The invention relates to a channel
estimation method based on a
cell reference
signal in an LTE-A
system, and belongs to the technical field of the mobile communication. The method specifically comprises the following steps: S1, performing
pilot frequency extraction on all receiving signals according to a
cell reference
signal mapping rule to obtain the receiving
signal at a CRS, and finishing theLS
estimation by using the receiving signal and the local
pilot frequency signal; S2, performing interpolation through an obtained
pilot frequency channel
estimation value to increase the virtual pilot frequency, thereby doubling the pilot frequency; S3, estimating a channel
delay parameter and a signal-to-
noise ratio by using the channel estimation value at the pilot frequency
subcarrier; S4, selecting a corresponding
interpolation matrix W from an LMMSE
frequency domain interpolation matrix storage unit according to an
estimation result; S5, reading a W matrix from the
frequency domain interpolation, and estimating an OFDM symbol channel estimation value containing the pilot frequency according to the formula as shown in description by using a
frequency domain sliding window; and S6, performing
time domain linear interpolation to obtain the channel response estimation value of all sub-carriers. Therefore, the good compromise between the
algorithm performance and the complexity is realized.