An efficient and reliable OFDM channel state estimator using deep learning convolutional neural networks

Hassan, Hassan A.; Mohamed, Mohamed A.; Essai, Mohamed H.; Esmaiel, Hamada; Mubarak, Ahmed S.; Omer, Osama A.

doi:10.21608/jesaun.2023.215113.1236

An efficient and reliable OFDM channel state estimator using deep learning convolutional neural networks

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Al-Azhar University, Qena 83513, Egypt.

² Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Aswan University, Abulrish 81542, Egypt.

10.21608/jesaun.2023.215113.1236

Abstract

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) wireless systems rely heavily on channel state estimation (CSE) to mitigate the effects of multipath channel fading. Achieving a high data rate with OFDM technology requires efficient CSE and accurate signal detection. In contrast to more traditional CSE methods that depend on a model-based strategy, machine learning (ML)-based CSE techniques have attracted increased interest in recent years due to their data-driven, learning-based flexibility. In light of this, a deep learning (DL) convolutional neural network (CNN) is utilized to acquire reliable CSE over OFDM wireless system Rayleigh-fading channels. The suggested CSE utilizes offline training to gather channel information from transmit/receive pairs. In addition, it employs pilots to provide additional guidance on channels of communication. Compared to conventional estimation approaches, the proposed CNN-based CSE shows considerable improvement in experimental results. Furthermore, the trained CNN model performs better than the state-of-the-art DL channel estimators. The simulation findings also confirm that the suggested CNN-based CSE is effective when there are fewer pilots, with/without cycle prefixes (CP), and this reduces the bandwidth required to convey the same quantity of data. In addition, there is no background knowledge of the channel's statistics in the proposed estimator. Consequently, the proposed method shows potential for addressing CSE issues in OFDM systems with a significant spectrum resource reduction.

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Main Subjects

Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Electrical power and machines engineering.

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