Rapajic, Predrag, Liu, Yang, Kennedy, Rodney A. and Sadeghi, Parastoo (2008) Pilot symbol transmission for time-varying fading channels: an information-theoretic optimization. In: Wysocki, Beata J. and Wysocki, Tadeusz A., (eds.) Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Signal Processing and Telecommunication Systems ICSPCS'2007 Australia, Gold Coast December 17-19, 2007. DSP for Communication Systems, Tarrawanna, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 34-42. ISBN 9780975693445

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Abstract

We consider the optimal design of pilot-symbolassisted
modulation (PSAM) in time-varying flat-fading channels
(FFC). The FFC is modeled as an autoregressive Gauss-Markov
random process, whose realization is unknown at the transmitter or at the receiver. Our measure of optimality for channel estimation is the rate of information transfer through the channel. The parameters that are available for this optimization are the power ratio and the fraction of time that are allocated to pilot transmission. Our approach is different from (and builds upon) a recent study of PSAM for the Gauss-Markov FFC, where the aim was to minimize the maximum steady-state minimum mean square error (MMSE) of channel estimation for equal power allocated to pilot and data symbols and for a fixed pilot insertion ratio. To this end, we examine a lower bound on the capacity and find the optimal pilot transmission parameters that maximize this bound. Our analysis shows that this capacity lower bound is more sensitive to the pilot power allocation ratio in relatively slow fading channels (with the normalized fading rate fDT8~0.01).We observe that for such slow fading rates, optimal power allocation and optimal pilot spacing are more sensitive to the operating SNR. Another finding is that equal power allocation strategy is suboptimal by at most 1 dB for the slow fading rate of fDT8~0.01

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	[1] This paper forms part of the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, ICSPCS’2007 Australia, Gold Coast, 17-19 December 2007 [2] This international conference incorporated The 9th International Symposium on DSP and Communication Systems, DSPCS’2007, and The 6th Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing, WITSP'2007
Uncontrolled Keywords:	pilot-symbol-assisted modulation, time-varying flat-fading channels, channel estimation, channel information capacity, capacity lower bounds
Subjects:	T Technology > T Technology (General) T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Pre-2014 Departments:	School of Engineering School of Engineering > Department of Computer & Communications Engineering
Related URLs:	Organisation Organisation
Last Modified:	28 Jan 2020 13:41
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/2976

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