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On the Performance Limits of Pilot-Based Estimation of Bandlimited Frequency-Selective Communication Channels

Information Theory 2012-03-14 v1 Networking and Internet Architecture math.IT

Abstract

In this paper the problem of assessing bounds on the accuracy of pilot-based estimation of a bandlimited frequency selective communication channel is tackled. Mean square error is taken as a figure of merit in channel estimation and a tapped-delay line model is adopted to represent a continuous time channel via a finite number of unknown parameters. This allows to derive some properties of optimal waveforms for channel sounding and closed form Cramer-Rao bounds.

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@article{arxiv.1203.2768,
  title  = {On the Performance Limits of Pilot-Based Estimation of Bandlimited Frequency-Selective Communication Channels},
  author = {Francesco Montorsi and Giorgio M. Vitetta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.2768},
  year   = {2012}
}