Pilot transmission and channel estimation for MISO and MIMO receivers in a multi-antenna system

摘要

A transmitter generates multiple composite pilots with a training matrix and a gain matrix. Each composite pilot includes multiple training pilots generated with multiple columns of the training matrix and scaled with multiple gain elements in a column of the gain matrix. The transmitter transmits each composite pilot via multiple transmit antennas. A MISO receiver obtains received symbols for the multiple composite pilots and derives an estimate of a composite MISO channel. For OFDM, the MISO receiver derives an initial impulse response estimate for each composite pilot, filters the initial impulse response estimates for all composite pilots, and derives a frequency response estimate for the composite MISO channel. A MIMO receiver obtains and processes received symbols for the multiple composite pilots based on the training and gain matrices and derives channel estimates for individual SISO channels between the multiple transmit antennas and multiple receive antennas.