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In user-centric cell-free multi-antenna systems, pilot contamination degrades spectral efficiency (SE) severely. To mitigate pilot contamination, existing works jointly optimize pilot assignment and power allocation by assuming fixed pilot…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Yao Peng , Tingting Liu , Chenyang Yang

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

We consider the uplink of a cellular massive MIMO network. Since the spectral efficiency of these networks is limited by pilot contamination, the pilot allocation across cells is of paramount importance. However, finding efficient pilot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Rami Mochaourab , Emil Björnson , Mats Bengtsson

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MaMIMO) has become an integral part of the fifth-generation (5G) standard, and is envisioned to be further developed in beyond 5G (B5G) networks. With a massive number of antennas at the base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Anup Mishra , Yijie Mao , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Luca Sanguinetti , Bruno Clerckx

Pilot contamination is known to be one of the main impairments for massive MIMO multi-cell communications. Inspired by the concept of fractional frequency reuse and by recent contributions on pilot reutilization among non-adjacent cells, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Italo Atzeni , Jesús Arnau , Mérouane Debbah

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

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 work provides a comprehensive scaling law based performance analysis for multi-cell multi-user massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) downlink systems. Imperfect channel state information (CSI), pilot contamination, and channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Cheng Zhang , Yindi Jing , Yongming Huang , Luxi Yang

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 propose a novel location-aware pilot assignment scheme to mitigate pilot contamination in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks, where the channels are subjected to Rician fading. Our proposed scheme utilizes the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Noman Akbar , Shihao Yan , Nan Yang , Jinhong Yuan

In this paper, we look into the issue of intra-cell uplink (UL) pilot orthogonalization and schemes for mitigating the inter-cell pilot contamination with a realistic massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency-division…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Xiliang Luo , Xiaoyu Zhang , Hua Qian , Kai Kang

This paper studies the security aspect of a recently introduced network ("cell-free massive MIMO") under a pilot spoofing attack. Firstly, a simple method to recognize the presence of this type of an active eavesdropping attack to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Tiep M. Hoang , Hien Quoc Ngo , Trung Q. Duong , Hoang D. Tuan , Alan Marshall

The simultaneous transmission of numerous users presents substantial challenges due to the inherent trade-off between channel estimation and information transmission in multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Shuxiao Ye , Xianchao Zhang , Neng Ye

Under the conditions where performance in a massive MIMO network is limited by pilot contamination, the reverse link signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) exhibits different distributions when using different pilot allocation schemes. By…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Anand Sivamalai , Jamie S. Evans

In this work, we propose three pilot assignment schemes to reduce the effect of pilot contamination in cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Our first algorithm, which is based on the idea of random sequential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Priyabrata Parida , Harpreet S. Dhillon

Massive MIMO is, in general, severely affected by pilot contamination. As opposed to traditional detectors, we propose a group-blind detector that takes into account the presence of pilot contamination. While sticking to the traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Guido Carlo Ferrante , Giovanni Geraci , Tony Q. S. Quek , Moe Z. Win

We consider the downlink of a multi-cell massive MIMO system suffering from asymptotic rate saturation due to pilot contamination. As opposed to treating pilot contamination interference as noise (TIN), we study the performance of decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Meysam Shahrbaf Motlagh , Subhajit Majhi , Patrick Mitran , Hideki Ochiai

Random access is necessary in crowded scenarios due to the limitation of pilot sequences and the intermittent pattern of device activity. Nowadays, most of the related works are based on independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-19 Junyuan Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Fan Wei

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

In the uplink of multiuser multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) systems operating over aging channels, pilot spacing is crucial for acquiring channel state information and achieving high signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR).…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Sebastian Fodor , Gábor Fodor , Doğa Gürgünoğlu , Miklós Telek