Investigating the Performance of Various Channel Estimation Techniques for MIMO-OFDM Systems using Matlab

Abstract

This paper simulates and investigates the performance of four widely-used channel estimation techniques for MIMO-OFDM wireless communication systems; namely, super imposed pilot (SIP), comb-type, space-time block coding (STBC), and space-frequency block coding (SFBC) techniques.The performance is evaluated through a number of MATLab simulations, where the bit-error rate (BER) and the mean square error (MSE) are estimated and compared for different levels of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The simulation results demonstrate that the comb-type channel estimation and the SIP techniques overwhelmed the performance of the STFC and STBC techniques in terms of both bit-error rate (BER) and mean square error (MSE).

Keywords

MIMO-OFDM, pilot-based channel estimation, pilot allocation, SIP, comb-type, STBC, SFBC, MATLab.