Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (11): 3649-3655.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2023.11.33

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Deep learning based channel estimation for OFDM systems in fast time-varying channel

Ce JI1,2, Bohan SONG1,*, Rong GENG1, Minjun LIANG3   

  1. 1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110169, China
    2. Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing for Medical Imaging, Ministry of Education, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110169, China
    3. College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China
  • Received:2022-10-31 Online:2023-10-25 Published:2023-10-31
  • Contact: Bohan SONG

Abstract:

In order to solve the problem of poor channel estimation performance caused by non-stationary characteristics of fast time-varying channels, a channel estimation algorithm based on deep learning under basis expansion model is proposed and applied to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. Firstly, according to the local correlation characteristics of the fast time-varying channel matrix, a time-frequency feature extraction network is constructed to extract the relevant features of the channel in time domain and frequency domain by using the convolution structure, and is embedded in the next network for feature fusion. Secondly, the gated recurrent unit is used to capture the time correlation of channel changes at different symbols, so as to achieve more accurate channel estimation in the fast time-varying channel environment. Simulation results show that compared with other channel estimation algorithms in fast time-varying environments, the performance of the proposed algorithm is improved obviously. Meanwhile, the lightweight structure of the network reduces the complexity of the algorithm by at least 20%.

Key words: channel estimation, northogonal frequecy division multiplexing (OFDM), fast time-varing, deep learning, basis expansion model

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