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Receivers with joint channel estimation and signal detection using superimposed pilots (SP) can achieve high transmission efficiency in orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) systems. However, existing receivers have high computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Fupeng Huang , Qinghua Guo , Youwen Zhang , Yuriy Zakharov

In this paper, the pilot signal design for massive MIMO systems to maximize the training-based received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is considered under two channel models: block Gauss-Markov and block independent and identically distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Jungho So , Donggun Kim , Yuni Lee , Youngchul Sung

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

We propose a location-aware pilot allocation algorithm for a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network with high-mobility users, where the wireless channels are subject to Rician fading. Pilot allocation in massive MIMO is a…

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

In this paper, we consider the problem of joint user scheduling and dynamic pilot allocation in a Time-Division Duplex (TDD) based Massive MIMO network under varying traffic condition. One of the main problems with Massive MIMO systems is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Mehmet Karaca

This paper considers the problem of power control in Massive MIMO systems taking into account the pilot contamination issue and the arrivals and departures of users in the network. Contrary to most of existing work in MIMO systems that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Mohamad Assaad , Salah Eddine Hajri , Thomas Bonald , Anthony Ephremides

We consider a multi-cell massive MIMO system where a time-division duplex protocol is used to estimate the channel state information via uplink pilots. When maximum ratio combining (MRC) is used at the BSs, the re-use of pilots across cells…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Meysam Shahrbaf Motlagh , Subhajit Majhi , Patrick Mitran

This paper considers pilot design to mitigate pilot contamination and provide good service for everyone in multi-cell Massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems. Instead of modeling the pilot design as a combinatorial assignment…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Cell-free massive MIMO systems are currently being considered as potential enablers of future (6G) technologies for wireless communications. By combining distributed processing and massive MIMO, they are expected to deliver improved user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Raphael M. Guedes , José F. de Rezende , Valmir C. Barbosa

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

This letter proposes a deep learning based pilot design scheme to minimize the sum mean square error (MSE) of channel estimation for multi-user distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The pilot signal of each user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-19 Jun Xu , Pengcheng Zhu , Jiamin Li , Xiaohu You

In this paper, we consider the problem of spread pilot design and effective channel estimation in multiple-input multiple-output Zak-OTFS (MIMO-Zak-OTFS) with superimposed spread pilots, where data and spread pilot signals are superimposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Abhishek Bairwa , Ananthanarayanan Chockalingam

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

This paper considers the jointly optimal pilot and data power allocation in single-cell uplink massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Using the spectral efficiency (SE) as performance metric and setting a total energy budget…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hei Victor Cheng , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Pilot contamination has been regarded as a main limiting factor of time division duplexing (TDD) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (Massive MIMO) systems, as it will make the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) saturated.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Juei-Chin Shen , Jun Zhang , Khaled Ben Letaief

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

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

A new scheme to resolve the intra-cell pilot collision for M2M communication in crowded massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems is proposed. The proposed scheme permits those failed user equipments (UEs), judged by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Huimei Han , Xudong Guo , Ying Li

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

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