Full MIMO Channel Estimation Using A Simple Adaptive Partial Feedback Method

Partial feedback in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems provides tremendous capacity gain and enables the transmitter to exploit channel condition and to eliminate channel interference. In the case of severely limited feedback, constructing a quantized partial feedback is an important issue. To reduce the computational complexity of the feedback system, in this paper we introduce an adaptive partial method in which at the transmitter, an easy to implement least square adaptive algorithm is engaged to compute the channel state information. In this scheme at the receiver, the time varying step-size is replied to the transmitter via a reliable feedback channel. The transmitter iteratively employs this feedback information to estimate the channel weights. This method is independent of the employed space-time coding schemes and gives all channel components. Simulation examples are given to evaluate the performance of the proposed method.