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In general, reliable communication via multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) requires accurate channel estimation at the receiver. The existing literature largely focuses on denoising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Myeung Suk Oh , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Taejoon Kim , Christopher G. Brinton , David J. Love

We consider channel estimation for high-speed railway communication systems, where both the transmitter and the receiver are equipped with large-scale antenna arrays. It is known that the throughput of conventional training schemes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-25 Tao Li , Xiaodong Wang , Pingyi Fan , Taneli Riihonen

Channel estimation and beamforming play critical roles in frequency-division duplexing (FDD) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. However, these two modules have been treated as two stand-alone components, which makes it…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-04 Yifan Ma , Yifei Shen , Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Spatial channel covariance information can replace full knowledge of the entire channel matrix for designing analog precoders in hybrid multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) architecture. Spatial channel covariance estimation, however, is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Sungwoo Park , Robert W. Heath

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

Achieving high channel estimation accuracy and reducing hardware cost as well as power dissipation constitute substantial challenges in the design of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. To resolve these difficulties,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Yalin Wang , Xihan Chen , Yunlong Cai , Benoit Champagne , Lajos Hanzo

Massive MIMO is a variant of multiuser MIMO, where the number of antennas $M$ at the base-station is large, and generally much larger than the number of spatially multiplexed data streams to/from the users. It has been observed that in many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) enables the formation of narrow beams, effectively mitigating path loss in high-frequency communications. This capability makes the integration of wideband high-frequency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Peicong Zheng , Xuantao Lyu , Ye Wang , Yi Gong

Accurate channel knowledge is critical in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), which motivates the use of channel prediction. Machine learning techniques for channel prediction hold much promise, but current schemes are limited in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Hwanjin Kim , Junil Choi , David J. Love

The combination of Terahertz (THz) and massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is promising to meet the increasing data rate demand of future wireless communication systems thanks to the huge bandwidth and spatial degrees of freedom.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Jiabao Gao , Xiaoming Cheng , Geoffrey Ye Li

A low-complexity convolutional neural network estimator which learns the minimum mean squared error channel estimator for single-antenna users was recently proposed. We generalize the architecture to the estimation of MIMO channels with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-27 B. Fesl , N. Turan , M. Koller , W. Utschick

This paper considers uplink massive MIMO systems with 1-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and develops a deep-learning based channel estimation framework. In this framework, the prior channel estimation observations and deep neural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Yu Zhang , Muhammad Alrabeiah , Ahmed Alkhateeb

This letter proposes decision-directed semi-blind channel estimation for massive multiple-input multiple-output low-Earth-orbit satellite communications. Two semi-blind estimators are proposed. The first utilizes detected data symbols in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Abdollah Masoud Darya , Saeed Abdallah

A method for channel estimation in wideband massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems using covariance identification is developed. The method is useful for Frequency-Division Duplex (FDD) at either sub-6GHz or millimeter wave…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 José González-Coma , Pedro Suárez-Casal , Paula M. Castro , Luis Castedo , Michael Joham

This paper investigates new efficient transmission architectures for multi-satellite massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). We study the weighted sum-rate maximization problem in a multi-satellite system where multiple satellites…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Wenjing Cao , Yafei Wang , Jinshuo Zhang , Xiaofan Xu , Wenjin Wang , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

This paper develops efficient channel estimation techniques for millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems under practical hardware limitations, including an arbitrary array geometry and a hybrid hardware…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-23 Yue Wang , Yu Zhang , Zhi Tian , Geert Leus , Gong Zhang

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

Hybrid analog-digital (HAD) architecture is widely adopted in practical millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems to reduce hardware cost and energy consumption. However, channel estimation in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Jiabao Gao , Caijun Zhong , Geoffrey Ye Li , Joseph B. Soriaga , Arash Behboodi

In order to reduce hardware complexity and power consumption, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems employ low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) to acquire quantized measurements $\boldsymbol y$. This poses new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Shuai Huang , Deqiang Qiu , Trac D. Tran

Cell-Free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are investigated with the support of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). The RIS phase shifts are designed for improved channel estimation in the presence of spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Trinh Van Chien , Nguyen Hoang Viet , Symeon Chatzinotas , Lajos Hanzo