Delay alignment modulation (DAM) is a promising technology to eliminate inter-symbol interference (ISI) without relying on sophisticated equalization or multi-carrier transmissions. The key ideas of DAM are delay pre-compensation and path based beamforming, so that the multi-path signal components will arrive at the receiver simultaneously and constructively, rather than causing the detrimental ISI. However, the practical implementation of DAM requires channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter side. Therefore, in this letter, we propose an efficient channel estimation method for DAM based on block orthogonal matching pursuit (BOMP) algorithm, by exploiting the block sparsity of the channel impulse response (CIR) vector. Based on the imperfectly estimated CSI, the delay pre-compensations and path-based beamforming are designed for DAM, and the resulting performance is studied. Simulation results demonstrate that with the proposed channel estimation method, the CSI can be effectively acquired with low training overhead, and the performance of DAM based on estimated CSI is comparable to the ideal case with perfect CSI.
翻译:延迟校正调制(DAM)是消除代号干扰(ISI)的有希望的技术,不依赖复杂的均衡或多载体传输。DAM的主要想法是延迟预先补偿和路径波束成形,以便多路信号组件能够同时和建设性地到达接收器,而不是造成有害的ISSI。然而,DAM的实际实施要求在发射方提供频道状态信息(CSI),因此,在本信中,我们建议,通过利用频道脉冲反应矢量的区块散射法,为DAM提供高效的频道估计方法。根据对CSI的不准确估计,为DAM设计了延迟事先补偿和路径波束成形,并研究了由此产生的性能。模拟结果表明,使用拟议的频道估计方法,CSI可以有效地获得低培训间接费用,而根据CSI估计的DAM的性能与理想的CSI相似。