Pilot beam pattern design for channel estimation in massive MIMO systems

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 787-801

  Noh, Song ^b   Zoltowski, Michael D ^b   Sung, Youngchul ^a   Love, David J ^b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel estimation; massive MIMO systems; spatio temporal correlation; training signal design

Indexed keywords

PILOT BEAM; SPATIOTEMPORAL CORRELATION; TRAINING SIGNAL DESIGN;

CHANNEL ESTIMATION;

EID: 84907210210     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2014.2327572     Document Type: Article

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