A Comprehensive Survey of Pilot Contamination in Massive MIMO—5G System

By O. Elijah, Chee Yen (Bruce) Leow, Tharek Abdul Rahman, Solomon Nunoo, Solomon Zakwoi Iliya. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2016

417 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Massive Access for 5G and Beyond (2020, background): “An obstacle to realizing CSI acquisition in TDD systems is the so-called pilot contamination problem [108].”
• Security for 5G and Beyond (2019, background): “ticell Time Division Duplex (TDD) networks introduce the concept of pilot contamination due to the limitations of coherence time [178].”
• Study and Investigation on 5G Technology: A Systematic Review (2021, background): “In [50], authors discussed the development of various techniques for pilot contamination.”
• Massive MIMO Systems for 5G and beyond Networks—Overview, Recent Trends, Challenges, and Future Research Direction (2020, methodology): “Although blind methods provided accurate channel estimation, its assumption that all the desired channels are stronger than the interfering channel does not always hold [66].”
• A Survey on Hybrid Beamforming Techniques in 5G: Architecture and System Model Perspectives (2018, background): “In this context, [64] provides an up-to-date survey on pilot contamination and presents the major sources that impact the massive MIMO system performance using TDD.”
• Ultra-Dense Networks: A Survey (2016, background): “Many challenges are facing the realization of the theoretical concepts behind massive-MIMO, the most prominent is the channel knowledge [125].”
• An Overview of Internet of Things (IoT) and Data Analytics in Agriculture: Benefits and Challenges (2018, background): “This will open up other research challenges, such as pilot contamination [121].”
• Massive MIMO Detection Techniques: A Survey (2019, background): “Massive MIMO has become a hot research topic in last few years, and, hence, several survey papers related to massive MIMO systems have been published [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16].”