No Downlink Pilots Are Needed in TDD Massive MIMO

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 2921-2935

  Ngo, Hien Quoc ^a,b   Larsson, Erik G ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blind channel estimation; downlink; keyhole channels; massive MIMO; maximum ratio processing; time division duplexing; zero forcing processing

Indexed keywords

BLIND EQUALIZATION; CODES (SYMBOLS); HARDENING; MIMO SYSTEMS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

BLIND CHANNEL ESTIMATION; DOWNLINK; KEYHOLE CHANNEL; MAXIMUM RATIO; TIME DIVISION DUPLEXING; ZERO-FORCING;

CHANNEL ESTIMATION;

EID: 85028729997     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2017.2672540     Document Type: Article

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