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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

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is critical to future wireless networks. The substantial increase in the number of base station (BS) antennas introduces near-field propagation effects in the wireless channels,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Haohong Che , Li You , Jue Wang , Zhenzhou Jin , Chenjie Xie , Xiqi Gao

This paper investigates pilot assignment and access point (AP) selection strategies for uplink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems. We propose channel similarity-aware pilot assignment (CAPA) and AP selection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Saeed Mohammadzadeh , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Pei Liu , Hien Quoc Ngo

Pilot contamination is a limiting factor in multicell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems because it can severely impair channel estimation. Prior works have suggested coordinating pilot design across cells in order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Kaiming Shen , Hei Victor Cheng , Xihan Chen , Yonina C. Eldar , Wei Yu

Cellular networks of massive MIMO base-stations employing TDD/OFDM and relying on uplink training for both downlink and uplink transmission are viewed as an attractive candidate for 5G deployments, as they promise high area spectral and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Zekun Zhang , Chenwei Wang , Haralabos Papadopoulos

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

The fundamental limitation of massive MIMO technology is pilot contamination effect. This effect occurs during uplink training when terminals use the same orthogonal signals. In this paper, a pilot reuse factor with large scale fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Tedros Salih , Elijah Mwangi , Kibet Langat

Although the benefits of precoding and combining of data signals are widely recognized, the potential of these techniques for pilot transmission is not fully understood. This is particularly relevant for multiuser multiple-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nima N. Moghadam , Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Gabor Fodor , Mats Bengtsson , Carlo Fischione

The focus of this letter is on the reduction of the large pilot overhead in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We propose a novel joint channel estimation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Danilo Lelin Li , Arman Farhang

The utilization of universal frequency reuse in multi-beam satellite systems introduces a non-negligible level of co-channel interference (CCI), which in turn penalizes the quality of service experienced by users. Taking this as starting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Vincent Boussemart , Loris Marini , Matteo Berioli

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

This paper tackles the problem of downlink data transmission in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems where user equipments (UEs) exhibit high spatial correlation and channel estimation is limited by strong pilot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Placido Mursia , Italo Atzeni , Laura Cottatellucci , David Gesbert

A rapid change of channels in high-speed mobile communications will lead to difficulties in channel estimation and tracking but can also provide Doppler diversity. In this paper, the performance of a multiple-input multiple-output system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Xiaoyun Hou , Jie Ling , Dongming Wang

Channel state information (CSI) estimation is a critical issue in the design of modern massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) networks. With the increasing number of users, assigning orthogonal pilots to everyone incurs a large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Jose Carlos Marinello Filho , Taufik Abrao , Ekram Hossain , Amine Mezghani

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

Any wireless communication system needs to specify a propagation channel model which acts as basis for performance evaluation and comparison. Spatial channel models can be divided into deterministic i.e ray tracing, measurement based which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-11 Syed Waqas Haider Shah

Multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are a prime candidate for use in massive connection density in machine-type communication (MTC) networks. One of the key challenges of MTC networks is to obtain accurate channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Jiho Song , Byungju Lee , Song Noh , Jong-Ho Lee

In this paper, we propose a fully-integrated radar and communication system -- named ComSens. We utilize two different pilot sequences (one for uplink and one for downlink) with the condition that they must be uncorrelated to each other.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Mohammadreza Mousaei , Mojtaba Soltanalian , Besma Smida

Holographic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems represent a spatially constrained MIMO architecture with a massive number of antennas with small antenna spacing as a close approximation of a spatially continuous electromagnetic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-19 Nikolaos Kolomvakis , Emil Björnson

This letter studies pilot design for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing-based time-division duplex (TDD) systems under a sliding-window latest-slot recovery framework that jointly exploits delay-Doppler sparsity across recent slots.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Xu Zhu , Yi Zeng , Tiejun Li