Title
Robust pilot decontamination based on joint angle and power domain discrimination
Abstract
We address the problem of noise and interference corrupted channel estimation in massive MIMO systems. Interference, which originates from pilot reuse (or contamination), can in principle be discriminated on the basis of the distributions of path angles and amplitudes. In this paper, we propose novel robust channel estimation algorithms exploiting path diversity in both angle and power domains, relying on a suitable combination of the spatial filtering and amplitude based projection. The proposed approaches are able to cope with a wide range of system and topology scenarios, including those where, unlike in previous works, interference channel may overlap with desired channels in terms of multipath angles of arrival or exceed them in terms of received power. In particular, we establish analytically the conditions under which the proposed channel estimator is fully decontaminated. Simulation results confirm the overall system gains when using the new methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TSP.2016.2535204
IEEE Trans. Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Channel estimation,Interference,Antennas,MIMO,Contamination,Base stations,Robustness
Multipath propagation,Power domains,Control theory,Communication channel,MIMO,Interference (wave propagation),Amplitude,Mathematics,Spatial filter,Estimator
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
abs/1509.06024
11
1053-587X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
0.72
17
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Haifan Yin151927.34
L. Cottatellucci2606.30
David Gesbert32996218.36
R. Muller41206124.92
Gaoning He516513.79