The application belongs to the field of
OFDM channel estimation, and relates to a data-assisted short-wave OFDM sparse channel Turbo iteration
estimation method, which comprises the following steps: S1, receiving a
signal transmitted through a channel and
processing the
signal to obtain a receiving end symbol matrix Y; S2, performing channel
estimation and
equalization on Y to obtain an estimated channel and an OFDM
signal pair, and performing Turbo iteration on the estimated channel and the OFDM signal pair to obtain a symbol variance; S3, selecting a virtual
pilot in the signal according to the symbol variance; S4, performing channel
estimation and
equalization on Y according to the virtual
pilot to obtain a current estimated channel and an OFDM signal; S5, performing Turbo iteration on the signal to obtain a current symbol variance; and S6, if a preset maximum iteration number is reached, obtaining a final estimated channel; otherwise, returning to step S3 to select a virtual
pilot in the signal according to the symbol variance; and the application selects a virtual pilot in the signal according to the symbol variance, and uses the virtual pilot to perform estimation again, so that the spectral
utilization rate is improved and the channel estimation performance is improved.