Channel acquisition using orthogonal time frequency space modulated pilot signals

1. A wireless communication method for recovering information bits from a received signal, implemented by a wireless communication receiver, comprising:

receiving a wireless signal comprising a data signal portion and a pilot signal portion wherein the pilot signal portion includes multiple pilot signals multiplexed together in an orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) domain;

performing two-dimensional channel estimation in a delay-Doppler domain based on an optimization criterion; and

recovering information bits using a channel estimate obtained from the two-dimensional channel estimation.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the performing the two-dimensional channel estimation includes:

identifying a subset of the pilot signal portion from which to obtain a preliminary channel estimate in the delay-Doppler domain;

estimating, using samples of the wireless signal received within a two-dimensional observation window, the preliminary channel estimate; and

obtaining the channel estimate by interpolating and/or predicting the preliminary channel estimate.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the preliminary channel estimate is estimated using all samples of the wireless signal.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the preliminary channel estimate is estimated using a subset of samples corresponding to less than all the samples of the wireless signal, depending on the preliminary channel estimate.

5. The method of claim 2 , wherein estimating operation includes calculating a finite impulse response (FIR) Wiener filter estimate using the subset of the pilot signal portion.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the optimization criterion comprises a minimum mean square error (MMSE) optimization criterion.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the optimization criterion is based on a two-dimensional spline function.

8. A wireless communication apparatus comprising a processor, wherein the processor is configured to implement a wireless communication reception method, the method comprising:

receiving a wireless signal comprising a data signal portion and a pilot signal portion, wherein the pilot signal portion includes multiple pilot signals multiplexed together in an orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) domain;

performing two-dimensional channel estimation in a delay-Doppler domain based on an optimization criterion; and

performing information bit recovery using a channel estimate obtained from the two-dimensional channel estimation.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the processor is configured, as part of the estimating the two-dimensional channel estimation, to:

identify a subset of the pilot signal portion from which to obtain a preliminary channel estimate in the delay-Doppler domain;

estimate, using samples of the wireless signal received within a two-dimensional observation window, the preliminary channel estimate; and

obtain the channel estimate by interpolating and/or predicting the preliminary channel estimate.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the processor is configured, as part of the estimating the preliminary channel estimate, to:

estimate the preliminary channel using all the samples of the wireless signal.

11. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the preliminary channel estimate is estimated using a subset of samples corresponding to less than all the samples of the wireless signal, depending on the preliminary channel estimate.

12. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein estimating operation includes calculating a finite impulse response (FIR) Wiener filter estimate using the subset of the pilot signal portion.

13. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the optimization criterion comprises a minimum mean square error (MMSE) optimization criterion.

14. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the optimization criterion is based on a two-dimensional spline function.

15. A wireless communication method for recovering information bits from a received signal, implemented by a wireless communication receiver, comprising:

receiving a wireless signal comprising a data signal portion and a pilot signal portion wherein the pilot signal portion includes multiple pilot signals multiplexed together in an orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) domain;

performing two-dimensional channel estimation in a time-delay domain based on an optimization criterion; and

recovering information bits using a channel estimate obtained from the two-dimensional channel estimation.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the performing the two-dimensional channel estimation includes:

identifying a subset of the pilot signal portion from which to obtain a preliminary channel estimate in the time-delay domain;

estimating, using samples of the wireless signal received within a two-dimensional observation window, the preliminary channel estimate; and

obtaining the channel estimate by interpolating and/or predicting the preliminary channel estimate.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the preliminary channel estimate is estimated using all the samples of the wireless signal.

18. The method of claim 16 , wherein the preliminary channel estimate is estimated using a subset of samples corresponding to less than all the samples of the wireless signal, depending on the preliminary channel estimate.

19. The method of claim 16 , wherein estimating operation includes calculating a finite impulse response (FIR) Wiener filter estimate using the subset of the pilot signal portion.

20. The method of claim 15 , wherein the optimization criterion comprises a minimum mean square error (MMSE) optimization criterion or a two-dimensional spline function.