ITERATIVE EXTENDED SOFT-RLS ALGORITHM FOR JOINT CHANNEL AND FREQUENCY OFFSET ESTIMATION FOR CODED MIMO-OFDM SYSTEMS

摘要

A method embodiment receives a symbol vector on a plurality of channels. For each of the channels, the channel and a normalized frequency offset of the channel is estimated. Also for each of the channels, a soft decision value of the symbol vector is determined. An iterative recursive least squares RLS algorithm is executed on each of the channels that approximates a covariance matrix of a composite noise vector of the received symbol vector until a minimum change to the estimate of the channel and the estimate of the normalized frequency offset is reached. Using the recursively estimated channel and normalized frequency offset across each of the channels, a jointly decoded decision on the symbol vector is output. Embodiments for devices and computer programs are also detailed.