Efficient Channel Estimation for Wideband Millimeter Wave Massive MIMO Systems With Beam Squint
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Abstract
Massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) and millimeter wave have been adopted as the enabling technologies for the 5G and beyond 5G (B5G) systems. A challenging problem introduced by the use of large antenna size and wide bandwidth is beam squint, i.e., spatial-wideband effect. Beam squint can significantly degrade the channel estimation performance for conventional channel estimators. Research effort on channel estimation under beam squint conditions has been very limited. For the few available work that attempts to address this problem, they require either all subcarriers or multiple symbols used as pilot for channel estimation, so large overhead becomes inevitable. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an efficient channel estimation method that only requires a small number of subcarriers. The channel estimation problem is formulated as a nonlinear least squares optimization problem. Initial parameter estimation is critical, which will affect the efficiency and convergence of the proposed algorithm. Using a densely-spaced antenna structure and consecutive subcarriers assignment approach, we can effectively avoid the aliasing effect and reduce the ambiguity during the initialization phase. A subcarrier assignment criterion is proposed to achieve the optimal performance. Closed-form expressions of the Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB) and the achievable rate are derived to evaluate the performance. Both simulation results and theoretical analysis show that even with a small number of subcarriers, the estimation error closely approaches the CRLB, and its effect is negligible compared with the noise when evaluating the signal-to-noise ratio with a simple linear detector. Furthermore, the number of pilot subcarriers has little impact on the achievable rate.
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| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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