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Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics Vol. 26, No. 2, April 2015, pp.232–240 Low-complexity fractional phase estimation for totally blind channel estimation 1 1 1,2,* Xu Wang , Tao Yang , and Bo Hu 1. Department of Electronic Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; 2. Key Laboratory of EMW Information, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China Abstract: To remove the scalar ambiguity in conventional blind Recently, the ambiguity problem in blind channel es- channel estimation algorithms, totally blind channel estimation timation attracts much attention. For conventional algo- (TBCE) is proposed by using multiple constellations. To estimate rithms like Al-Naffouri’s method, there is an unknown the unknown scalar, its phase is decomposed into a fractional scalar which cannot be identified. If pilots are used to es- phase and an integer phase. However, the maximum-likelihood (ML) algorithm for the fractional phase does not have closed-form timate the ambiguous scalar, then the algorithm becomes solutions and suffers from high computational complexity. By ex- semi-blind. It was considered as an inherent problem in ploring the structures of widely used constellations, this paper blind channel estimation for many years and [7] even pro- proposes a low-complexity fractional phase estimation algorithm vided a proof for that. which requires no exhaustive search. Analytical expressions of the asymptotic mean squared error (MSE) are also derived. The theo- However, no a priori information of the transmitted