Superimposed pilot optimization design and channel estimation for multiuser massive MIMO systems

X Jing, M Li, H Liu, S Li, G Pan - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For massive multiuser multiple input multiple output (MIMO)(MU-MIMO) systems, pilot
contamination (PC) and data interference (DI) are two main factors that affect the accuracy of …

Pilot decontamination in massive multiuser MIMO systems based on low‐rank matrix approximation

M Hawej, YR Shayan - IET Communications, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In multi‐cell massive multiuser multi‐input multi‐output (MU‐MIMO) systems, the channel
estimation performance is degraded by the pilot contamination problem. This effect occurs …

Mitigating pilot contamination for channel estimation in multi-cell massive MIMO systems

A Salh, L Audah, NSM Shah, SA Hamzah - Wireless Personal …, 2020 - Springer
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a crucial technology platform for the fifth-
generation of cellular systems (5G). However, massive MIMO systems are affected by pilot …

Channel estimation under staggered frame structure for massive MIMO system

D Kong, D Qu, K Luo, T Jiang - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a staggered frame structure is proposed for single-cell massive multiple-input
multiple-output (MIMO) systems, and the key idea is that different users transmit training …

Channel estimation for multicell multiuser massive MIMO uplink over Rician fading channels

L Wu, Z Zhang, J Dang, J Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pilot contamination (PC) is a major problem in massive multiple-input multiple-output
(MIMO) systems. This paper proposes a novel channel estimation scheme for such a system …

Enhanced channel estimation in massive MIMO via coordinated pilot design

K Shen, HV Cheng, X Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Pilot power allocation through user grouping in multi-cell massive MIMO systems

P Liu, S Jin, T Jiang, Q Zhang… - Ieee transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a relative channel estimation error (RCEE) metric, and derive
closed-form expressions for its expectation Exprcee and the achievable uplink rate holding …

A successive optimization approach to pilot design for multi-cell massive MIMO systems

H Al-Salihi, T Van Chien, TA Le… - IEEE Communications …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we introduce a novel pilot design approach that minimizes the total mean
square errors of the minimum mean square error estimators of all base stations (BSs) …

Joint pilot allocation and pilot sequence optimization in massive MIMO systems

X Nie, F Zhao - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pilot contamination (PC) is recognized as a bottleneck for the achievable throughput of multi-
cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In this paper, we propose a joint …

Two dimension angle of arrival-based precoding for pilot contamination reduction in multi-cell massive MIMO systems

E Ali, M Ismail, NF Abdullah, R Nordin, M Balfaqih… - Wireless …, 2020 - Springer
This paper proposes a new precoding approach that utilizes two-dimension (2D) Angle of
Arrival (AOA) based precoding (beamforming) approach for multi-cell massive Multiple Input …