Channel estimation under asynchronous packet interference

This paper investigates the placement of training symbols within the data packets of a wireless system in which transmissions are subject to asynchronous interference. The minimum mean square error of the training-based channel estimator is expressed as a function of the Fisher information of the received signal. It is shown that the placement that minimizes the minimum mean square error should be searched for within a set containing half as many elements as the number of training symbols in the packet. Furthermore, a lower bound on the minimum mean square error is derived and analyzed. It is shown that this bound is tight when the power of the interference is high. The placement of the training symbols in two clusters of equal or quasiequal length at the two edges of the data packet minimizes the lower bound for all values of the parameters and, thus, gives the solution of the problem for high values of the interference power. The influence of the training symbols placement on the data transmission performance is also investigated.

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