Proposal of Channel Estimation Method for ITS systems by using STBC MIMO-OFDM

This paper proposes a new road-to-vehicle communication system for the future ITS by using the STBC MIMO-OFDM technique which can provide the safety and comfortable driving, and collection of variable information from the network in the realtime to the users on the vehicle. To realize the proposed STBC MIMO-OFDM system, it is required to estimate the channel frequency response at every symbol precisely in the time varying fading channel which is the typical operation conditions for the roadto-vehicle communications system. In this paper, we propose a novel channel estimation method by using the scattered pilots and null sub-carriers inserted into the data sub-carriers both in the frequency and time axes which enables the accurate channel estimation even in the higher time varying fading channel. From the computer simulation results, this paper demonstrates the effectiveness of proposed system which can achieve the higher transmission data rate with keeping the higher signal quality even under the higher mobile ITS environments.