Abstract: A wireless communication system (100), method, and base station (112) are provided for optimizing performance of a base station receiver (120). The method includes selecting an interpolation matrix (216) specially tailored for particular channel characteristics from a pre-defined set of interpolation matrices (218), and using the selected interpolation matrix in the channel estimation, and applying the derived channel estimates for the data subcarriers to an equalizer (118) as a set of weights. The interpolation matrix (216) is selected by using the matrix corresponding to a received channel profile information, or by monitoring a performance metric (212) while using each interpolation matrix of a pre-defined set of matrices in the channel estimation and applying the derived channel estimates for the data subcarriers as a set of weights to the receiver equalizer (118) and selecting the matrix resulting in best performance.