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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

A large-scale MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system offers significant advantages in wireless communication, including potential spatial multiplexing and beamforming capabilities. However, channel estimation becomes challenging with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

In this paper, we investigate cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems in which access points (APs) are equipped with fluid antennas (FAs) and develop a comprehensive framework for channel estimation, antenna port selection, and uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Maryam Olyaee , Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi

We propose an iterative channel estimation algorithm based on the Least Square Estimation (LSE) and Sparse Message Passing (SMP) algorithm for the Millimeter Wave (mmWave) MIMO systems. The channel coefficients of the mmWave MIMO are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Chongwen Huang , Lei Liu , Chau Yuen , Sumei Sun

Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (massive MIMO) is a variant of multi-user MIMO in which the number of antennas at each Base Station (BS) is very large and typically much larger than the number of users simultaneously served. Massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

The increasing number of users leads to an increase in pilot overhead, and the limited pilot resources make it challenging to support all users using orthogonal pilots. By fully capturing the inherent physical characteristics of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Kaiyuan Tian , Yani Chi , Yufan Zhou , An Liu

This paper focuses on the minimum mean squared error (MMSE) channel estimator for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with one-bit quantization at the receiver side. Despite its optimality and significance in estimation theory,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Minhua Ding , Italo Atzeni , Antti Tölli , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Uplink channel estimation is a crucial component for the performance of cellular massive MIMO systems. However, when the number of user equipments (UEs) grows, the sharing of the available resources causes interference between UEs in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-19 Robbe Van Rompaey , Marc Moonen

Accurate channel estimation is essential to achieve the performance gains promised by the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in wireless communications. In the uplink of multi-user orthogonal frequency division multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Sumin Jeong , Arman Farhang , Nemanja Stefan Perović , Mark F. Flanagan

In this paper, the performance of uplink spectral efficiency in massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) over spacially correlated Ricean fading channel is presented. The maximum ratio combining (MRC) receiver is employed at the base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Juan Cao , Dongming Wang , Jiamin Li , Qiang Sun

We consider channel estimation within pulse-shaping multicarrier multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems transmitting over doubly selective MIMO channels. This setup includes MIMO orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Daniel Eiwen , Georg Tauboeck , Franz Hlawatsch , Hans Georg Feichtinger

A massive MIMO system entails a large number of base station antennas M serving a much smaller number of users. This leads to large gains in spectral and energy efficiency compared with other technologies. As the number of antennas M grows,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Ansuman Adhikary , Alexei Ashikhmin

We study downlink (DL) channel estimation in a multi-cell Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system operating in a time-division duplex. The users must know their effective channel gains to decode their received DL data signals.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Amin Ghazanfari , Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

The main purpose of this paper is to study the performance of two linear channel estimators for LTE Downlink systems, the Least Square Error (LSE) and the Linear Minimum Mean Square Error (LMMSE). As LTE is a MIMO-OFDM based system, a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-08 Abdelhakim Khlifi , Ridha Bouallegue

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

With the growing number of users in multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems, demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) are efficiently multiplexed in the code domain via orthogonal cover codes (OCC) to ensure orthogonality…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Jiawei Zhuang , Hongwei Hou , Minjie Tang , Wenjin Wang , Shi Jin , Vincent K. N. Lau

Phase noise correction is crucial to exploit full advantage of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) in modern high-data-rate communications. OFDM channel estimation with simultaneous phase noise compensation has therefore drawn…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Zhongju Wang , Prabhu Babu , Daniel P. Palomar

In time division duplexing (TDD) millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, downlink channel state information (CSI) can be obtained from uplink channel estimation thanks to channel reciprocity. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Binggui Zhou , Xi Yang , Shaodan Ma , Feifei Gao , Guanghua Yang

This paper is concerned with the channel estimation problem in millimetre wave (MMW) wireless systems with large antenna arrays. By exploiting the sparse nature of the MMW channel, we present an efficient estimation algorithm based on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Matthew Kokshoorn , Peng Wang , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

This paper is concerned with the channel estimation problem in Millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless systems with large antenna arrays. By exploiting the inherent sparse nature of the mmWave channel, we first propose a fast channel estimation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Matthew Kokshoorn , He Chen , Peng Wang , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic