An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing （OFDM） is one of the effective techniques used in wireless communication. In OFDM systems, channel impairments due to multipath dispersive spreading can cause deep fades in wireless channels. Thus, the OFDM receiver requires channel state information when coherent detection is involved. Therefore, to overcome the impact of channel fades good channel estimation （CE） methods are needed in OFDM systems. And one of these CE methods is a semi-blind CE. However, the semi-blind method requires a large number of processing operations. In order to avoid the high computing complexity of the existing method, scaled least square （SLS） technique is applied to improve the performance of the semi-blind channel estimator which require less knowledge of the channel second-order statistics and have better performance than the least square （LS） which used in semi-blind CE. Simulation results shows, this proposed method of semi-blind CE has the capacity of elevating CE performance in multiple-input multiple-output （MIMO） OFDM systems.
Aiming to the estimation of source numbers, mixing matrix and separation of mixing signals under underdetermined case, the article puts forward a method of underdetermined blind source separation （UBSS） with an application in ultra-wideband （UWB） communication signals. The method is based on the sparse characteristic of UWB communication signals in the time domain. Firstly, finding the single source area by calculating the ratio of observed sampling points. Then an algorithm called hough-windowed method was introduced to estimate the number of sources and mixing matrix. Finally the separation of mixing signals using a method based on amended subspace projection. The simulation results indicate that the proposed method can separate UWB communication signals successfully, estimate the mixing matrix with higher accuracy and separate the mixing signals with higher gain compared with other conventional algorithms. At the same time, the method reflects the higher stability and the better noise immunity.
