Blind Pilot Decontamination
Conference: WSA 2013 - 17th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas
03/13/2013 - 03/14/2013 at Stuttgart, Deutschland
Proceedings: WSA 2013
Pages: 6Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Mueller, Ralf R. (Dept Electronics & Telecommunications, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway)
Vehkaperae, Mikko (Dept Signal Processing & Acoustics, Aalto University, 02150 Espoo, Finland)
Cottatellucci, Laura (Institute Eurecom, 450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France)
Abstract:
We propose a nonlinear channel estimation method based on a subspace projection that is suitable for asymmetric antenna array systems. We show that the so-called pilot contamination problem reported in [1], is an artefact of (inappropriate) linear channel estimation and does not occur in cellular systems with power-controlled handoff when the channel estimation method proposed in this paper is used. We intuitively explain our result by establishing an isomorphism between a massive MIMO system and a spread-spectrum system with unknown signature sequences.