Regularized MMSE ICI equalization for OFDM systems over doubly selective channels

Abstract

In this work, we consider a wireless OFDM system operating over doubly selective channels, where the Doppler effect destroys the orthogonality between subcarriers and hence, results into severe intercarrier interference (ICI). To mitigate this effect, computational demanding equalization schemes that require the inversion of the channel matrix, should be applied. In order to achieve linear complexity in the number of the subcarriers, a banded approximation of the channel matrix is usually adopted, whereas the performance of the equalizer is significantly degraded. To recover this performance loss, we propose a regularized estimation framework for MMSE ICI equalization in the frequency domain, where the complexity remains linear with respect to the number of the subcarriers. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed regularization.