Frequency-Hopping Pilot Patterns for OFDM Cellular Systems

Branislav M. POPOVIC
Yang LI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E89-A    No.9    pp.2322-2328
Publication Date: 2006/09/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e89-a.9.2322
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Sequence Design and its Application in Communications)
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Keyword: 
pilot patterns,  OFDM,  cellular systems,  3G evolution,  UTRA,  

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Summary: 
A general method for generating multiple two-dimensional frequency-hopping pilot signals with limited mutual interference, for propagation channel estimation in time and frequency with equidistant sampling, is presented. Each pilot signal uses a different generic frequency-hopping pilot pattern that is repeated in frequency domain, with repetition period equal to the desired sampling interval in frequency domain. Some interesting special cases of the general construction are considered as well. The practical applicability and usefulness of the proposed solution are demonstrated by the numerical evaluation of a set of frequency-hopping pilot patterns in a typical multi-cell scenario of the future evolved third generation cellular systems.

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