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We consider channel estimation for an uplink massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where the base station (BS) uses an array with low-resolution (1-2 bit) analog-to-digital converters and a spatial Sigma-Delta…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-15 Shilpa Rao , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Hessam Pirzadeh , Josef A. Nossek , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Existing beamforming-based full-duplex solutions for multi-antenna wireless systems often rely on explicit estimation of the self-interference channel. The pilot overhead of such estimation, however, can be prohibitively high in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Samuel Li , Ian P. Roberts

To glean the benefits offered by massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems, channel state information must be accurately acquired. Despite the high accuracy, the computational complexity of classical linear minimum mean squared error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Bin Li , Ziping Wei , Shaoshi Yang , Yang Zhang , Jun Zhang , Chenglin Zhao , Sheng Chen

Massive MIMO is a variant of multiuser MIMO where the number of base-station antennas $M$ is very large (typically 100), and generally much larger than the number of spatially multiplexed data streams (typically 10). Unfortunately, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

We consider joint channel estimation and faulty antenna detection for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems operating in time-division duplexing (TDD) mode. For systems with faulty antennas, we show that the impact of faulty…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Peng Zhang , Lu Gan , Cong Ling , Sumei Sun

The problem of blind channel estimation for SISO-OFDM systems using second-order statistics (SOS) is addressed. A comparison of two prominent SOS-based techniques: subspace-decomposition and precoding-induced correlation-averaging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Sameera Bharadwaja H. , D. K. Mehra

In frequency division duplex (FDD) massive MIMO systems, a major challenge lies in acquiring the downlink channel state information}\ (CSI) at the base station (BS) from limited feedback sent by the user equipment (UE). To tackle this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Rajesh Shrestha , Mingjie Shao , Mingyi Hong , Wing-Kin Ma , Xiao Fu

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 demonstrate that separating beamforming (i.e., downlink precoding and uplink combining) and channel estimation in multi-user MIMO wireless systems incurs no loss of optimality under general conditions that apply to a wide variety of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Lorenzo Miretti , Slawomir Stańczak , Giuseppe Caire

The problem of second-order statistics (SOS)-based blind channel estimation in OFDM systems is addressed in this paper. Almost all SOS-based methods proposed so far suffer from a complex-scalar estimation ambiguity, which is resolved by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-06 Sameera Bharadwaja H. , D. K. Mehra

This paper presents a mutual coupling based calibration method for time-division-duplex massive MIMO systems, which enables downlink precoding based on uplink channel estimates. The entire calibration procedure is carried out solely at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Joao Vieira , Fredrik Rusek , Ove Edfors , Steffen Malkowsky , Liang Liu , Fredrik Tufvesson

In this work, we propose two methods that utilize data symbols in addition to pilot symbols for improved channel estimation quality in a multi-user system, so-called semi-blind channel estimation. To this end, a subspace is estimated based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Franz Weißer , Nurettin Turan , Dominik Semmler , Wolfgang Utschick

In this article, deep learning is applied to estimate the uplink channels for mixed analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where a portion of antennas are equipped with high-resolution…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Shen Gao , Peihao Dong , Zhiwen Pan , Geoffrey Ye Li

Blind algorithms for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) signals interception have recently received considerable attention because of their important applications in modern civil and military communication fields. One key step in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Mohammad Rida Bahloul , Mohd Zuki Yusoff , Abdel-Haleem Abdel-Aty , M Naufal M Saad

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

In this letter, we consider the problem of channel estimation for large intelligent metasurface (LIM) assisted massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The main challenge of this problem is that the LIM integrated with a large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Zhen-Qing He , Xiaojun Yuan

This paper considers channel estimation and achievable rates for the uplink of a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where the base station is equipped with one-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). By rewriting the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yongzhi Li , Cheng Tao , Liu Liu , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Time-division duplex (TDD) based massive MIMO systems rely on the reciprocity of the wireless propagation channels when calculating the downlink precoders based on uplink pilots. However, the effective uplink and downlink channels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Orod Raeesi , Ahmet Gokceoglu , Mikko Valkama

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) enables the formation of narrow beams, effectively mitigating path loss in high-frequency communications. This capability makes the integration of wideband high-frequency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Peicong Zheng , Xuantao Lyu , Ye Wang , Yi Gong

In this paper, we study joint antenna activity detection, channel estimation, and multiuser detection for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with general spatial modulation (GSM). We first establish a double-sparsity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Xiaoyan Kuai , Xiaojun Yuan , Wenjing Yan , Hang Liu , Ying Jun , Zhang