Low-Overhead Receiver Design for Data-Dependent Superimposed Training via Deep Learning
Abstract
Superimposed pilot (SIP) transmission improves spectral efficiency by eliminating the dedicated pilot overhead required in orthogonal pilot (OP)-based schemes. However, SIP suffers from severe pilot-data coupling, which leads to a critical performance-complexity bottleneck at the receiver. To address this issue, this paper proposes a low-overhead transmission framework that revitalizes data-dependent superimposed training (DDST) with enhanced interference mitigation strategies. First, for quasi-static block-fading channels, an enhanced DDST receiver is developed to achieve non-iterative pilot-data decoupling by exploiting data-dependent algebraic structures. Second, to overcome the sensitivity of conventional DDST to channel variations and symbol misidentification in fast time-varying environments, a mix transmission scheme is developed. By strategically applying DDST to a subset of resource elements, the proposed scheme combines the interference-free transmission property of OP with the zero-pilot-overhead advantage of SIP, thereby improving demapping reliability and interference suppression. Furthermore, under the proposed mix scheme, a Vision Transformer-based neural receiver is designed to capture the orthogonal structure between pilots and perturbation-bearing data, as well as the underlying channel correlations, thereby relaxing the stringent quasi-static assumption required for interference disentanglement. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves significant performance gains in the low-to-medium SNR regime under time-varying channels while providing superior computational efficiency compared with state-of-the-art SIP receivers.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.29995,
title = {Low-Overhead Receiver Design for Data-Dependent Superimposed Training via Deep Learning},
author = {Xinjie Li and Xingyu Zhou and Jing Zhang and Chao-Kai Wen and Xiao Li and Shi Jin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.29995},
year = {2026}
}