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This paper addresses the problem of channel estimation in multi-cell interference-limited cellular networks. We consider systems employing multiple antennas and are interested in both the finite and large-scale antenna number regimes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Haifan Yin , David Gesbert , Miltiades Filippou , Yingzhuang Liu

Due to their ability to create favorable line-of-sight (LoS) propagation environments, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are regarded as promising enablers for future millimeter-wave (mm-wave) wireless communication. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Tian Lin , Xianghao Yu , Yu Zhu , Robert Schober

Accurate channel impulse response (CIR) is required for coherent detection and it can also help improve communication quality of service in next-generation wireless communication systems. One of the advanced systems is multi-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Guan Gui , Wei Peng , Fumiyuki Adachi

Flexible intelligent metasurfaces (FIMs) offer a new solution for wireless communications by introducing morphological degrees of freedom, dynamically morphing their three-dimensional shape to ensure multipath signals interfere…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jian Xiao , Ji Wang , Qimei Cui , Yucang Yang , Xingwang Li , Dusit Niyato , Chau Yuen

We introduce novel blind and semi-blind channel estimation methods for cellular time-division duplexing systems with a large number of antennas at each base station. The methods are based on the maximum a-posteriori principle given a prior…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-31 David Neumann , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

In massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, the knowledge of the users' channel covariance matrix is crucial for minimum mean square error (MMSE) channel estimation in the uplink as well as it plays an important role in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Tianyu Yang , Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

We propose a novel deep learning-based channel estimation technique for high-dimensional communication signals that does not require any training. Our method is broadly applicable to channel estimation for multicarrier signals with any…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-23 Eren Balevi , Jeffrey G. Andrews

The problem of excessive pilot overhead required for uplink massive MIMO channel estimation is well known, let alone when it is considered along with wideband (OFDM) transmissions. Towards channel estimators that are both efficient and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Gerhard Wunder , Stelios Stefanatos , Axel Flinth , Ingo Roth , Giuseppe Caire

We investigate a general channel estimation problem in the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system which employs the hybrid analog/digital precoding structure with limited radio-frequency (RF) chains. By properly designing RF…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Leyuan Pan , Le Liang , Wei Xu , Xiaodai Dong

Existing near-field channel estimation methods for extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) typically discretize angle and range parameters jointly, resulting in large polar-domain codebooks. This paper proposes a novel framework that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Feng Xi , Dehui Yang

Hybrid precoding is a key ingredient of cost-effective massive multiple-input multiple-output transceivers. However, setting jointly digital and analog precoders to optimally serve multiple users is a difficult optimization problem.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Nay Klaimi , Amira Bedoui , Clément Elvira , Philippe Mary , Luc Le Magoarou

This paper considers multi-cell Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems where the channels are spatially correlated Rician fading. The channel model is composed of a deterministic line-of-sight (LoS) path and a stochastic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Özgecan Özdogan , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

The high path loss associated with millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency communication can be compensated by large scale antenna arrays such as multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The hybrid beamforming architecture which uses fewer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-17 Evangelos Vlachos , Aryan Kaushik , Muhammad Z. Shakir

This paper proposes a tensor-based parametric modeling and estimation framework in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems assisted by intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs). We present two algorithms that exploit the tensor structure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Kenneth B. A. Benício , André L. F. de Almeida , Bruno Sokal , Fazal-E-Asim , Behrooz Makki , Gabor Fodor

Channel estimation is challenging for millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive MIMO with hybrid precoding, since the number of radio frequency (RF) chains is much smaller than that of antennas. Conventional compressive sensing based channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Chen Hu , Linglong Dai , Talha Mir , Zhen Gao , Jun Fang

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

This paper proposes a channel estimation method for hybrid wideband multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems in high-frequency bands, including millimeter-wave (mmWave) and sub-terahertz (sub-THz), in the presence of beam squint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Kabuto Arai , Koji Ishibashi

Channel state information is crucial to achieving the capacity of multi-antenna (MIMO) wireless communication systems. It requires estimating the channel matrix. This estimation task is studied, considering a sparse channel model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Luc Le Magoarou , Stéphane Paquelet

Extremely large-scale massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) has shown considerable potential in future mobile communications. However, the use of extremely large aperture arrays has led to near-field and spatial non-stationary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Yu Han , Shi Jin , Chao-Kai Wen , Xiaoli Ma

In this paper, we study blind channel-and-signal estimation by exploiting the burst-sparse structure of angular-domain propagation channels in massive MIMO systems. The state-of-the-art approach utilizes the structured channel sparsity by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Hang Liu , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang