Title
Selective Uplink Training For Massive Mimo Systems
Abstract
As a promising technique to meet the drastically growing demand for both high throughput and uniform coverage in the fifth generation (5G) wireless networks, massive multipleinput multiple-output (MIMO) systems have attracted significant attention in recent years. However, in massive MIMO systems, as the density of mobile users (MUs) increases, conventional uplink training methods will incur prohibitively high training overhead, which is proportional to the number of MUs. In this paper, we propose a selective uplink training method for massive MIMO systems, where in each channel block only part of the MUs will send uplink pilots for channel training, and the channel states of the remaining MUs are predicted from the estimates in previous blocks, taking advantage of the channels' temporal correlation. We propose an efficient algorithm to dynamically select the MUs to be trained within each block and determine the optimal uplink training length. Simulation results show that the proposed training method provides significant throughput gains compared to the existing methods, while much lower estimation complexity is achieved. It is observed that the throughput gain becomes higher as the MU density increases.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/ICC.2016.7511214
2016 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (ICC)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Uplink massive MIMO, selective training, temporal correlation, dynamic user selection
Conference
abs/1602.08857
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-3607
4
0.43
References 
Authors
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Changming Li140.43
Jun Zhang23772190.36
Shenghui Song313111.77
K. B. Letaief411078879.10