Journal on Communications ›› 2017, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (2): 165-172.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2017038

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Pilot decontamination in massive MIMO system combining time-shifted and cell sectorization pilot assignment

Xin-lei SONG,Lin YANG,Jia-liang DU   

  1. National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Communications,University Science and Technology of China,Chengdu 611731,China
  • Revised:2016-10-26 Online:2017-02-01 Published:2017-07-20
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61370012);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61571082);The National Science and Technology Major Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2014ZX03004003)

Abstract:

Pilot contamination is appeared in massive MIMO (multiple input multiple output) system when using the same pilot sequences at different cells to get the channel state information.It becomes a bottleneck problem of massive MIMO when the number of antenna goes infinite.In order to dealt with pilot contamination,a new TS-CSPA joint scheme was proposed.This scheme can mitigate pilot contamination by reduce the reuse of pilot sequence through the time domain and space domain.And the closed-form expression for the achieved rates and signal to interference plus noise ratio(SINR) to verify the advantages of the proposed scheme were given.Numerical results show that significant performance gains to mitigate pilot contamination problem compared to other methods.

Key words: massive MIMO, pilot contamination, spectral efficiency, channel estimate

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