The invention provides a channel matrix and interference
covariance matrix estimation method suitable for an
MIMO-OFDM
system. The method is characterized in that based on a maximum
posterior probability rule, channel matrixes and interference
covariance matrixes on all sub-carriers are estimated in a combined mode. In detail, the method includes the steps that (1), by the adoption of a least square (LS) rule, the initial
estimation of the channel matrixes is obtained; (2), each interference
covariance matrix is expressed as a low-dimension matrix, by the utilization of the current
estimation value of the channel matrixes, the
posterior probability density function, about receive data, of the low-dimension matrixes is obtained, and the
posterior probability density function is maximized to obtain the
estimation of the interference
covariance matrix; (3), by the utilization of the estimation value of the interference covariance matrixes, the
posterior probability density function, about receive data, of the channel matrixes is obtained, and the
posterior probability density function is maximized to obtain the estimation of the channel matrixes; (4), the step2 and the step3 are performed in an iterative mode until convergence is performed. The method has the
advantage that according to the scheme, the estimation precision of the channel matrixes and the interference covariance matrixes can be effectively improved.