Abstract: The invention concerns a multicarrier signal consisting of a temporal succession of symbols formed by a set of data elements, each of said data elements modulating a carrier frequency of said signal, the data elements comprising reference elements called pilots (20) whereof the value in transmission is known to at least one receiver designed to receive said signal and informative data elements (21-28), whereof the value in transmission is not known a priori to the or said receiver(s), one of said carrier frequencies modulated, at a given time, by one of said data elements, being called carrier. The invention is characterised in that it at least one constraint is imposed on the value of at least one of said informative data elements, so as to reduce, in reception, at least one term of interference affecting at least one of said pilots.

Abstract: A digital signal is organized in consecutive data trains each comprising a predetermined number of successive symbols, each of said data trains comprising at least two distinct reference blocks for the estimation of said channel, distributed among the useful symbols representing the source signal to be transmitted, each of said reference blocks being formed by at least one reference symbol known to the receiver and/or identifiable by said receiver. The reference symbols present in the reference blocks may be explicit reference symbols that are fixed and known a priori by said receiver and/or implicit reference symbols produced by the links generated between the useful symbols by an encoding operation. Also disclosed are channel estimation methods implementing an estimation-maximization algorithm and/or using a combination of predetermined basic functions, with a bandwidth greater than or equal to the Doppler power spectrum of said signal.