Pilot decontamination in wideband massive MIMO systems by exploiting channel sparsity

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 5087-5100

  Chen, Zhilin ^a   Yang, Chenyang ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

channel estimation; channel sparsity; Discrete Fourier Transform; Karhunen Lo ve Transform; Massive MIMO; pilot contamination

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DECONTAMINATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MIMO SYSTEMS;

CHANNEL SPARSITY; CHANNEL STATISTICS; INTERFERENCE CHANNELS; LEAST-SQUARE CHANNEL ESTIMATORS; MASSIVE MULTIPLE-INPUT- MULTIPLE-OUTPUT SYSTEM (MIMO); PILOT CONTAMINATIONS; SPACE AND FREQUENCY DOMAINS; STATISTICAL INFORMATION;

DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

EID: 84978718125     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2016.2553021     Document Type: Article

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