## Estimation of UFMC Fading Channels Using Hinf Filter

2020-06-30
Jamoos, Ali
##### Publisher
Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology
##### Abstract
Universal filtered multi-carrier (UFMC) modulation is a very powerful candidate to be employed for future 5G mobile systems. It overcomes the limitations and restrictions in current modulation techniques employed in 4G mobile systems and supports future applications, such as machine-to-machine (M2M), device-to-device (D2D), and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. In this paper, we address the estimation of UFMC fading channels based on the comb-type pilot arrangement in the frequency domain. The basic solution is to estimate the fading channel based on the mean square error (MSE) or least square (LS) criteria with adaptive implementation using least mean square (LMS) or recursive least square (RLS) algorithms. However, these adaptive f lters seem not to be effective, as they cannot fully exploit fading channel statistics, particularly at high Doppler rates. To take advantage of these statistics, time-variations of the fading channel are modeled by an autoregressive process (AR), and are tracked by an Hinf fi lter. This, however, requires that AR model parameters be known, which are estimated by solving the Yule-Walker equation (YWE), based on the Bessel autocorrelation function (ACF) of the fading channel with a known Doppler rate. Results of Matlab simulations show that the proposed Hinf filter-based channel estimator is more effective when compared with existing estimators.
##### Keywords
5G, autoregressive model, channel estimation, fading channel, Hinf filter, UFMC