Hybrid optimization-based pilot scheduling for reducing pilot contamination in massive MIMO systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (04) ◽  
pp. 2050028
Author(s):  
Ambala Pradeep Kumar ◽  
Tadisetty Srinivasulu
Keyword(s):  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Mimo System ◽  
Fitness Function ◽  
Scheduling Algorithm ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Spider Monkey ◽  
Achievable Rate ◽  
Pilot Contamination ◽  
Spider Monkey Optimization

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is an emerging technology used in next-generation cellular networks. The major challenge in the massive MIMO system is the pilot contamination. The contamination of the pilot sequences causes inaccurate channel estimation leading to huge errors in the transmissions. This paper proposes an approach for pilot contamination reduction in massive MIMO systems. In order to reduce the pilot contamination, a pilot scheduling algorithm is devised by proposing an optimization algorithm named Elephant-based Spider Monkey Optimization (ESMO) for scheduling the pilots. The proposed ESMO is designed by combining Elephant Herding Optimization (EHO) into Spider Monkey Optimization (SMO). The pilot scheduling approach employs proposed ESMO and user degradation for scheduling the pilots. Moreover, the optimal pilot scheduling is carried out using the newly devised fitness function that considers achievable rate using various user grouping parameters, such as utility function, and grouping parameter. Thus, the proposed ESMO-based pilot scheduling and fitness function are responsible for initiating optimal pilot scheduling. The performance of the proposed method is compared with the existing methods, and the proposed ESMO outperformed the existing methods with maximal achievable rate value of 39.257[Formula: see text]bps/Hz, and maximal SINR with value 118.75[Formula: see text]dB, respectively.

User grouping and optimization-based pilot scheduling for mitigating the pilot contamination in massive multi cell MIMO systems

2020 ◽  
pp. 2050057
Author(s):  
Ambala Pradeep Kumar ◽  
Tadisetty Srinivasulu
Keyword(s):  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Spider Monkey ◽  
Achievable Rate ◽  
Pilot Contamination ◽  
User Grouping ◽  
Spider Monkey Optimization ◽  
The Impact

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (massive MIMO) is a promising approach in wireless communication systems for providing improved link reliability and spectral efficiency and it helps several users. The main aim is to solve pilot contamination issue in massive MIMO systems; this research paper utilizes two approaches for reducing the contamination. This paper presents the user grouping approach based on sparse fuzzy C-means clustering (sparse FCM), which groups user parameters based on parameters such as large-scale fading factor, SINR, and user distance. Here, same pilot sequences are assigned to center users in which the impact of pilot contamination is limited, while the algorithm assigns orthogonal pilot sequences to the edge users that suffer severely from pilot contamination. Therefore, the proposed user grouping keeps away from the inappropriate grouping of users, enabling effective grouping even under the worst situations of the channel. Secondly, pilot scheduling is done based on elephant spider monkey optimization (ESMO), which is designed by integrating elephant herding optimization (EHO) into spider monkey optimization (SMO). The performance of pilot scheduling based on grouping-based ESMO is evaluated based on achievable rate and SINR. The proposed method achieves maximal achievable rate of 41.29[Formula: see text]bps/Hz and maximal SINR of 124.31[Formula: see text]dB.

scholarly journals Efficient Pilot Decontamination Schemes in 5G Massive MIMO Systems

Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar A. Saraereh ◽  
Imran Khan ◽  
Byung Moo Lee ◽  
Ashraf Tahat
Keyword(s):  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Path Loss ◽  
Achievable Rate ◽  
Pilot Contamination ◽  
User Grouping ◽  
Channel Conditions ◽  
Input Multiple Output

Massive Multiple-input Multiple-output (MIMO) is an emerging technology for the 5G wireless communication systems which has the potential to provide high spectral efficient and improved link reliability and accommodate large number of users. Aiming at the problem of pilot contamination in massive MIMO systems, this paper proposes two algorithms to mitigate it. The first algorithm is depending on the idea of Path Loss to perform User Grouping (PLUG) which divide the users into the center and edge user groups depending on different levels of pilot contamination. It assigns the same pilot sequences to the center users which slightly suffer from pilot contamination and assign orthogonal pilot sequences to the edge users which severely suffer from pilot contamination. It is assumed that the number of users at the edge of each cell is the same. Therefore, to overcome such limitations of PLUG algorithm, we propose an improved PLUG (IPLUG) algorithm which provides the decision parameters for user grouping and selects the number of central and edge users in each cell in a dynamic manner. Thus, the algorithm prevents the wrong division of users in good channel conditions being considered as an edge user which causes large pilot overhead, and also identifies the users with worst channel conditions and prevents the wrong division of such users from the center user group. The second algorithm for pilot decontamination utilizes the idea of pseudo-random codes in which orthogonal pilot are assigned to different cells. Such codes are deployed to get a transmission pilot by scrambling the user pilot in the cell. Since the pilot contamination is generated because different cells multiplex the same set of orthogonal pilots and the pseudo-random sequences have good cross-correlation characteristics, this paper uses this feature to improve the orthogonality of pilots between different cells. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithms can effectively improve channel estimation performance and achievable rate as compared with other schemes.

scholarly journals The Downlink Performance for Cell-Free Massive MIMO with Instantaneous CSI in Slowly Time-Varying Channels

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 1552
Author(s):  
Tongzhou Han ◽  
Danfeng Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Power Control ◽  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Mimo System ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Time Varying ◽  
Input Multiple Output ◽  
Efficiency Performance ◽  
A Cell ◽  
Time Varying Channel

In centralized massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, the channel hardening phenomenon can occur, in which the channel behaves as almost fully deterministic as the number of antennas increases. Nevertheless, in a cell-free massive MIMO system, the channel is less deterministic. In this paper, we propose using instantaneous channel state information (CSI) instead of statistical CSI to obtain the power control coefficient in cell-free massive MIMO. Access points (APs) and user equipment (UE) have sufficient time to obtain instantaneous CSI in a slowly time-varying channel environment. We derive the achievable downlink rate under instantaneous CSI for frequency division duplex (FDD) cell-free massive MIMO systems and apply the results to the power control coefficients. For FDD systems, quantized channel coefficients are proposed to reduce feedback overhead. The simulation results show that the spectral efficiency performance when using instantaneous CSI is approximately three times higher than that achieved using statistical CSI.

Precoding for Multiuser MIMO

2012 ◽  
pp. 130-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsadig Saeid ◽  
Varun Jeoti ◽  
Brahim Belhaouari Samir
Keyword(s):  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Mimo System ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Achievable Rate ◽  
Multiple Access Channels ◽  
Multiple Input ◽  
Input Multiple Output ◽  
Single User ◽  
A New Technique ◽  
Improved Technique

Future Wireless Networks are expected to adopt multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) systems whose performance is maximized by making use of precoding at the transmitter. This chapter describes the recent advances in precoding design for MU-MIMO and introduces a new technique to improve the precoder performance. Without claiming to be comprehensive, the chapter gives deep introduction on basic MIMO techniques covering the basics of single user multiple input multiple output (SU-MIMO) links, its capacity, various transmission strategies, SU-MIMO link precoding, and MIMO receiver structures. After the introduction, MU-MIMO system model is defined and maximum achievable rate regions for both MU-MIMO broadcast and MU-MIMO multiple access channels are explained. It is followed by critical literature review on linear precoding design for MU-MIMO broadcast channel. This paves the way for introducing an improved technique of precoding design that is followed by its performance evaluation.

scholarly journals Statistical Beamforming for Massive MIMO Systems with Distinct Spatial Correlations

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (21) ◽  
pp. 6255
Author(s):  
Taehyoung Kim ◽  
Sangjoon Park
Keyword(s):  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Mimo System ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
High Signal ◽  
Spatial Correlations ◽  
Channel Correlation ◽  
Low Correlation ◽  
Noise Ratio

In this paper, we propose a novel statistical beamforming (SBF) method called the partial-nulling-based SBF (PN-SBF) to serve a number of users that are undergoing distinct degrees of spatial channel correlations in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We consider a massive MIMO system with two user groups. The first group experiences a low spatial channel correlation, whereas the second group has a high spatial channel correlation, which can happen in massive MIMO systems that are based on fifth-generation networks. By analyzing the statistical signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio, it can be observed that the statistical beamforming vector for the low-correlation group should be designed as the orthogonal complement for the space spanned by the aggregated channel covariance matrices of the high-correlation group. Meanwhile, the spatial degrees of freedom for the high-correlation group should be preserved without cancelling the interference to the low-correlation group. Accordingly, a group-common pre-beamforming matrix is applied to the low-correlation group to cancel the interference to the high-correlation group. In addition, to deal with the intra-group interference in each group, the post-beamforming vector for each group is designed in the manner of maximizing the signal-to-leakage-and-noise ratio, which yields additional performance improvements for the PN-SBF. The simulation results verify that the proposed PN-SBF outperforms the conventional SBF schemes in terms of the ergodic sum rate for the massive MIMO systems with distinct spatial correlations, without the rate ceiling effect in the high signal-to-noise ratio region unlike conventional SBF schemes.

scholarly journals An Evaluation of Successive Pilot Decontamination in Massive MIMO

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Victor Croisfelt Rodrigues ◽  
Taufik Abrão
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Efficiency ◽  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Pilot Training ◽  
Pilot Contamination ◽  
Fundamental Issue ◽  
Data Rates ◽  
Multiple Input ◽  
Input Multiple Output

The demand for higher data rates can be satisfied by the spectral efficiency (SE) improvement offered by Massive multiple-input multiple-output (M-MIMO) systems. However, the pilot contamination remains as a fundamental issue to obtain the paramount SE in such systems. This propitiated the research of several methods to mitigate pilot contamination. One of these procedures is based on the coordination of the cells, culminating in proposals with multiple pilot training phases. This paper aims to expand the results of the original paper, whereby the concepts of large pilot training phases were offered. The evaluation of such method was conducted through more comprehensible numerical results, in which a large number of antennas were assumed and more rigorous SE expressions were used. The channel estimation approaches relying on multiple pilot training phases were considered cumbersome for implementation and an uninteresting solution to overcome pilot contamination; contradicting the results presented in the genuine paper.

scholarly journals An improvement to hybrid beamforming precoding scheme for mmWave massive MIMO systems based on channel matrix

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 285
Author(s):  
Zahra Amirifar ◽  
Jamshid Abouei
Keyword(s):  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Wireless Systems ◽  
Achievable Rate ◽  
Percentage Difference ◽  
Multiple Input ◽  
Input Multiple Output ◽  
Hybrid Beamforming ◽  
Mimo Technology

<p>The massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology has been applied innew generation wireless systems due to growing demand for reliability and high datarate. Hybrid beamforming architectures in both receiver and transmitter, includinganalog and digital precoders, play a significant role in 5G communication networksand have recently attracted a lot of attention. In this paper, we propose a simple andeffective beamforming precoder approach for mmWave massive MIMO systems. Wefirst solve an optimization problem by a simplification subject, and in the second step,we use the covariance channel matrixfCk=Cov(Hk)andBk=HkHHkinstead of chan-nel matrixHk. Simulation results verify that the proposed scheme can enjoy a highersum rate and energy efficiency than previous methods such as spatially sparse method,analog method, and conventional hybrid method even with inaccurate Channel StateInformation (CSI). Percentage difference of the achievable rate ofCk=Cov(Hk)andBk=HkHHkschemes compared to conventional methods are 2.51% and 48.94%, re-spectively.</p>

scholarly journals Channel Estimation for Frequency Division Duplexing Multi-user Massive MIMO Systems via Tensor Compressive Sensing

2017 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 668
Author(s):  
Qingzhu Wang ◽  
Mengying Wei ◽  
Yihai Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Channel Estimation ◽  
Compressive Sensing ◽  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Mimo System ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Data Representation ◽  
Frequency Division ◽  
Frequency Division Duplexing

<p class="p1">To make full use of space multiplexing gains for the multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output, accurate channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT) is required. However, the large number of users and antennas make CSIT a higher-order data representation. Tensor-based compressive sensing (TCS) is a promising method that is suitable for high-dimensional data processing; it can reduce training pilot and feedback overhead during channel estimation. In this paper, we consider the channel estimation in frequency division duplexing (FDD) multi-user massive MIMO system. A novel estimation framework for three dimensional CSIT is presented, in which the modes include the number of transmitting antennas, receiving antennas, and users. The TCS technique is employed to complete the reconstruction of three dimensional CSIT. The simulation results are given to demonstrate that the proposed estimation approach outperforms existing algorithms.</p>

scholarly journals Sum-Rate of Multi-User MIMO Systems with Multi-Cell Pilot Contamination in Correlated Rayleigh Fading Channel

Entropy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 573 ◽  
Author(s):  
Menghan Wang ◽  
Dongming Wang
Keyword(s):  
Rayleigh Fading ◽  
Gaussian Approximation ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Mimo System ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Moment Generating Function ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Pilot Contamination ◽  
Input Multiple Output ◽  
Sum Rate

This paper presents some exact results on the sum-rate of multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems subject to multi-cell pilot contamination under correlated Rayleigh fading. With multi-cell multi-user channel estimator, we give the lower bound of the sum-rate. We derive the moment generating function (MGF) of the sum-rate and then obtain the closed-form approximations of the mean and variance of the sum-rate. Then, with Gaussian approximation, we study the outage performance of the sum-rate. Furthermore, considering the number of antennas at base station becomes infinite, we investigate the asymptotic performance of the sum-rate. Theoretical results show that compared to MU-MIMO system with perfect channel estimation and no pilot contamination, the variance of the sum-rate of the considered system decreases very quickly as the number of antennas increases.

scholarly journals Pilot Decontamination Using Asynchronous Fractional Pilot Scheduling in Massive MIMO Systems

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (21) ◽  
pp. 6213
Author(s):  
Muhammad Irshad Zahoor ◽  
Zheng Dou ◽  
Syed Bilal Hussain Shah ◽  
Imran Ullah Khan ◽  
Sikander Ayub ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Mimo System ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Multiple Input ◽  
Input Multiple Output ◽  
Ideal Number ◽  
Sum Rate ◽  
Inter Cell Interference ◽  
Time Division

Due to large spectral efficiency and low power consumption, the Massive Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) became a promising technology for the 5G system. However, pilot contamination (PC) limits the performance of massive MIMO systems. Therefore, two pilot scheduling schemes (i.e., Fractional Pilot Reuse (FPR) and asynchronous fractional pilot scheduling scheme (AFPS)) are proposed, which significantly mitigated the PC in the uplink time division duplex (TDD) massive MIMO system. In the FPR scheme, all the users are distributed into the central cell and edge cell users depending upon their signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR). Further, the capacity of central and edge users is derived in terms of sum-rate, and the ideal number of the pilot is calculated which significantly maximized the sum rate. In the proposed AFPS scheme, the users are grouped into central users and edge users depending upon the interference they receive. The central users are assigned the same set of pilots because these users are less affected by interference, while the edge users are assigned the orthogonal pilots because these users are severely affected by interference. Consequently, the pilot overhead is reduced and inter-cell interference (ICI) is minimized. Further, results verify that the proposed schemes outperform the previous proposed traditional schemes, in terms of improved sum rates.

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