cells. The receiver includes a channel estimator and corrector, which is arranged to form an estimate of the data symbols, by generating an estimate of first and second channels via which the first and second versions of the OFDM symbols are received. The receiver includes a channel estimator and corrector comprising a pilot data extractor which is arranged to extract the pilot data from the OFDM symbols, a frequency dimension interpolator which is arranged to interpolate between the pilot data received from each of the OFDM symbols in the frequency domain to form sum pilot data and difference pilot data, a sum and difference decoder arranged to combine the sum and difference pilot data to form for each data symbol of the Alamouti pairs an estimate of a sample of the first channel and an estimate of the sample of the second channel, and an Alamouti decoder. The Alamouti decoder is arranged to receive the data bearing sub-carriers from the OFDM symbols and to estimate the data symbols by performing Alamouti decoding using the estimates of the samples for the first and second channels. As such a receiver for a MISO communication system is arranged to recover an estimate of the data symbols, which have been Alamouti-type encoded using frequency dimension interpolation only.</p> |
