A comprehensive survey of pilot contamination in massive MIMO—5G system

O Elijah, CY Leow, TA Rahman… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Massive MIMO has been recognized as a promising technology to meet the demand for
higher data capacity for mobile networks in 2020 and beyond. Although promising, each …

Beamforming techniques for massive MIMO systems in 5G: overview, classification, and trends for future research

E Ali, M Ismail, R Nordin, NF Abdulah - Frontiers of Information …, 2017 - Springer
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems combined with beamforming
antenna array technologies are expected to play a key role in next-generation wireless …

Survey of large-scale MIMO systems

K Zheng, L Zhao, J Mei, B Shao… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The escalating teletraffic growth imposed by the proliferation of smartphones and tablet
computers outstrips the capacity increase of wireless communications networks …

Optimal pilot design in massive MIMO systems based on channel estimation

S Ni, J Zhao, Y Gong - IET Communications, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The performance of multicell massive multiple‐input multiple‐output (MIMO) systems is
heavily affected by pilot contamination. This study considers the problem of pilot …

Pilot contamination reduction in TDD‐based massive MIMO systems

J Zhao, S Ni, Y Gong, Q Zhang - IET Communications, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Channel estimation in time division duplexing (TDD)‐based massive multiple‐input multiple‐
output (MIMO) systems is heavily hampered by the pilot contamination, which constitutes a …

Vertex graph-coloring-based pilot assignment with location-based channel estimation for massive MIMO systems

HT Dao, S Kim - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is considered as a promising technique in
wireless communication systems, which contains cellular base stations equipped with a very …

Two-dimensional precoding for 3-D massive MIMO

Z Wang, W Liu, C Qian, S Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 2-D precoding scheme is proposed for 3-D massive multiple-input multiple-output
(MMIMO) systems for efficiently exploiting the 2-D antenna array of the base station …

An improved multicell MMSE channel estimation in a massive MIMO system

K Li, X Song, MO Ahmad… - International Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Massive MIMO is a promising technology to improve both the spectrum efficiency and the
energy efficiency. The key problem that impacts the throughput of a massive MIMO system is …

Location-aware pilot assignment for massive MIMO systems in heterogeneous networks

P Zhao, Z Wang, C Qian, L Dai… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate the heterogeneous cellular network (HetNet) where the macrocell base
stations (MBSs) are equipped with very large antenna arrays. Since such a combined …

Location-based channel estimation and pilot assignment for massive MIMO systems

Z Wang, C Qian, L Dai, J Chen, C Sun… - 2015 IEEE …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a location-based channel estimation algorithm is proposed for massive multi-
input multi-output (MIMO) systems. By utilizing the property of the steering vector, a fast …