Hello, I am testing different OFDM Channel estimation (CE) approaches by modelation in Simulink, and I am having a problem, that might be stupid but is taking to much of my time without finding a solution. My problem comes when I want to compare several methods to ideal LMMSE CE. I know the channel from measurements, so I have the attenuation coefficients for each subcarrier, i.e. the column vector H. Since Hest_LMMSE=RHH*(RHH+beta/SNR*I)^-1 * Hest_LS, I need to compute RHH. Therefore, since I have the true vector H, I compute: RHH=H*H_hermitian (resulting an NxN matrix). I then I apply the real SNR value to obtain the matrix filter. The problem is that I get a perfectly shaped estimation, but there is an offset, i.e. Hest_LMMSE=K*H. Where K is a constant that is different for each channel... I was wondering whether I am computing the RHH matrix wrongly, but since RHH=E{H*H_hermitian} and I have perfect channel knowledge, RHH=H*H_hermitian. Is not it? The fact is that this matrix has not 1s in its diagonal, but the abs^2 of each attenuation coefficient. Am I missing some kind of normalization? Thanks
OFDM Autocovariance Channel Matrix for LMMSE channel estimation
Started by ●July 14, 2008