1. On Superimposed Pilot for Channel Estimation in Multicell Multiuser MIMO Uplink: Large System Analysis.
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Zhang, Han, Gao, Shan, Li, Dong, Chen, Hongbin, and Yang, Liang
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MIMO systems ,SUPERIMPOSED coding ,CHANNEL estimation ,INTERFERENCE (Telecommunication) ,SAMPLING errors - Abstract
This paper concerns the uplink of multicell multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. To tackle the effect of pilot contamination that is generally viewed as a bottleneck in previous work, this paper presents a superimposed pilot (SP)-aided uplink channel estimation scheme and mathematically characterizes the impact that an SP has on the performance of such a very large MIMO system. It is shown that there are two types of interference components that do not vanish, even when the number of antennas $M$ grows to infinity. The first type, which is referred to as cross-contamination, is due to the correlation between the SP and data among different cells. The second type, which is referred to as self-contamination, is due to the dependence between channel estimation and estimation error. Cross-contamination is, in principle, similar to pilot contamination in a conventional pilot-based multicell MIMO system, whereas self-contamination is unique for the SP-aided scheme. Both theoretical and simulation results demonstrate that the SP-aided scheme can effectively reduce the estimation contamination by increasing the data frame size and, in turn, achieve a significant improvement over the spectral efficiency, in comparison with conventional pilot-based methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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