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Large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) with high spectrum and energy efficiency is a very promising key technology for future 5G wireless communications. For large-scale MIMO systems, accurate channel state information (CSI)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Zhen Gao , Linglong Dai , Zhaocheng Wang

In this paper, we consider channel estimation problem in the uplink of filter bank multicarrier (FBMC) systems. We propose a pilot structure and a joint multiuser channel estimation method for FBMC. Opposed to the available solutions in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Hamed Hosseiny , Arman Farhang , Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) are expected to significantly enhance the spectrum efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE) of future cellular systems. Since the performance gain of massive MIMO is fundamentally limited by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Yuwei Ren , Yingzhe Li , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Yingmin Wang

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

In this paper, an interference cancellation based neural receiver for superimposed pilot (SIP) in multi-layer transmission is proposed, where the data and pilot are non-orthogonally superimposed in the same time-frequency resource.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Han Xiao , Wenqiang Tian , Shi Jin , Wendong Liu , Jia Shen , Zhihua Shi , Zhi Zhang

The pilot contamination in cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) must be addressed for accommodating a large number of users. In previous works, we have investigated a decontamination method called subspace projection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Noboru Osawa , Fabian Göttsch , Issei Kanno , Takeo Ohseki , Yoshiaki Amano , Kosuke Yamazaki , Giuseppe Caire

This paper presents a new approach to intra-cell pilot contamination in crowded massive MIMO scenarios. The approach relies on two essential properties of a massive MIMO system, namely near-orthogonality between user channels and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Jesper H. Sørensen , Elisabeth de Carvalho , Petar Popovski

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

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 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

Pilot contamination has been regarded as the main bottleneck in time division duplexing (TDD) multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The pilot contamination problem cannot be addressed with large-scale antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-10 Xun Zou , Hamid Jafarkhani

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

This letter focuses on the pilot contamination problem in the uplink and downlink of cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output networks with different degrees of cooperation between access points. The optimum minimum mean square…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Alberto Alvarez Polegre , Luca Sanguinetti , Ana Garcia Armada

We consider a cell-free wireless system operated in Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode with user-centric clusters of remote radio units (RUs). Since the uplink pilot dimensions per channel coherence slot is limited, co-pilot users might incur…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Fabian Göttsch , Noboru Osawa , Takeo Ohseki , Kosuke Yamazaki , Giuseppe Caire

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

Massive multiple-input multiple-output is a very important technology for future fifth-generation systems. However, massive massive multiple input multiple output systems are still limited because of pilot contamination, impacting the data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Qazwan Abdullah , Norsaliza Abdullah , Adeb Salh , Lukman Audah , Nabil Farah , Abbas Ugurenver , Abdu Saif

Pilot contamination problem in massive MIMO networks operating in time-division duplex (TDD) mode can limit their expected capacity to a great extent. This paper addresses this problem in cosine modulated multitone (CMT) based massive MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-20 Arman Farhang , Amir Aminjavaheri , Nicola Marchetti , Linda E. Doyle , Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny

In this work, we consider a 1-bit quantized massive MIMO channel with superimposed pilot (SP) scheme, dubbed QSP. With linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) channel estimator and maximum ratio combining (MRC) receiver at the BS, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-25 M. A. Teeti , Rui Wang , Reza Abdolee

The superimposed pilot transmission scheme offers substantial potential for improving spectral efficiency in MIMO-OFDM systems, but it presents significant challenges for receiver design due to pilot contamination and data interference. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Xinjie Li , Xingyu Zhou , Yixiao Cao , Jing Zhang , Chao-Kai Wen , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

This paper considers the large-scale fading precoding design for mitigating the pilot contamination in the downlink of multi-cell massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems. Rician fading with spatially correlated channels are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Özlem Tugfe Demir , Emil Björnson