Shift and mutually orthogonal, multi-band pilot schemes for large-scale MIMO-OFDM systems
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Abstract
Large-scale (a.k.a. Massive) Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems are considered as a strong candidate to meet the exceptionally high spectral efficiency requirements for “beyond 4G” (or commonly termed 5G) wireless communications systems. For such systems, the availability of accurate uplink channel knowledge at the base station is critical to success, particularly in the time-division duplex (TDD) mode, where channel reciprocity is exploited to employ efficient downlink beamforming/precoding schemes. A major obstacle to acquiring such channel knowledge at the base station, however, is posed by the potential uplink pilot interference in multi-cell environments known as pilot contamination. In a recent contribution [1], it is shown that pilot contamination can be sidestepped with the aid of a simple interference management scheduling protocol. Building and expanding on [1], we elaborate on the design of shift-and mutually orthogonal pilots, and propose a multi-band operation to expand the number of users to be serviced in densely-populated areas. More specifically, the proposed design adjusts the transmission bandwidth to exploit the spatio-temporal resolution properties of wideband wireless channels, which, combined with the shift-orthogonality principle, enable to allocate identical frequency resources to a number of closely-spaced users. In addition, the pilot transmission technique presented herein minimizes guard interval overhead in the OFDM context, and can be realized with quasi-constant envelope, maximizing battery efficiency in user handsets.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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