MMSE Channel Estimation in Large-Scale MIMO: Improved Robustness with Reduced Complexity

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Main Authors: Bacci, Giacomo, D'Amico, Antonio Alberto, Sanguinetti, Luca
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author Bacci, Giacomo
D'Amico, Antonio Alberto
Sanguinetti, Luca
author_facet Bacci, Giacomo
D'Amico, Antonio Alberto
Sanguinetti, Luca
contents Large-scale MIMO systems with a massive number N of individually controlled antennas pose significant challenges for minimum mean square error (MMSE) channel estimation, based on uplink pilots. The major ones arise from the computational complexity, which scales with $N^3$, and from the need for accurate knowledge of the channel statistics. This paper aims to address both challenges by introducing reduced-complexity channel estimation methods that achieve the performance of MMSE in terms of estimation accuracy and uplink spectral efficiency while demonstrating improved robustness in practical scenarios where channel statistics must be estimated. This is achieved by exploiting the inherent structure of the spatial correlation matrix induced by the array geometry. Specifically, we use a Kronecker decomposition for uniform planar arrays and a well-suited circulant approximation for uniform linear arrays. By doing so, a significantly lower computational complexity is achieved, scaling as $N\sqrt{N}$ and $N\log N$ for squared planar arrays and linear arrays, respectively.
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spellingShingle MMSE Channel Estimation in Large-Scale MIMO: Improved Robustness with Reduced Complexity
Bacci, Giacomo
D'Amico, Antonio Alberto
Sanguinetti, Luca
Information Theory
Signal Processing
Large-scale MIMO systems with a massive number N of individually controlled antennas pose significant challenges for minimum mean square error (MMSE) channel estimation, based on uplink pilots. The major ones arise from the computational complexity, which scales with $N^3$, and from the need for accurate knowledge of the channel statistics. This paper aims to address both challenges by introducing reduced-complexity channel estimation methods that achieve the performance of MMSE in terms of estimation accuracy and uplink spectral efficiency while demonstrating improved robustness in practical scenarios where channel statistics must be estimated. This is achieved by exploiting the inherent structure of the spatial correlation matrix induced by the array geometry. Specifically, we use a Kronecker decomposition for uniform planar arrays and a well-suited circulant approximation for uniform linear arrays. By doing so, a significantly lower computational complexity is achieved, scaling as $N\sqrt{N}$ and $N\log N$ for squared planar arrays and linear arrays, respectively.
title MMSE Channel Estimation in Large-Scale MIMO: Improved Robustness with Reduced Complexity
topic Information Theory
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03279