Journal on Communications ›› 2020, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (4): 197-205.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2020073

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Pilot decontamination based on spectrum separation in massive MIMO system

Hairong WANG1,Jian DONG2,Yuhui WANG3   

  1. 1 College of Telecommunications &Information Engineering,Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications,Nanjing 210003,China
    2 China Information Consulting &Designing Institute Co.,Ltd.,Nanjing 210019,China
    3 Nanjing Marine Radar Institute,Nanjing 211100,China
  • Revised:2020-02-24 Online:2020-04-25 Published:2020-03-09
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61671251);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61404130218);The Open Research Fund of National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of RF Integration and Micro-Assembly Technology(KFJJ20170304);The Project of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications(NY218009)

Abstract:

In order to overcome uplink pilot contamination,the technical bottleneck of massive MIMO,and different from the existing parallel parameter design strategy for blind pilot decontamination,a hierarchical parameter design method was proposed,which points out that different system parameters have different effects on the exact spectrum separation of the sample covariance matrix of the received signal.In other words,different parameters have different priority.Next,it was found that to achieve spectral separation,the power of the desired signal didn’t have to be higher than the interference,and the difference between the two was more important.Furthermore,in a more practical scenario where the pilot sequence length was less than the number of base station receiving antennas,a numerical algorithm was given for the first time to achieve the above-mentioned exact spectral separation.Since the hierarchical parament design ensures the exact separation of the asymptotic spectrum,the results show that the proposed scheme is more suitable for practical applications than the existing blind pilot decontamination.

Key words: massive MIMO, pilot contamination, channel estimation, spectrum separation

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