Time-Variant Channel Prediction using Time-Concentrated and Band-Limited Sequences

Thomas Zemen, Christoph Mecklenbrauker, Bernard Fleury
2006 2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications  
We present the basic methodology for minimumenergy bandlimited prediction of time-variant flat Rayleighfading channels. This predictor is based on a subspace spanned by time-concentrated and bandlimited sequences. The concept of time-variant channel estimation using time-concentrated and band-limited sequences was introduced recently by Zemen et al. We extend this concept to the problem of time-variant channel prediction. Slepian showed that discrete prolate spheroidal (DPS) sequences can be
more » ... d to calculate the minimum-energy bandlimited continuation of a finite sequence. DPS sequences are optimal for a time-variant channel with flat Doppler spectrum. We generalize the concept of time-concentrated and band-limited sequences to arbitrary Doppler spectra approaching closely the lower prediction error limit defined by the Wiener filter. In practical systems detailed channel covariance information is not available. We design a set of subspaces spanned by DPS sequences with fixed time-concentration but growing bandwidth. The best DPS subspace is selected dynamically for each observation interval using a Doppler bandwidth estimate allowing for low complexity channel prediction. The performance of the new predictor is compared to that of the Wiener filter by means of Monte Carlo simulations.
doi:10.1109/icc.2006.255565 dblp:conf/icc/ZemenMF06 fatcat:ndhnkp5ejffk5lzmwxktnlqr2i