Adaptive Channel Estimator Based on Least Mean Square Error for Wireless LAN

Author(s):  
Yongxue Wang
Author(s):  
Felipe Augusto Pereira de Figueiredo ◽  
Claudio Ferreira Dias ◽  
Eduardo Rodrigues de Lima ◽  
Gustavo Fraidenraich

Accurate channel estimation is of utmost importance for massive MIMO systems that allow providing significant improvements in spectral and energy efficiency. In this work, we investigate the spectral efficiency performance and present a channel estimator for multi-cell massive MIMO systems subjected to pilot-contamination. The proposed channel estimator performs well under moderate to aggressive pilot contamination scenarios without prior knowledge of the inter-cell large-scale channel coefficients and noise power. The estimator approximates the performance of a linear Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) as the number of antennas increases. Following, we derive a lower bound closed-form spectral efficiency of the Maximum Ratio Combining (MRC) detector in the proposed channel estimator. The simulation results highlight that the proposed estimator performance approaches the linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) channel estimator asymptotically.


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