Time domain equalization method for TS-OFDM signal under higher mobile environments

In higher time-varying fading channels, the signal quality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technique would be degraded relatively due to the occurrence of inter-carrier interference (ICI). To solve this problem, this paper firstly proposes a new design of time domain training sequence (TS) in the estimation of channel impulse response (CIR) for the TS-OFDM signal which can reduce the leakage of power spectrum density (PSD) at the outside of OFDM allocated frequency bandwidth with keeping higher CIR estimation accuracy. Secondly, this paper proposes a time domain equalization (TDE) method which can achieve better bit error rate (BER) performance with keeping lower computation complexity even in higher time-varying fading channels. The salient feature of the proposed TDE method is to employ a partial differentiation for the time domain CIR matrix for solving the maximum likelihood (ML) equation in which the time domain CIR matrix becomes a symmetric banded matrix. From this feature, a low-complexity parallel block inverse matrix algorithm can be employed in the calculation of inverse matrix in keeping the same accuracy as that of the direct inverse matrix calculation. This paper presents various computer simulation results to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed TDE method for the TS-OFDM signal as compared with conventional frequency domain equalization (FDE) methods under higher mobile environments.