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Presence of multiple antennas on both sides of a communication channel promises significant improvements in system throughput and power efficiency. In effect, a new class of large multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Maksym A. Girnyk , Mikko Vehkaperä , Lars K. Rasmussen

In this paper, we analyze pilot contamination (PC) attacks on a multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network with correlated pilots. We obtain correlated pilots using a user capacity-achieving pilot sequence design. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Noman Akbar , Shihao Yan , Asad Masood Khattak , Nan Yang

A wireless massive MIMO system entails a large number (tens or hundreds) of base station antennas serving a much smaller number of users, with large gains in spectral-efficiency and energy-efficiency compared with conventional MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Alexei Ashikhmin , Thomas L. Marzetta , Liangbin Li

We propose a novel algorithm to design user load-achieving pilot sequences that mitigate pilot contamination in multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks. To this end, we first derive expressions for the user load…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Noman Akbar , Nan Yang , Parastoo Sadeghi , Rodney A. Kennedy

Accurate multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel estimation is critical for next-generation wireless systems, enabling enhanced communication and sensing performance. Traditional model-based channel estimation methods suffer, however,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Seyed Alireza Javid , Nuria González-Prelcic

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems achieve high sum spectral efficiency by offering an order of magnitude increase in multiplexing gains. In time division duplexing systems, however, the reuse of uplink training pilots…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Geert Leus , Robert W. Heath

This paper considers channel estimation and system performance for the uplink of a single-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. Each receive antenna of the base station (BS) is assumed to be equipped with a pair of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Yongzhi Li , Cheng Tao , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Amine Mezghani , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Liu Liu

The pilot reuse issue in massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) antenna systems with interfering cells is closely examined. This paper considers scenarios where the ratio of the channel coherence time to the number of users in a cell may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Ji Yong Sohn , Sung Whan Yoon , Jaekyun Moon

The spectral efficiency (SE) of Massive MIMO (MaMIMO) systems is affected by low quality channel estimates. Rate-Splitting (RS) has recently gained some interest in multiuser multiple antenna systems as an effective means to mitigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Bruno Clerckx , Luca Sanguinetti , Dirk Slock

This paper considers the problem of pilot design for compressive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel estimation. In particular, we are interested in estimating the channels for multiple transmitters simultaneously when the pilot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-05 Peng Zhang , Lu Gan , Sumei Sun , Cong Ling

In theory coordinated multi-point transmission (CoMP) promises vast gains in spectral efficiency. But industrial field trials show rather disappointing throughput gains, whereby the major limiting factor is proper sharing of channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jan Schreck , Gerhard Wunder , Peter Jung

Pilot contamination is a critical issue in distributed massive MIMO networks, where the reuse of pilot sequences due to limited availability of orthogonal pilots for channel estimation leads to performance degradation. In this work, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Mohd Saif Ali Khan , Samar Agnihotri , Karthik R. M

Pilot contamination is known to be one of the main impairments for massive MIMO multi-cell communications. Inspired by the concept of fractional frequency reuse and by recent contributions on pilot reutilization among non-adjacent cells, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Italo Atzeni , Jesús Arnau , Mérouane Debbah

This paper addresses the intricate task of hybrid-field channel estimation in extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) systems, critical for the progression of 6G communications. Within these systems, comprising a line-of-sight (LoS) channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Yoonseong Kang , Hyowoon Seo , Wan Choi

This letter studies the pilot contamination (PC) problem for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks with coexisting terrestrial users and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Due to the strong line-of-sight (LoS) air-to-ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Rui Lu , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

This paper proposes a channel estimation method for hybrid wideband multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems in high-frequency bands, including millimeter-wave (mmWave) and sub-terahertz (sub-THz), in the presence of beam squint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Kabuto Arai , Koji Ishibashi

This paper develops a linear minimum mean-square error (LMMSE) channel estimator for single and multicarrier systems that takes advantage of the mutual coupling in antenna arrays. We model the mutual coupling through multiport networks and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Bamelak Tadele , Volodymyr Shyianov , Faouzi Bellili , Amine Mezghani

Massive multiple-input--multiple-output (MIMO) systems can suffer from coherent intercell interference due to the phenomenon of pilot contamination. This paper investigates a two-layer decoding method that mitigates both coherent and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Trinh Van Chien , Christopher Mollén , Emil Björnson

This paper proposes a deep learning-based channel estimation method for multi-cell interference-limited massive MIMO systems, in which base stations equipped with a large number of antennas serve multiple single-antenna users. The proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-02 Eren Balevi , Akash Doshi , Jeffrey G. Andrews

We investigate the effects of pilot assignment in multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output systems. When deploying a large number of antennas at base station (BS), and linear detection/precoding algorithms, the system performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-09 Jose Carlos Marinello , Cristiano Magalhaes Panazio , Taufik Abrao