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Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication is a promising technology for increasing spectral efficiency in wireless networks. Two of the main challenges massive MIMO systems face are degraded channel estimation accuracy due…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Shahar S. Ioushua , Yonina C. Eldar

We address the problem of noise and interference corrupted channel estimation in massive MIMO systems. Interference, which originates from pilot reuse (or contamination), can in principle be discriminated on the basis of the distributions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Haifan Yin , Laura Cottatellucci , David Gesbert , Ralf R. Müller , Gaoning He

We introduce novel blind and semi-blind channel estimation methods for cellular time-division duplexing systems with a large number of antennas at each base station. The methods are based on the maximum a-posteriori principle given a prior…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-31 David Neumann , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

Pilot contamination in the uplink (UL) can severely degrade the channel estimation quality at the base station (BS) in a massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system. Thus, it is critical to explore all possible avenues to enable more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Xiliang Luo , Xiaoyu Zhang

Massive MIMO is, in general, severely affected by pilot contamination. As opposed to traditional detectors, we propose a group-blind detector that takes into account the presence of pilot contamination. While sticking to the traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Guido Carlo Ferrante , Giovanni Geraci , Tony Q. S. Quek , Moe Z. Win

In this paper, we look into the issue of intra-cell uplink (UL) pilot orthogonalization and schemes for mitigating the inter-cell pilot contamination with a realistic massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency-division…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Xiliang Luo , Xiaoyu Zhang , Hua Qian , Kai Kang

We consider a multi-cell massive MIMO system where a time-division duplex protocol is used to estimate the channel state information via uplink pilots. When maximum ratio combining (MRC) is used at the BSs, the re-use of pilots across cells…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Meysam Shahrbaf Motlagh , Subhajit Majhi , Patrick Mitran

Massive MIMO OFDM waveforms help support a large number of users in the same time-frequency resource and also provide significant array gain for uplink reception in cellular systems. However, channel estimation in such large antenna systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 P Aswathylakshmi , Radha Krishna Ganti

We consider the downlink of a multi-cell massive MIMO system suffering from asymptotic rate saturation due to pilot contamination. As opposed to treating pilot contamination interference as noise (TIN), we study the performance of decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Meysam Shahrbaf Motlagh , Subhajit Majhi , Patrick Mitran , Hideki Ochiai

Cell-free massive MIMO systems are currently being considered as potential enablers of future (6G) technologies for wireless communications. By combining distributed processing and massive MIMO, they are expected to deliver improved user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Raphael M. Guedes , José F. de Rezende , Valmir C. Barbosa

We consider a massive MIMO system based on Time Division Duplexing (TDD) and channel reciprocity, where the base stations (BSs) learn the channel vectors of their users via the pilots transmitted by the users in the uplink (UL). It is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

We consider the Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) downlink with maximum-ratio and zero-forcing processing and time-division duplex (TDD) operation. To decode, the terminals must know their instantaneous effective channel gain.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Hien Quoc Ngo , Erik G. Larsson

The focus of this letter is on the reduction of the large pilot overhead in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We propose a novel joint channel estimation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Danilo Lelin Li , Arman Farhang

Pilot contamination remains a major bottleneck in realizing the full potential of distributed massive MIMO systems. We propose two dynamic and scalable pilot assignment schemes designed for practical deployment in such networks. First, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Mohd Saif Ali Khan , Karthik RM , Samar Agnihotri

This paper proposes novel joint channel estimation and beamforming approach for multicell wideband massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems. Using our channel estimation and beamforming approach, we determine the number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-18 Tadilo Endeshaw Bogale , Long Bao Le , Xianbin Wang , Luc Vandendorpe

A subspace method for channel estimation has been recently proposed [1] for tackling the pilot contamination effect, which is regarded by some researchers as a bottleneck in massive MIMO systems. It was shown in [1] that if the power ratio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-15 Mohammed Teeti , Jun Sun , David Gesbert , Yingzhuang Liu

This paper proposes novel pilot optimization and channel estimation algorithm for the downlink multiuser massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system with $K$ decentralized single antenna mobile stations (MSs), and time division…

Applications · Statistics 2014-02-07 Tadilo Endeshaw Bogale , Long Bao Le

This paper proposes a novel joint channel estimation and beamforming approach for multicell wideband massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems. With the proposed channel estimation and beamforming approach, we determine the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Tadilo Endeshaw Bogale , Long Bao Le , Xianbin Wang , Luc Vandendorpe

Pilot contamination (PC) arises when the pilot sequences assigned to user equipments (UEs) are not mutually orthogonal, eventually due to their reuse. In this work, we propose a novel expectation propagation (EP)-based joint channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Christian Forsch , Zilu Zhao , Dirk Slock , Laura Cottatellucci

Single Input-Multiple Output (SIMO) systems are key enablers of high data rates in the next generation wireless communications. However in SIMO systems, channel estimation and equalization are challenging particularly in the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-09 K Sai Praneeth , P Aswathylakshmi , Radhakrishna Ganti