Channel Parameter Estimation in Mobile Radio Environments Using the SAGE Algorithm英文文献.pdfVIP

434 IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS, VOL. 17, NO. 3, MARCH 1999 Channel Parameter Estimation in Mobile Radio Environments Using the SAGE Algorithm Bernard H. Fleury, Member, IEEE , Martin Tschudin, Student Member, IEEE, Ralf Heddergott, Student Member, IEEE, Dirk Dahlhaus, Member, IEEE , and Klaus Ingeman Pedersen, Student Member, IEEE Abstract— This study investigates the application potential available to the system designers. Such models must reproduce of the SAGE (space-alternating generalized expectation- in a realistic manner the entire dispersive behavior of the maximization) algorithm to jointly estimate the relative propagation channel, i.e., in delay, direction, Doppler, and delay, incidence azimuth, Doppler frequency, and complex amplitude of impinging waves in mobile radio environments. polarization. Effective channel model elaboration relies on The performance, i.e., high-resolution ability, accuracy, and a realistic characterization of the probability distribution of convergence rate of the scheme, is assessed in synthetic and the relevant channel parameters. This knowledge is gath- real macro- and pico-cellular channels. The results indicate ered experimentally from comprehensive data collected during that the scheme overcomes the resolution limitation inherent to extensive measurement campaigns. Hence, sophisticated, ac- classical techniques like the Fourier or beam-forming methods. In particular, it is shown that waves which exhibit an arbitrarily curate,