Patent ID: 8311134

Claim:
A method for transmitting scattered pilot signals in a multi-carrier system, comprising: (a) in each time slot, in time dimension, putting each four OFDM symbols into a group according to an order of the OFDM symbols; (b) in each group of OFDM symbols, in frequency dimension, selecting, for each OFDM symbol, a plurality of valid sub-carriers to transmit scattered pilots, wherein for a same OFDM symbol, between each two valid sub-carriers selected, there are seven valid sub-carriers; for different OFDM symbols in a same group, the valid sub-carriers selected are interleaving in frequency domain; and (c) transmitting scattered pilot signals on the valid sub-carriers selected; wherein if the bandwidth of the physical layer in the multi-carrier system is 8 MHz; step (b) comprises: (b1) determining the serial number n of an OFDM symbol for transmitting scattered pilot signals in a time slot; ( b ⁢ ⁢ 2 ) ⁢ ⁢ if ⁢ ⁢ mod ⁡ ( n , 4 ) == 0 , m = { 8 ⁢ p + 1 , p = 0 , 1 , … ⁢ ⁢ 191 8 ⁢ p + 3 , p = 192 , 193 , … ⁢ ⁢ 383 ; ⁢ ⁢ if ⁢ ⁢ mod ⁢ ( n , 4 ) == 1 , m = { 8 ⁢ p + 5 , p = 0 , 1 , … ⁢ ⁢ 191 8 ⁢ p + 7 , p = 192 , 193 , … ⁢ ⁢ 383 ; ⁢ ⁢ if ⁢ ⁢ mod ⁢ ( n , 4 ) == 2 , m = { 8 ⁢ p + 3 , p = 0 , 1 , … ⁢ ⁢ 191 8 ⁢ p + 5 , p = 192 , 193 , … ⁢ ⁢ 383 ; ⁢ ⁢ if ⁢ ⁢ mod ⁢ ( n , 4 ) == 3 , m = { 8 ⁢ p + 7 , p = 0 , 1 , … ⁢ ⁢ 191 8 ⁢ p + 9 , p = 192 , 193 , … ⁢ ⁢ 383 ; wherein m indicates the frequency domain serial number of the valid sub-carriers selected to transmit scattered pilots.