Channel Estimation for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Upper Mid-Band MIMO Systems
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| author | Lee, Jeongjae Kim, Chanwon Hong, Songnam |
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| contents | The upper mid-band (UMB) spectrum is a key enabler for 6G systems, yet reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted UMB communications face severe channel estimation challenges due to near-field propagation and transitional scattering, which induce strong spatial correlation and ill-conditioned least-squares (LS) formulations. To overcome this limitation, we propose a conditioning-aware channel estimation framework that transforms the inherently ill-conditioned high-dimensional problem into multiple well-conditioned subproblems via greedy column grouping. By systematically separating highly correlated RIS elements into distinct sub-blocks via piecewise RIS phase design, the proposed method directly improves Gram matrix conditioning and stabilizes piecewise LS reconstruction without relying on sparsity assumptions. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms conventional LS and OMP-based estimators in pilot-limited and transitional UMB regimes, achieving robust performance with low computational complexity. |
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| spellingShingle | Channel Estimation for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Upper Mid-Band MIMO Systems Lee, Jeongjae Kim, Chanwon Hong, Songnam Signal Processing The upper mid-band (UMB) spectrum is a key enabler for 6G systems, yet reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted UMB communications face severe channel estimation challenges due to near-field propagation and transitional scattering, which induce strong spatial correlation and ill-conditioned least-squares (LS) formulations. To overcome this limitation, we propose a conditioning-aware channel estimation framework that transforms the inherently ill-conditioned high-dimensional problem into multiple well-conditioned subproblems via greedy column grouping. By systematically separating highly correlated RIS elements into distinct sub-blocks via piecewise RIS phase design, the proposed method directly improves Gram matrix conditioning and stabilizes piecewise LS reconstruction without relying on sparsity assumptions. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms conventional LS and OMP-based estimators in pilot-limited and transitional UMB regimes, achieving robust performance with low computational complexity. |
| title | Channel Estimation for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Upper Mid-Band MIMO Systems |
| topic | Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06017 |