Telecommunications Science ›› 2021, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (6): 14-22.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-0801.2021135

• Topic: 5G+6G • Previous Articles     Next Articles

GAN-based channel estimation for massive MIMO system

Yuxiu HUA1, Rongpeng LI1, Zhifeng ZHAO1,2, Jianjun WU3, Honggang ZHANG1   

  1. 1 College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
    2 Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou 311121, China
    3 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shanghai 200120, China
  • Revised:2021-06-10 Online:2021-06-20 Published:2021-06-01
  • Supported by:
    The National Key Research and Development Program of China(2020YFB1804804SCI);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61731002);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(62071425);Zhejiang Key Research and Development Plan(2019C01002);Zhejiang Key Research and Development Plan(2019C03131);Huawei Cooperation Project, The Project sponsored by Zhejiang Lab(2019LC0AB01);The Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Provincial of China(LY20F010016)

Abstract:

As a key technology of 5G, massive MIMO system can significantly improve spectrum efficiency and energy efficiency by equipping a large number of antennas in base stations.However, in massive MIMO system, accurate channel estimation faces severe challenges.In order to estimate the channel accurately when the pilot sequence length is smaller than the number of transmitting antennas and the channel noise is strong, the estimation method N2N-GAN was proposed.N2N-GAN firstly denoised the pilot channel at the receiving end, and then used the conditional generative adversarial network to estimate the channel matrix according to the denoised pilot signal.Simulation experiments show that N2N-GAN achieves better robustness against noise compared with traditional channel estimation algorithms and deep learning-based methods.Meanwhile, it can adapt to scenarios with fewer pilot symbols and more antennas.

Key words: channel estimation, massive MIMO, signaldenoising, generative adversarial network

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