A Factor Graph Approach to Joint OFDM Channel Estimation and Decoding in Impulsive Noise Environments
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Publication:4579083
DOI10.1109/TSP.2013.2295063zbMATH Open1394.94888arXiv1306.1851MaRDI QIDQ4579083FDOQ4579083
Authors: Marcel Nassar, Philip Schniter, Brian L. Evans 
Publication date: 22 August 2018
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We propose a novel receiver for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmissions in impulsive noise environments. Impulsive noise arises in many modern wireless and wireline communication systems, such as Wi-Fi and powerline communications, due to uncoordinated interference that is much stronger than thermal noise. We first show that the bit-error-rate optimal receiver jointly estimates the propagation channel coefficients, the noise impulses, the finite-alphabet symbols, and the unknown bits. We then propose a near-optimal yet computationally tractable approach to this joint estimation problem using loopy belief propagation. In particular, we merge the recently proposed "generalized approximate message passing" (GAMP) algorithm with the forward-backward algorithm and soft-input soft-output decoding using a "turbo" approach. Numerical results indicate that the proposed receiver drastically outperforms existing receivers under impulsive noise and comes within 1 dB of the matched-filter bound. Meanwhile, with N tones, the proposed factor-graph-based receiver has only O(N log N) complexity, and it can be parallelized.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.1851
Source coding (94A29) Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)
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