Fractional pilot reuse in massive MIMO system

C Zhang, L Ma - IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of …, 2015 - search.ieice.org
The pilot contamination is a serious problem which hinders the capacity increasing in the
massive MIMO system. Similar to Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) in the OFDMA system …

System and method for reducing pilot signal contamination using orthogonal pilot signals

S Ashrafi - US Patent 10,263,670, 2019 - Google Patents
A system for transmitting pilot signals has first signal processing circuitry for generating a
pilot signal at a transmitting unit. An MLO modulation circuit modulates the pilot signal using …

Two-stage time-domain pilot contamination elimination in large-scale multiple-antenna aided and TDD based OFDM systems

X Guo, J Zhang, S Chen, X Mu, L Hanzo - IEEE Access, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pilot contamination (PC) is a major impediment of large-scale multi-cell multiple-input
multiple-output systems. Hence, we propose an optimal pilot design for time-domain …

Optimal resource allocation for massive MIMO over spatially correlated fading channels

Y Li, C Tao, L Liu, L Zhang - 2016 IEEE 83rd Vehicular …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates optimal resource allocation scheme for a typical uplink single-cell
massive MIMO system over spatially correlated fading channels. To reduce the pilot …

Cooperative scheduling for pilot reuse in massive MIMO systems

YK Hua, W Chang, SL Su - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To be differentiated from the literature, in this paper, we aim to alleviate the impact of pilot
contamination (PC) on the massive MIMO systems by cooperatively scheduling users (rather …

Analysis of channel estimation in large-scale MIMO aided OFDM systems with pilot design

S Ni, J Zhao, R Ran - 2016 IEEE 83rd Vehicular Technology …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of pilot contamination in multi-cell multiuser Large-Scale
Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (LS-MIMO) aided orthogonal frequency division multiplexing …

Low-complexity user scheduling in the downlink massive MU-MIMO system with linear precoding

O Bai, H Gao, T Lv, C Yuen - 2014 IEEE/CIC International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate low-complexity user scheduling schemes for the downlink (DL)
massive multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) system, where an M-antenna …

Mitigating inter-cell pilot interference via network-based greedy sequence selection and exchange

S Bazzi, W Xu - IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We revisit the pilot contamination problem using the LTE pilot frame structure, and perform
channel estimation in the time domain using Zadoff-Chu pilot sequences. Sequences in …

Massive MIMO with quasi orthogonal pilots: A flexible solution for TDD systems

HN Qureshi, IH Naqvi, M Uppal - 2017 IEEE 86th Vehicular …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents novel results for Massive MIMO time division duplex (TDD) system
where the beam-forming vector in the down-link makes use of MMSE channel estimates with …

Pilot Contamination Mitigation via a Novel Time‐Shift Pilot Scheme in Large‐Scale Multicell Multiuser MIMO Systems

Z Luo, H Wang, W Lv - International Journal of Antennas and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a novel time‐shift pilot scheme to mitigate the pilot contamination in large‐scale
multicell multiuser MIMO (LS‐MIMO) systems. In the proposed scheme, the length of the …