Pilot Reuse for Massive MIMO Transmission over Spatially Correlated Rayleigh Fading Channels

By Li You, Xiqi Gao, Xiang-Gen Xia, Ni Ma, Yan Peng. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2015

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We propose pilot reuse (PR) in single cell for massive multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission to reduce the pilot overhead. For spatially correlated Rayleigh fading channels, we establish a relationship between channel spatial correlations and channel power angle spectrum when the base station antenna number tends to infinity. With this channel model, we show that sum mean square error (MSE) of channel estimation can be minimized provided that channel angle of arrival intervals of the user terminals reusing the pilots are non-overlapping, which shows feasibility of PR over spatially correlated massive MIMO channels with constrained channel angular spreads. Since channel estimation performance might degrade due to PR, we also develop the closed-form robust multiuser uplink receiver and downlink precoder that minimize sum MSE of signal detection, and reveal a duality between them. Subsequently, we investigate pilot scheduling, which determines the PR pattern, under two minimum MSE related criteria, and propose a low complexity pilot scheduling algorithm, which relies on the channel statistics only. Simulation results show that the proposed PR scheme provides significant performance gains over the conventional orthogonal training scheme in terms of net spectral efficiency.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Channel Estimation and Performance Analysis of One-Bit Massive MIMO Systems (2016, methodology): “The covariance matrix C h can then be obtained according to [45, Eq.”
A Unified Transmission Strategy for TDD/FDD Massive MIMO Systems With Spatial Basis Expansion Model (2017, background): “6This interuser interference stems from the pilot reuse in the same cell and thus can be specified as the intracell pilot contamination [32].”
Massive MIMO Transmission for LEO Satellite Communications (2020, methodology): “The performance of massive MIMO systems relies substantially on the available CSI [13]–[15].”
Massive MIMO Has Unlimited Capacity (2017, background): “In contrast, there are special cases of spatially correlated fading that give rise to rank-deficient covariance matrices [10]–[12].”
Beam Division Multiple Access Transmission for Massive MIMO Communications (2015, methodology): “Using the method in [25], we can construct the unitary matrix V by letting φm = θ(m/M),m = 0, 1, .”