Pilot design for large-scale multi-cell multiuser MIMO systems

Large-scale multi-cell multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (LS-MIMO) systems can greatly increase the spectral efficiency. But the performance of these systems is deteriorated by pilot contamination. In this paper, first, a pilot design criterion is proposed by exploiting the orthogonality of c...

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Main Authors: Anzhong Hu, Tiejun Lv, Hui Gao, Yueming Lu, Enjie Liu
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Antennas
Channel estimation
Contamination
Correlation
Fading
MIMO
Vectors
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Summary:Large-scale multi-cell multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (LS-MIMO) systems can greatly increase the spectral efficiency. But the performance of these systems is deteriorated by pilot contamination. In this paper, first, a pilot design criterion is proposed by exploiting the orthogonality of channel vectors of LS-MIMO systems. Second, following this criterion, Chu sequences based pilots are designed. Because of the proposed pilots, the channel estimate of most terminals of a cell is only interfered by the partial cells rather than all the other cells, where the latter is caused by traditional pilots. As a result, pilot contamination is mitigated. Numerical results verify the effectiveness of the proposed pilots.
ISSN:1550-3607
1938-1883
DOI:10.1109/ICC.2013.6655444