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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

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

With the large number of antennas and subcarriers the overhead due to pilot transmission for channel estimation can be prohibitive in wideband massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. This can degrade the overall spectral…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Deniz Gunduz

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) enjoys great advantage in 5G wireless communication systems owing to its spectrum and energy efficiency. However, hundreds of antennas require large volumes of pilot overhead to guarantee…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 An Chen , Wenbo Xu , Liyang Lu , Yue Wang

We propose a pilot-data transmission overlay scheme for multipair massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relaying systems employing either half- or full-duplex (HD or FD) communications at the relay station (RS). In the proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Leyuan Pan , Yongyu Dai , Wei Xu , Xiaodai Dong

In multi-cell massive MIMO systems, channel estimation is deteriorated by pilot contamination and the effects of pilot contamination become more severe due to hardware impairments. In this paper, we propose a joint pilot design and channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-11 Byungju Lim , Won Joon Yun , Joongheon Kim , Young-Chai Ko

This paper proposes a spatially common sparsity based adaptive channel estimation and feedback scheme for frequency division duplex based massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems, which adapts training overhead and pilot design to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Zhen Gao , Linglong Dai , Zhaocheng Wang , Sheng Chen

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

In this paper, we consider a joint unicast and multi-group multicast cell-free distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, while accounting for co-pilot assignment strategy based channel estimation, pilot contamination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Jiamin Li , Qijun Pan , Zhenggang Wu , Pengcheng Zhu , Dongming Wang , Xiaohu You

We consider a multi-cell massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system with correlated Rayleigh fading channels, where pilot reuse is permitted within each cell (to reduce pilot overhead), and each base station (BS) utilizes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Masoud Elyasi , Azadeh Vosoughi

Since the beam squint and near-field effects both inherently exist in upper-6 GHz (U6G) extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems, wideband near-field channel estimation faces severe challenges, such as higher…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Zhizheng Lu , Yu Han , Xiao Li , Shi Jin , Michail Matthaiou

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

Application of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems to frequency division duplex (FDD) is challenging mainly due to the considerable overhead required for downlink training and feedback. Channel extrapolation, i.e.,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Thomas Choi , François Rottenberg , Jorge Gomez-Ponce , Akshay Ramesh , Peng Luo , Jianzhong Zhang , Andreas F. Molisch

Base stations with a large number of transmit antennas have the potential to serve a large number of users at high rates. However, the receiver processing in the uplink relies on channel estimates which are known to suffer from pilot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Narayanan Krishnan , Roy D. Yates , Narayan B. Mandayam

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

This paper proposes a closed-loop sparse channel estimation (CE) scheme for wideband millimeter-wave hybrid full-dimensional multiple-input multiple-output and time division duplexing based systems, which exploits the channel sparsity in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Anwen Liao , Zhen Gao , Hua Wang , Sheng Chen , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Hao Yin

Massive multiple-input multiple-output - orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) systems face the challenge of high channel acquisition overhead while providing significant spectral efficiency (SE). Adjustable phase shift…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Yu Zhao , Li You , Jinke Tang , Mengyu Qian , Bin Jiang , Xiang-Gen Xia , Xiqi Gao

Cell-free massive MIMO communications is an emerging network technology for 5G wireless communications wherein distributed multi-antenna access points (APs) serve many users simultaneously. Most prior work on cell-free massive MIMO systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Asmaa Abdallah , Mohammad M. Mansour

Massive MIMO brings both motivations and challenges to develop the 5th generation Mobile wireless technology. The promising number of users and the high bitrate offered per unit area are challenged by uplink pilot contamination due to pilot…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Ahmad Abboud , Jean-Pierre Cances , Ali H. Jaber , Vahid Meghdadi

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