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IEICE TRANS. FUNDAMENTALS, VOL.E91–A, NO.10 OCTOBER 2008 2787 PAPER Special Section on Information Theory and Its Applications Soft Decision Directed Channel Estimation with Interference Cancellation for a MIMO System Using Iterative Equalization and Decoding †a) † †† ††† Masatsugu HIGASHINAKA , Hiroshi KUBO , Akihiro OKAZAKI , Yasutaka OGAWA , Takeo OHGANE†††, and Toshihiko NISHIMURA†††, Members SUMMARY This paper proposes a novel channel estimation method munication is to use a wide frequency band. In this case, for iterative equalization in MIMO systems. The proposed method incor- however, multipath propagation causes sever inter-symbol porates co-channel interference (CCI) cancellation in the channel estima- interference (ISI) in data transmission and system perfor- tor and the channel estimation is successively performed with respect to each stream. Accuracy of channel estimation holds the key to be success- mance is degraded. In a mobile communication environ- fully converged the iterative equalization and decoding process. Although ment, the maximum multipath delay may reach tens of mi- the channel estimates can be re-estimated by means of LS (Least Square) croseconds [2], [3]. For example, in Evolved Universal channel estimation using tentative decisions obtained in the iterative pro- Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) [4], the sampling fre- cess, its performance is severely limited in a MIMO system because of