Analysis and Optimization of Pilot-Symbol-Assisted M-PSK for OFDM Systems

The current analysis focuses on the influence of demodulation performance in multipath fading propagation environments, which results from the pilot power variation of pilot symbol assisted modulation M-PSK in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems. The pilot-to-data power ratio is optimized analytically, and the loss due to imperfect channel estimation is calculated. Theoretical and simulation results show that the optimum pilot-to-data power ratio is affected by the signal-to-noise ratio, Doppler frequency and interpolation size etc. Once the optimization parameter of pilot-to-data power ratio is used, system transmission power is minimum while still meeting the fixed bit error rate target.