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Diffusion-Based Noise-Adaptive Null-Space Channel Estimation for OFDM Systems
Jul 3, 2026
This paper proposes DANCE, a diffusion-based channel estimator for OFDM systems using a sparse linear inverse problem and a noise-adaptive posterior correction.
Introduces a noise-adaptive posterior correction to reduce pilot-noise injection in diffusion-based channel estimation
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Accurate channel estimation in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems remains challenging when demodulation reference signal (DMRS) observations are sparse and noisy, and when DMRS configurations vary across deployment scenarios. This paper proposes DANCE (Diffusion-based Noise-Adaptive Null-space Channel Estimation), a diffusion-based channel estimator for OFDM systems. We formulate DMRS-aided channel estimation as a sparse linear inverse problem whose measurement operator is induced by the pilot pattern. The resulting range-null space decomposition separates the measurement-constrained range-space component from the unobserved null-space component, which is reconstructed through a learned diffusion prior. To avoid directly imposing noisy pilot samples as exact constraints, DANCE introduces a noise-adaptive posterior correction into the reverse diffusion process. The correction coefficient and the residual sampling variance are jointly calibrated according to the observation noise level, thereby reducing pilot-noise injection while retaining useful measurement information. We further design a conditional U-Net denoiser for complex-valued OFDM channel grids, where the real and imaginary components are represented as separate feature channels and downsampling is performed only along the subcarrier dimension. Simulations based on 5G NR tapped delay line (TDL) and clustered delay line (CDL) channel models show that DANCE achieves consistently lower normalized mean squared error (NMSE) than conventional estimators and diffusion-based posterior sampling methods under different signal-to-noise ratios, DMRS configurations, Doppler frequency shifts, and train-test distribution mismatches.
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