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Due to the low per-antenna SNR and high signaling overhead, channel estimation is a major bottleneck in Massive MIMO systems. Spatial constraints can improve estimation performance by exploiting sparsity. Solutions exist for far field -…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Arkady Molev-Shteiman , Laurence Mailaender , Xiao-Feng Qi

We consider the problem of pilot-aided, uplink channel estimation in a distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) architecture, in which the access points are connected to a central processing unit via fiber-optical fronthaul…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Alireza Bordbar , Lise Aabel , Christian Häger , Christian Fager , Giuseppe Durisi

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Tian Lin , Xianghao Yu , Yu Zhu , Robert Schober

In this paper, we investigate the blind channel estimation problem for MIMO systems under Rayleigh fading channel. Conventional MIMO communication techniques require transmitting a considerable amount of training symbols as pilots in each…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Jiancheng Tang , Qianqian Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

We propose a novel system identification technique, based on a least-mean square algorithm, allowing for the estimation of a linear channel by using an unknown-response measurement channel. The key of the technique is a memoryless nonlinear…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-18 Juan I. Bonetti , James Kunst , Damián A. Morero , Mario R. Hueda

In this article, we investigate channel estimation for wideband millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) under hybrid architecture with lowprecision analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). To design channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-13 Yucheng Wang , Wei Xu , Hua Zhang , Xiaohu You

In this letter, the channel estimation problem is studied for wireless communication systems assisted by large intelligent surface. Due to features of assistant channel, channel estimation (CE) problem for the investigated system is shown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Junliang Lin , Gongpu Wang , Rongfei Fan , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Chintha Tellambura

Channel charting has emerged as a powerful tool for user equipment localization and wireless environment sensing. Its efficacy lies in mapping high-dimensional channel data into low-dimensional features that preserve the relative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Ge Chen , Panqi Chen , Lei Cheng

We study downlink (DL) channel estimation in a multi-cell Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system operating in a time-division duplex. The users must know their effective channel gains to decode their received DL data signals.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Amin Ghazanfari , Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

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

We propose a method for MIMO decoding when channel state information (CSI) is unknown to both the transmitter and receiver. The proposed method requires some structure in the transmitted signal for the decoding to be effective, in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-06 Thomas R. Dean , Mary Wootters , Andrea J. Goldsmith

Estimation in few-bit MIMO systems is challenging, since the received signals are nonlinearly distorted by the low-resolution ADCs. In this paper, we propose a deep learning framework for channel estimation, data detection, and pilot signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Ly V. Nguyen , Duy H. N. Nguyen , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In this paper, we propose a model-driven channel estimation method utilizing a convolutional neural network (CNN) derived from image super-resolution (SR). Instead of completely abandoning traditional communication modules as data-driven…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-02 Xin Ru , Li Wei , Youyun Xu

The user-centric, cell-free wireless network is a promising next-generation communication system, but signal synchronization issues arise due to distributed access points and lack of cellular structure. We propose a novel method to recover…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Xuyang Sun , Hussein A. Ammar , Raviraj Adve , Israfil Bahceci , Gary Boudreau

This paper proposes a correlation-based three-stage channel estimation strategy with low pilot overhead for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided millimeter wave (mmWave) multi-user (MU) MIMO systems, in which both users and base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Liuchang Zhuo , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Ruisong Weng , Shi Jin , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Jiangzhou Wang

THz band enabled large scale massive MIMO (M-MIMO) is considered as a key enabler for the 6G technology, given its enormous bandwidth and for its low latency connectivity. In the large-scale M-MIMO configuration, enlarged array aperture and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Pulok Tarafder , Imtiaz Ahmed , Danda B. Rawat , Ramesh Annavajjala , Kumar Vijay Mishra

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is a key technology for next-generation wireless communication systems. By deploying significantly more antennas than conventional massive MIMO systems, XL-MIMO promises…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Ming Zeng , Ji Wang , Wanming Hao , Zheng Chu , Wenwu Xie , Quoc-Viet Pham

This paper develops a novel channel estimation approach for multi-user millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless systems with large antenna arrays. By exploiting the inherent mmWave channel sparsity, we propose a novel simultaneous-estimation with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Matthew Kokshoorn , He Chen , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

The acquisition of channel state information (CSI) is essential in MIMO-OFDM communication systems. Data-aided enhanced receivers, by incorporating domain knowledge, effectively mitigate performance degradation caused by imperfect CSI,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Xinjie Li , Jing Zhang , Xingyu Zhou , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

Massive MIMO is a variant of multiuser MIMO where the number of base-station antennas $M$ is very large (typically 100), and generally much larger than the number of spatially multiplexed data streams (typically 10). Unfortunately, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire