scholarly journals Angular Domain Data-Assisted Channel Estimation for Pilot Decontamination in Massive MIMO

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Yihenew Beyene ◽  
Kalle Ruttik ◽  
Riku Jäntti
Keyword(s):  
Channel Estimation ◽  
Antenna Arrays ◽  
Mean Squared Error ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Mimo System ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Pilot Contamination ◽  
Angular Domain ◽  
Matrix Estimation ◽  
Minimum Mean Squared Error

Massive Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (M-MIMO) system is a promising technology that offers to mobile networks substantial increase in throughput. In Time-Division Duplexing (TDD), the uplink training allows a Base Station (BS) to acquire Channel State Information (CSI) for both uplink reception and downlink transmission. This is essential for M-MIMO systems where downlink training pilots would consume large portion of the bandwidth. In densely populated areas, pilot symbols are reused among neighboring cells. Pilot contamination is the fundamental bottleneck on the performance of M-MIMO systems. Pilot contamination effect in antenna arrays can be mitigated by treating the channel estimation problem in angular domain where channel sparsity can be exploited. In this paper, we introduce a codebook that projects the channel into orthogonal beams and apply Minimum Mean-Squared Error (MMSE) criterion to estimate the channel. We also propose data-aided channel covariance matrix estimation algorithm for angular domain MMSE channel estimator by exploiting properties of linear antenna array. The algorithm is based on simple linear operations and no matrix inversion is involved. Numerical results show that the algorithm performs well in mitigating pilot contamination where the desired channel and other interfering channels span overlapping angle-of-arrivals.

scholarly journals Energy Efficiency Augmentation in Massive MIMO Systems through Linear Precoding Schemes and Power Consumption Modeling

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Rao Muhammad Asif ◽  
Jehangir Arshad ◽  
Mustafa Shakir ◽  
Sohail M. Noman ◽  
Ateeq Ur Rehman
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Antenna Arrays ◽  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Mimo System ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Total Power ◽  
Minimum Mean Squared Error

Massive multiple-input multiple-output or massive MIMO system has great potential for 5th generation (5G) wireless communication systems as it is capable of providing game-changing enhancements in area throughput and energy efficiency (EE). This work proposes a realistic and practically implementable EE model for massive MIMO systems while a general and canonical system model is used for single-cell scenario. Linear processing schemes are used for detection and precoding, i.e., minimum mean squared error (MMSE), zero-forcing (ZF), and maximum ratio transmission (MRT/MRC). Moreover, a power dissipation model is proposed that considers overall power consumption in uplink and downlink communications. The proposed model includes the total power consumed by power amplifier and circuit components at the base station (BS) and single antenna user equipment (UE). An optimal number of BS antennas to serve total UEs and the overall transmitted power are also computed. The simulation results confirm considerable improvements in the gain of area throughput and EE, and it also shows that the optimum area throughput and EE can be realized wherein a larger number of antenna arrays at BS are installed for serving a greater number of UEs.

scholarly journals Capacity Analysis of Lattice Reduction Aided Equalizers for Massive MIMO Systems

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 301
Author(s):  
Samarendra Nath Sur ◽  
Rabindranath Bera ◽  
Akash Kumar Bhoi ◽  
Mahaboob Shaik ◽  
Gonçalo Marques
Keyword(s):  
Channel Capacity ◽  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Mean Squared Error ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Mimo System ◽  
Correlation Effect ◽  
Performance Comparison ◽  
Lattice Reduction ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Minimum Mean Squared Error

Massive multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) systems are the future of the communication system. The proper design of the MIMO system needs an appropriate choice of detection algorithms. At the same time, Lattice reduction (LR)-aided equalizers have been well investigated for MIMO systems. Many studies have been carried out over the Korkine–Zolotareff (KZ) and Lenstra–Lenstra–Lovász (LLL) algorithms. This paper presents an analysis of the channel capacity of the massive MIMO system. The mathematical calculations included in this paper correspond to the channel correlation effect on the channel capacity. Besides, the achievable gain over the linear receiver is also highlighted. In this study, all the calculations were further verified through the simulated results. The simulated results show the performance comparison between zero forcing (ZF), minimum mean squared error (MMSE), integer forcing (IF) receivers with log-likelihood ratio (LLR)-ZF, LLR-MMSE, KZ-ZF, and KZ-MMSE. The main objective of this work is to show that, when a lattice reduction algorithm is combined with the convention linear MIMO receiver, it improves the capacity tremendously. The same is proven here, as the KZ-MMSE receiver outperforms its counterparts in a significant margin.

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 FDD Channel Estimation Via Covariance Estimation in Wideband Massive MIMO Systems

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 930
Author(s):  
José P. González-Coma ◽  
Pedro Suárez-Casal ◽  
Paula M. Castro ◽  
Luis Castedo
Keyword(s):  
Channel Estimation ◽  
Covariance Matrix ◽  
Mean Squared Error ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Channel Structure ◽  
Spatial Covariance ◽  
Large Bandwidth ◽  
Minimum Mean Squared Error ◽  
Large Channel

A method for channel estimation in wideband massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output systems using hybrid digital analog architectures is developed. The proposed method is useful for Frequency-Division Duplex at either sub-6 GHz or millimeter wave frequency bands and takes into account the beam squint effect caused by the large bandwidth of the signals. To circumvent the estimation of large channel vectors, the posed algorithm relies on the slow time variation of the channel spatial covariance matrix, thus allowing for the utilization of very short training sequences. This is possibledue to the exploitation of the channel structure. After identifying the channel covariance matrix, the channel is estimated on the basis of the recovered information. To that end, we propose a novel method that relies on estimating the tap delays and the gains as sociated with each path. As a consequence, the proposed channel estimator achieves low computational complexity and significantly reduces the training overhead. Moreover, our numerical simulations show better performance results compared to the minimum mean-squared error solution.

scholarly journals Performance Analysis of 3D Massive MIMO Cellular Systems with Collaborative Base Station

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingwang Li ◽  
Lihua Li ◽  
Ling Xie ◽  
Xin Su ◽  
Ping Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Lower Bound ◽  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Mimo System ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Cellular Systems ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Pilot Contamination ◽  
3D Mimo ◽  
Sum Rate

Massive MIMO have drawn considerable attention as they enable significant capacity and coverage improvement in wireless cellular network. However, pilot contamination is a great challenge in massive MIMO systems. Under this circumstance, cooperation and three-dimensional (3D) MIMO are emerging technologies to eliminate the pilot contamination and to enhance the performance relative to the traditional interference-limited implementations. Motivated by this, we investigate the achievable sum rate performance of MIMO systems in the uplink employing cooperative base station (BS) and 3D MIMO systems. In our model, we consider the effects of both large-scale and small-scale fading, as well as the spatial correlation and indoor-to-outdoor high-rise propagation environment. In particular, we investigate the cooperative communication model based on 3D MIMO and propose a closed-form lower bound on the sum rate. Utilizing this bound, we pursue a “large-system” analysis and provide the asymptotic expression when the number of antennas at the BS grows large, and when the numbers of antennas at transceiver grow large with a fixed ratio. We demonstrate that the lower bound is very tight and becomes exact in the massive MIMO system limits. Finally, under the sum rate maximization condition, we derive the optimal number of UTs to be served.

scholarly journals Dynamically Subarray-Connected Hybrid Precoding Scheme for Multiuser Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Guangyan Liao ◽  
Feng Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Millimeter Wave ◽  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Mean Squared Error ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Hybrid Precoding ◽  
Minimum Mean Squared Error ◽  
Specific Subset ◽  
Input Multiple Output

Hybrid precoding is widely used in millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. However, most prior work on hybrid precoding focused on the fully connected hybrid architectures and the subconnected but fixed architectures in which each radio frequency (RF) chain is connected to a specific subset of the antennas. The limited work shows that dynamic subarray architectures address the tradeoff between achievable spectral efficiency and energy efficiency of mmWave massive MIMO systems. Nevertheless, in the multiuser hybrid precoding systems, the existing dynamic subarray schemes ignore the fairness of users and the problem of user selection. In this paper, we propose a novel multiuser hybrid precoding scheme for dynamic subarray architectures. Firstly, we select a multiuser set among all users according to the analog effective channel information of the base station (BS) and then design the subset of the antennas to each RF by the fairness antenna-partitioning algorithm. Finally, the optimal analog precoding vector is designed according to each subarray, and the digital precoding is designed by the minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) criterion. The simulation results show that the performance advantages of the proposed multiuser hybrid precoding scheme for dynamic subarray architectures.

scholarly journals Precise Channel Estimation Approach for a mmWave MIMO System

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prateek Saurabh Srivastav ◽  
Lan Chen ◽  
Arfan Haider Wahla
Keyword(s):  
Channel Estimation ◽  
Mean Squared Error ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Mimo System ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Low Rank ◽  
High Signal ◽  
Formidable Challenge ◽  
Input Multiple Output ◽  
Efficient Recovery

Channel estimation is a formidable challenge in mmWave Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems due to the large number of antennas. Therefore, compressed sensing (CS) techniques are used to exploit channel sparsity at mmWave frequencies to calculate fewer dominant paths in mmWave channels. However, conventional CS techniques require a higher training overhead for efficient recovery. In this paper, an efficient extended alternation direction method of multipliers (Ex-ADMM) is proposed for mmWave channel estimation. In the proposed scheme, a joint optimization problem is formulated to exploit low rank and channel sparsity individually in the antenna domain. Moreover, a relaxation factor is introduced which improves the proposed algorithm’s convergence. Simulation experiments illustrate that the proposed algorithm converges at lower Normalized Mean Squared Error (NMSE) with improved spectral efficiency. The proposed algorithm also ameliorates NMSE performance at low, mid and high Signal to Noise (SNR) ranges.

scholarly journals Grouping-Based Channel Estimation and Tracking for Millimeter Wave Massive MIMO Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Rui Yin ◽  
Xin Zhou ◽  
Wei Qi ◽  
Celimuge Wu ◽  
Yunlong Cai
Keyword(s):  
Computational Complexity ◽  
Channel Estimation ◽  
Millimeter Wave ◽  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Mimo System ◽  
Closed Form Solution ◽  
Network Capacity ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Estimation Accuracy

Although the millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) system can potentially boost the network capacity for future communications, the pilot overhead of the system in practice will greatly increase, which causes a significant decrease in system performance. In this paper, we propose a novel grouping-based channel estimation and tracking approach to reduce the pilot overhead and computational complexity while improving the estimation accuracy. Specifically, we design a low-complexity iterative channel estimation and tracking algorithm by fully exploiting the sparsity of mmWave massive MIMO channels, where the signal eigenvectors are estimated and tracked based on the received signals at the base station (BS). With the recovered signal eigenvectors, the celebrated multiple-signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm can be employed to estimate the direction of arrival (DoA) angles and the path amplitude for the user terminals (UTs). To improve the estimation accuracy and accelerate the tracking speed, we develop a closed-form solution for updating the step-size in the proposed iterative algorithm. Furthermore, a grouping method is proposed to reduce the number of sharing pilots in the scenario of multiple UTs to shorten the pilot overhead. The computational complexity of the proposed algorithm is analyzed. Simulation results are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed schemes in terms of the estimation accuracy, tracking speed, and overhead reduction.

scholarly journals Semi-blind channel estimation based on Modified CMA and unitary scrambling for massive MIMO systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noura Sellami ◽  
Mohamed Siala
Keyword(s):  
Channel Estimation ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Pilot Contamination ◽  
Constant Modulus Algorithm ◽  
Unitary Matrices ◽  
Channel Estimator ◽  
Blind Channel ◽  
Input Multiple Output

Abstract Pilot contamination is one of the main impairments in multi-cell massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems. In order to improve the channel estimation in this context, we propose to use a semi-blind channel estimator based on the constant modulus algorithm (CMA). We consider an enhanced version of the CMA namely the Modified CMA (MCMA) which modifies the cost function of the CMA algorithm to the sum of cost functions for real and imaginary parts. Due to pilot contamination, the channel estimator may estimate the channel of a contaminating user instead of that of the user of interest (the user for which the Base Station wants to estimate the channel and then the data). To avoid this, we propose to scramble the users sequences before transmission. We consider different methods to perform unitary scrambling based on rotating the transmitted symbols (one Dimensional (1-D) scrambling) and using unitary matrices (two-Dimensional (2-D) scrambling). At the base station, the received sequence of the user of interest is descrambled leading to a better convergence of the channel estimator. We also consider the case where the Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) protocol is used. In this case, using scrambling leads to a significant gain in terms of BLock Error Rate (BLER) due to the change of the contaminating users data from one transmission to another induced by scrambling.

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