A Comprehensive Survey of Pilot Contamination in Massive MIMO-5G System

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 905-923

  Elijah, Olakunle ^a   Leow, Chee Yen ^a   Rahman, Tharek Abdul ^a   Nunoo, Solomon ^b   Iliya, Solomon Zakwoi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^c National Space Research and Development Agency NASRDA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

5G network; channel state information (CSI); frequency division duplex system (FDD); massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO); pilot contamination; time division duplex system (TDD)

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPLEX NETWORKS; CONTAMINATION; FEEDBACK; MIMO SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RADIO TRANSCEIVERS; SURVEYS;

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; DEPLOYMENT SCENARIOS; FREQUENCY DIVISION DUPLEX SYSTEM; G-NETWORKS; MITIGATION TECHNIQUES; PILOT CONTAMINATIONS; TIME DIVISION DUPLEX; TIME-DIVISION DUPLEX SYSTEMS;

CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION;

EID: 84971501391     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2015.2504379     Document Type: Article

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