Cyclostationarity-based doppler spread estimation in mobile fading channels

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-22-2009

Abstract

The Doppler spread, or equivalently, the mobile speed, is a measure of the spectral dispersion of mobile fading channel. Accurate estimation of the mobile speed is of importance in wireless mobile applications which require the knowledge of the rate of channel variations. This paper exploits the inherent cyclostationarity of linearly modulated signals, transmitted through fading channels, to design robust blind and data-aided mobile speed estimators. Two categories of cyclic-correlationand cyclic-spectrum-based methods are developed. Extension to space-time speed estimation at the base station in macrocells is also provided. In comparison with the existing methods, the new estimators can be used without any need for pilot tones, and are robust to additive stationary noise or interference of any color or distribution. Unlike the conventional multi-antenna based method, the proposed space-time speed estimator does not assume the receiver noise to be spatially white. We also devised a suboptimal training sequence for pilot-symbol assisted methods, to reduce the estimation error. The performances of the proposed estimators are illustrated via extensive Monte Carlo simulations. © 2009 IEEE.

Identifier

65649087915 (Scopus)

Publication Title

IEEE Transactions on Communications

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2009.04.070255

ISSN

00906778

First Page

1061

Last Page

1067

Issue

4

Volume

57

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