Blind Channel Shortening for MIMO-OFDM System Using Zero Padding and Eigen Decomposition Approach

This paper deals with multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) broadband wireless communication systems, employing orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM). In order to exploit the benefits of OFDM in highly frequency-selective channels, without any significant increase in receiver complexity, a channel shortening prefilter is inserted at the receiver. The main aim of inserting channel shorteners is to shorten the channel so that the main energy of the composite channel is concentrated within a duration smaller than the guard interval inserted while transmission. Thus by including channel shortening equalizers at the receiver the inter symbol interference or the inter block interference can be suppressed. The new approach proposed in this thesis is zero padding approach with Eigen decomposition approach. The advantages of the proposed approaches include immunity to delay spread, resistance to frequency selective fading and simple equalization. This shortening design is a blind one, i.e., a priori knowledge of the MIMO channel impulse response to be shortened is not required, and can be carried out in closed-form.