Patent ID: 10057087

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention provide a channel estimation method, a communications node, and a communications system. The method includes: obtaining a preamble in a signal packet sent by a first communications node, where the preamble includes at least a first field and a second field, a subcarrier of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing OFDM symbol of the first field is used to carry a first reference signal, the first reference signal is a predetermined signal that is known to both a second communications node and the first communications node, a subcarrier of an OFDM symbol of the second field is used to carry useful information, and the useful information is physical layer control information and/or data; and obtaining, by using the first field and the second field, a first channel estimate, of each spatial flow, on all subcarriers of a multiple-input multiple-output transmission frequency band.