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Title: Compressive Sensing for Wireless Systems with Massive Antenna Arrays
Abstract: Over the past two decades the world has enjoyed exponential growth in wireless connectivity that has fundamentally changed the way people communicate and has opened the door to limitless new applications. With the advent of 5G, users will now begin to enjoy enhanced mobile broadband links supporting peak rates of over 10 gigabit per second. The 5G capability will also support massive machine type communications and less than one millisecond latency communications to support ultra-reliable low communication. Continuing to achieve greater increases in system capacity requires the continual advancement of new technology to make efficient use of finite spectrum resources.
Researchers have studied Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) communications over the last several decades as a way to increase system capacity. The MIMO channel is composed of multiple transmit (input) antennas and multiple (output) receive antennas. The channel is represented as the impulse response between each transmit and receive antenna pair. In the simplest of channels, the pairwise impulse response reduces to a single coefficient. Many theoretical MIMO results rely on Rayleigh channels featuring independently distributed complex Gaussian variables as channel coefficients.
The concept of Massive MIMO emerged a decade ago and is a leading technology in 5G wireless. Massive MIMO features base stations that have massive antenna arrays that simultaneously service many users. The Massive MIMO array has many more antennas than users. Unlike traditional phased array antennas, Massive MIMO arrays have all (or a large portion of) their antennas connected to receive chains for baseband processing. Successfully decoding each user’s data stream requires estimates of the propagation channel. Channel estimation is usually aided through the use of pilot signals that are known to both the user terminal and the base station. Simultaneously estimating the channel matrix between each user and each antenna in a massive MIMO array creates challenges for pilot sequence design. More channel resources reserved for pilot sequences for channel estimation result in fewer resources for user data.
Several efforts have shown that the mm wave massive MIMO channel exhibits several sparse features. The number of distinct and resolvable paths between a user and a massive MIMO array is generally much less than the number of base station antennas. Early theoretical MIMO work relied on Rayleigh channels as they are useful for closed form solutions. In reality, the Massive MIMO mm wave channel is low rank as it can be modeled by a smaller number of resolvable multipath components. This opens opportunities for new channel estimation techniques using compressive sensing and sparse recovery.
Although Massive MIMO will be featured in future 5G services, there is still much untapped potential. Through developing better channel estimation schemes, additional system throughput can be achieved. This work will consider:
Generation of sparse mm Wave channels for analysis
Multi-user pilot design approaches for measuring the massive MIMO channel
Channel estimates formed through sparse recovery methods