In very high data-rate wireless application scenarios, Multicarrier code-division multiple access (MC-CDMA) systems including Serial-to-parallel (S/P) converting operation are more applicable. We name them as modified MC-CDMA systems. In this paper, we focus on the blind channel estimation problem of these modified MC-CDMA systems on uplink. Because we can regard each subcarrier in multicarrier communications as a channel, the modified MC-CDMA system accordingly can become a multichannel system. Upon this understanding, we model the multiuser modified MC-CDMA system as a Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. Successively, based on subspace decomposition technique, we derive a novel blind estimation scheme of uplink channels for multiuser modified MC-CDMA systems. Furthermore, based on perturbation techniques, we derive the analytical approximation of the Mean-squared error (MSE) of this blind channel estimation scheme. Extensive computer simulations illustrate the performance of the proposed algorithm, and simulation results also verify the tightness of the MSE approximation.
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