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Millimeter wave multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems must operate over sparse wireless links and will require large antenna arrays to provide high throughput. To achieve sufficient array gains, these systems must…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-17 Wei Zhang , Taejoon Kim , David J. Love

This paper gives a replica analysis for the minimum mean square error (MSE) of a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system by using Bayesian inference. The Bayes-optimal estimator is adopted to estimate the data symbols and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Chao-Kai Wen , Yongpeng Wu , Kai-Kit Wong , Robert Schober , Pangan Ting

In mmWave massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems, hybrid digital/analog beamforming has been recognized as an economic means to overcome the severe mmWave propagation loss. To facilitate beamforming for mmWace mMIMO, there…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-19 Shijian Gao , Xiang Cheng , Liuqing Yang

The mean square error (MSE)-optimal estimator is known to be the conditional mean estimator (CME). This paper introduces a parametric channel estimation technique based on Bayesian estimation. This technique uses the estimated channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-24 Franz Weißer , Wolfgang Utschick

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

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems require efficient and accurate channel estimation with low pilot overhead to unlock their full potential for high spectral and energy efficiency. While deep generative models have emerged as a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Yongqiang Zhang , Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem

This work proposes a generative modeling-aided channel estimator based on mixtures of factor analyzers (MFA). In an offline step, the parameters of the generative model are inferred via an expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm in order to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Benedikt Fesl , Nurettin Turan , Wolfgang Utschick

Extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is a promising technique to achieve ultra-high spectral efficiency for future 6G communications. The mixed line-of-sight (LoS) and non-line-of-sight (NLoS) XL-MIMO near-field…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Ming Ye , Xiao Liang , Cunhua Pan , Yinfei Xu , Ming Jiang , Chunguo Li

Large-scale MIMO systems with a massive number N of individually controlled antennas pose significant challenges for minimum mean square error (MMSE) channel estimation, based on uplink pilots. The major ones arise from the computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Giacomo Bacci , Antonio Alberto D'Amico , Luca Sanguinetti

This paper derives a novel pilot-aided phase and channel estimation algorithm for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with phase noise and quasi-static channel fading. Our novel approach allows, for the first time, carrier phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-07 Yiming Li , Zhouyi Hu , Andrew Ellis

A low-complexity neural network based approach for channel estimation was proposed recently, where assumptions on the channel model were incorporated into the design procedure of the estimator. Instead of using data from a measurement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Nurettin Turan , Wolfgang Utschick

Channel estimation for millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive MIMO with hybrid precoding is challenging, since the number of radio frequency (RF) chains is usually much smaller than that of antennas. To date, several channel estimation schemes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Zhen Gao , Linglong Dai , Chen Hu , Zhaocheng Wang

With the proliferation of deep learning techniques for wireless communication, several works have adopted learning-based approaches to solve the channel estimation problem. While these methods are usually promoted for their computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Mohamed Akrout , Amal Feriani , Faouzi Bellili , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

Cognitive radios have been proposed as agile technologies to boost the spectrum utilization. This paper tackles the problem of channel estimation and its impact on downlink transmissions in an underlay cognitive radio scenario. We consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-11 Maha Alodeh , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

Channel estimation is essential to massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. While recent generative model-based approaches using lightweight diffusion models (DMs) have achieved superior performance, they typically rely on a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Zhuorui Jiang , Jun Fang , Boyu Ning , Hongbin Li , Ying-Chang Liang

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

This paper addresses the training signal design for the channel estimation in two-way multiple-input-and-multipleoutput (MIMO) relay systems, where the channels are correlated. We first derive the backward channel estimator with the optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Huiming Chen

Massive MIMO (mMIMO) systems are essential for 5G/6G networks to meet high throughput and reliability demands, with machine learning (ML)-based techniques, particularly autoencoders (AEs), showing promise for practical deployment. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Ju-Hyung Lee , Joohan Lee , Andreas F. Molisch

Diffusion model (DM)-based channel estimation, which generates channel samples via a posteriori sampling stepwise with denoising process, has shown potential in high-precision channel state information (CSI) acquisition. However, slow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Wenkai Liu , Nan Ma , Jianqiao Chen , Xiaoxuan Qi , Yuhang Ma

Machine learning (ML) starts to be widely used to enhance the performance of multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) receivers. However, it is still unclear if such methods are truly competitive with respect to conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Mathieu Goutay , Fayçal Ait Aoudia , Jakob Hoydis , Jean-Marie Gorce