摘要
This paper studies wireless vehicular communication(VehCom)in intelligent transportation systems using an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing with index modulation(OFDM-IM).In the concept of IM,data is transmitted not only through the modulated symbols but also via the indices of the active subcarriers.In contrast to the original OFDM,OFDM-IM activates only non-zero subcarriers,increasing energy efficiency.However,the pilotassisted channel estimation(CE)method is a significant challenge in OFDM-IM,where the desired pilot subcarrier interval is related to the OFDM-IM subblock length.This paper proposes a walsh-scattered pilot-assisted CE for OFDM-IM VehCom.The optimum walsh-scattered pilot assignment is proposed to improve the transmission efficiency.Furthermore,a space-time block code with a high transmit diversity gain is employed for OFDM-IM VehCom to enhance VehCom's signal quality.The results show that the proposed method performs higher CE accuracy and better bit-error rate with significant spectral and energy efficiencies than conventional methods.
