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Pilot contamination is a critical issue in distributed massive MIMO networks, where the reuse of pilot sequences due to limited availability of orthogonal pilots for channel estimation leads to performance degradation. In this work, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Mohd Saif Ali Khan , Samar Agnihotri , Karthik R. M

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

This paper introduces a hybrid pilot-aided channel estimation technique for mitigating the effect of pilot contamination for the uplink of multi-cell multiuser massive MIMO systems. The proposed hybrid pilot is designed such that it enjoys…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Jiaming Li , Chau Yuen , Dong Li , Han Zhang , Xianda Wu

Millimeter wave offers high bandwidth for air-to-air (A2A) communication. In this paper, we evaluate the rate performance of a multiuser MIMO (MU-MIMO) configuration where several aircraft communicate with a central hub. We consider a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-01 Travis Cuvelier , Robert W. Heath

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

In this paper, superimposed pilots are introduced as an alternative to time-multiplexed pilot and data symbols for mitigating pilot contamination in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We propose a non-iterative scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Karthik Upadhya , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Mikko Vehkapera

In this paper, we develop a low-complexity channel estimation for hybrid millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, where the number of radio frequency (RF) chains is much less than the number of antennas equipped at each transceiver. The proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Lou Zhao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

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

Massive MIMO communication systems, by virtue of utilizing very large number of antennas, have a potential to yield higher spectral and energy efficiency in comparison with the conventional MIMO systems. In this paper, we consider uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Alam Zaib , Mudassir Masood , Anum Ali , Weiyu Xu , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

In this paper, we develop a low-complexity channel estimation for hybrid millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, where the number of radio frequency (RF) chains is much less than the number of antennas equipped at each transceiver. The proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Lou Zhao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

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 considers pilot-based channel estimation in large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems, also known as "massive MIMO". Unlike previous works on this topic, which mainly considered the impact of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-18 Nafiseh Shariati , Emil Björnson , Mats Bengtsson , Mérouane Debbah

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

Millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input-multi-output (MIMO) is now a reality with great potential for further improvement. We study full-duplex transmissions as an effective way to improve mmWave MIMO systems. Compared to half-duplex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Mehdi Sattari , Hao Guo , Deniz Gündüz , Ashkan Panahi , Tommy Svensson

A massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, which utilizes a large number of antennas at the base station (BS) to serve multiple users, suffers from pilot contamination due to inter-cell interference. A smart pilot assignment…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Xudong Zhu , Zhaocheng Wang , Linglong Dai , Chen Qian

Pilot contamination, caused by the reuse of pilots among interfering cells, remains as a significant obstacle that limits the performance of massive multi-input multi-output antenna systems. To handle this problem, less aggressive reuse of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Jy-yong Sohn , Sung Whan Yoon , Jaekyun Moon

Large antenna arrays will be needed in future millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular networks, enabling a large number of different possible antenna architectures and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques. It is still unclear which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mandar N. Kulkarni , Amitava Ghosh , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Massive MIMO systems, where the base stations are equipped with hundreds of antenna elements, are an attractive way to attain unprecedented spectral efficiency in future wireless networks. In the "classical" massive MIMO setting, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Elisabeth de Carvalho , Emil Bjornson , Erik G. Larsson , Petar Popovski

To support the high data rates for latency-critical applications, future wireless systems will employ fully digital beamforming multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) architectures at millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies. Moreover, mmWave…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Faruk Pasic , Mariam Mussbah , Stefan Schwarz , Markus Rupp , Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker

Massive MIMO is expected to play an important role in the development of 5G networks. This paper addresses the issue of pilot contamination and scalability in massive MIMO systems. The current practice of reusing orthogonal pilot sequences…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Muhammad Kamran Saeed , Ahmed E. Kamal , Ashfaq Khokhar