The invention relates to an upstream channel
estimation method and an upstream channel
estimation system suitable for an LTE (Long Term Evolution)-Advanced
system. The upstream channel
estimation method comprises the steps of extracting
pilot frequency
subcarrier information on a receiving antenna, and carrying out conjugate multiplying on the
pilot frequency
subcarrier information and a local
pilot frequency of a first layer to obtain a
frequency domain channel coefficient of all transport
layers subjected to
aliasing; according to the length of a
subcarrier, adding a virtual subcarrier with a corresponding length at the
tail of a
primary channel coefficient; carrying out IDFT (
Inverse Discrete Fourier Transform) calculation, and transforming to a
time domain; adding a window in the
time domain, because
dislocation of a
time domain impulse response of each
transport layer occurs on the time domain, separating time domain impulse responses of different transport
layers, and carrying out time domain
cyclic shift to obtain a time domain
impulse response corresponding to each
transport layer; and carrying out DFT (Discrete Fourier Transformation) calculation on the time domain
impulse response of each
transport layer, transforming to the
frequency domain, and removing the virtual subcarrier at the
tail to obtain a
frequency domain equivalent channel estimation matrix of each transport layer corresponding to the receiving antenna. With the adoption of the upstream channel estimation method and the upstream channel estimation
system, the channel estimation problem after
MIMO (
Multiple Input Multiple Output) is introduced into the LTE-A upstream can be effectively solved, and the channel estimation accuracy is also improved; and the method is also suitable for an LTE system.