Title
Blind Joint MIMO Channel Estimation and Decoding.
Abstract
We propose a method for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) decoding when channel-state information (CSI) is unknown to both the transmitter and receiver. The proposed method requires some structure in the transmitted signal for the decoding to be effective, in particular that the underlying sources are drawn from a hypercubic space. Our proposed technique fits a minimum volume parallelepiped to the received samples. This problem can be expressed as a non-convex optimization problem that can be solved with high probability by gradient descent. Our blind decoding algorithm can be used when communicating over unknown MIMO wireless channels using either binary phase-shift keying or MPAM modulation. We apply our technique to jointly estimate MIMO-channel gain matrices and decode the underlying transmissions with only knowledge of the transmitted constellation and without the use of pilot symbols. Our results provide theoretical guarantees that the proposed algorithm is correct when applied to MIMO systems with four or fewer transmit antennas. Empirical results show small sample size requirements, making this algorithm suitable for block-fading channels with coherence times typically seen in practice. Our approach has a loss of less than 3 dB compared to zero forcing with perfect CSI, imposing a similar performance penalty as space-time coding techniques without the loss of rate incurred by those techniques.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/glocom.2017.8254157
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Decoding,MIMO communication,Channel estimation,Optimization,Receivers,Transmitters,Gain
Journal
abs/1802.01049
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
0018-9448
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.47
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas R. Dean1113.45
Mary Wootters217225.99
Andrea J. Goldsmith3149921685.67