ThispaperdescribesaLeastSquares(LS)channelestimationschemeforMIMOOFDMsystemsbasedontime-domaintrainingsequence.Wefirstcomputetheminimummeansquareerror(MSE)oftheLSchannelestimation,andthenderivetheoptimalcriteriaofthetrainingsequencewithrespecttotheminimumMSE.Itisshownthatoptimaltime-domaintrainingsequenceshouldsatisfytwocriteria.First,theautocorrelationofthesequencetransmittedfromthesameantennaisanimpulsefunctioninaregionlongerthanthechannelmaximumdelay.Second,thecross-correlationbetweensequencestransmittedfromdifferentantennasiszerointhisregion.Simulationresultsshowthattheestimatorusingoptimaltime-domaintrainingsequenceshasbetterperformancethanthatusingoptimalfrequencytrainingsequenceatlowsignal-to-noiseratio(SNR).Toreducethetrainingoverhead,asuboptimaltrainingsequenceisalsoproposed.Comparingwithoptimaltrainingsequence,ithaslowcomputationcomplexityandhightransmissionefficiencyattheexpenseoflittleperformancedegradation.
