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In this paper, we investigate the system performance of a multi-cell multi-user (MU) hybrid millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network adopting the channel estimation algorithm proposed in [1] for channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-30 Lou Zhao , Zhiqiang Wei , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan , Mark C. Reed

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

Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) provides great improvements in spectral efficiency over legacy cellular networks, by coherent combining of the signals over a large antenna array and by spatial multiplexing of many users. Since…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Emil Björnson , Jakob Hoydis , Luca Sanguinetti

A massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, which utilizes a large number of base station (BS) antennas to serve a set of users, suffers from pilot contamination due to the inter-cell interference (ICI). In this letter, a graph…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xudong Zhu , Linglong Dai , Zhaocheng Wang

Pilot contamination (PC) arises when the pilot sequences assigned to user equipments (UEs) are not mutually orthogonal, eventually due to their reuse. In this work, we propose a novel expectation propagation (EP)-based joint channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Christian Forsch , Zilu Zhao , Dirk Slock , Laura Cottatellucci

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

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

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

A subspace projection to improve channel estimation in massive multi-antenna systems is proposed and analyzed. Together with power-controlled hand-off, it can mitigate the pilot contamination problem without the need for coordination among…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Ralf Müller , Laura Cottatellucci , Mikko Vehkaperä

In this paper, we analyze pilot contamination (PC) attacks on a multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network with correlated pilots. We obtain correlated pilots using a user capacity-achieving pilot sequence design. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Noman Akbar , Shihao Yan , Asad Masood Khattak , Nan Yang

In this paper, we investigate the impact of channel aging on the performance of cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with pilot contamination. To take into account the channel aging effect due to user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai

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

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

Pilot contamination in the uplink (UL) can severely degrade the channel estimation quality at the base station (BS) in a massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system. Thus, it is critical to explore all possible avenues to enable more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Xiliang Luo , Xiaoyu Zhang

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

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

The main requirements for 5G and beyond connectivity include a uniform high quality of service, which can be attained in crowded scenarios by extra-large MIMO (XL-MIMO) systems. Another requirement is to support increasing connected users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Gabriel Avanzi Ubiali , Taufik Abrao , Jose Carlos Marinello

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (massive MIMO) can provide large spectral and energy efficiency gains. Nevertheless, its potential is conditioned on acquiring accurate channel state information (CSI). In time division duplexing (TDD)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Salah Eddine Hajri , Mohamad Assaad

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

We consider a massive MIMO system based on Time Division Duplexing (TDD) and channel reciprocity, where the base stations (BSs) learn the channel vectors of their users via the pilots transmitted by the users in the uplink (UL). It is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire