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Orthogonal delay-Doppler division multiplexing~(ODDM) modulation has recently been regarded as a promising technology to provide reliable communications in high-mobility situations. Accurate and low-complexity channel estimation is one of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Dezhi Wang , Chongwen Huang , Xiaojun Yuan , Sami Muhaidat , Lei Liu , Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Chau Yuen , Mérouane Debbah

Recently, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted communication has gained considerable attention due to its advantage in extending the coverage and compensating the path loss with low-cost passive metasurface. This paper considers…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Silei Wang , Qiang Li , Jingran Lin

This paper deals with the problem of estimating the covariance matrix of a series of independent multivariate observations, in the case where the dimension of each observation is of the same order as the number of observations. Although…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Jianfeng Yao , Abla Kammoun , Jamal Najim

Accurate channel estimation is critical for realizing the performance gains of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Traditional approaches to channel estimation typically assume ideal receiver hardware and linear signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Arttu Arjas , Italo Atzeni

Traditional approaches in the analysis of downlink systems decouple the precoding and the channel estimation problems. However, in cellular systems with mobile users, these two problems are in fact tightly coupled. In this paper, this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jubin Jose , Alexei Ashikhmin , Phil Whiting , Sriram Vishwanath

Channel estimation poses significant challenges in millimeter-wave massive multiple-input multiple-output systems, especially when the base station has fewer radio-frequency chains than antennas. To address this challenge, one promising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Pengxia Wu , Julian Cheng , Yonina C. Eldar , John M. Cioffi

To develop a low-complexity multicast beamforming method for millimeter wave communications, we first propose a channel gain estimation method in this article. We use the beam sweeping to find the best codeword and its two neighboring…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Zhaohui Li , Chenhao Qi , Geoffrey Ye Li

In intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted communication systems, the acquisition of channel state information (CSI) is a crucial impediment for achieving the beamforming gain of IRS because of the considerable overhead required for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuguang Cui

By employing the lens antenna array, beamspace MIMO can utilize beam selection to reduce the number of required RF chains in mmWave massive MIMO systems without obvious performance loss. However, to achieve the capacityapproaching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Linglong Dai , Xinyu Gao , Shuangfeng Han , Chih-Lin I , Xiaodong Wang

Millimeter-wave massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) can use a lens antenna array to considerably reduce the number of radio frequency (RF) chains, but channel estimation is challenging due to the number of RF chains is much…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Xiuhong Wei , Chen Hu , Linglong Dai

Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs) are emerging as a promising technology to enable energy-efficient, large array-based multi-antenna systems. This paper presents a simple channel estimation scheme for the downlink of a multiple-input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Amarilton L. Magalhães , Fazal E-Asim , André L. F. de Almeida , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In this paper, we study the problem of sparse channel estimation via a collaborative and fully distributed approach. The estimation problem is formulated in the angular domain by exploiting the spatially common sparsity structure of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Maria Trigka , Christos Mavrokefalidis , Kostas Berberidis

The knowledge of channel covariance matrices is of paramount importance to the estimation of instantaneous channels and the design of beamforming vectors in multi-antenna systems. In practice, an abrupt change in channel covariance matrices…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-10 Runnan Liu , Liang Liu , Dazhi He , Wenjun Zhang , Erik G. Larsson

This paper considers the beamspace channel estimation problem in 3D lens antenna array under a millimeter-wave communication system. We analyze the focusing capability of the 3D lens antenna array and the sparsity of the beamspace channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Jie Yang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Feifei Gao

This paper investigates the combination of parametric channel estimation with minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimation. We propose a direction-of-arrival (DoA)-aided two-stage channel estimation technique that utilizes the decomposition…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-29 Franz Weißer , Nurettin Turan , Wolfgang Utschick

We consider the problem of downlink channel estimation for millimeter wave (mmWave) MIMO-OFDM systems, where both the base station (BS) and the mobile station (MS) employ large antenna arrays for directional precoding/beamforming. Hybrid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Zhou Zhou , Jun Fang , Linxiao Yang , Hongbin Li , Zhi Chen , Rick S. Blum

In order to cope with the large path-loss exponent of mm-Wave channels, a high beamforming gain is needed. This can be achieved with small hardware complexity and high hardware power efficiency by Hybrid Digital-Analog (HDA) beamforming,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

This paper addresses the challenge of channel estimation in extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems, pivotal for the advancement of 6G communications. XL-MIMO systems, characterized by their vast antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Sunho Kim , Wan Choi

We derive novel bounds for the performance of algorithms that estimate the downlink covariance matrix from the uplink covariance matrix in frequency division duplex (FDD) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The focus is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-02 Renato Luis Garrido Cavalcante , Lorenzo Miretti , Slawomir Stanczak

Massive MIMO is one of the main features of 5G mobile radio systems. However, it often leads to high cost, size and power consumption. To overcome these issues, the use of constrained radio frequency (RF) frontends has been proposed, as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 Brenda Vilas Boas , Wolfgang Zirwas , Martin Haardt