Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 67, Issue 5, Pages 3205-3219Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2019.2892719
Keywords
Massive MIMO; mmWave; channel estimation; minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) estimator; generalized approximate message passing (GAMP)
Funding
- NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Canada Research Chairs program
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This paper tackles the problem of millimeter-wave (mmWave) channel estimation in massive MIMO communication systems. A new Bayes-optimal channel estimator is derived using recent advances in the approximate belief propagation Bayesian inference paradigm. By leveraging the inherent sparsity of the mmWave MIMO channel in the angular domain, we recast the underlying channel estimation problem into that of reconstructing a compressible signal from a set of noisy linear measurements. Then, the generalized approximate message passing (GAMP) algorithm is used to find the entries of the unknown mmWave MIMO channel matrix. Unlike all the existing works on the same topic, we model the angular-domain channel coefficients by Laplacian distributed random variables. Furthermore, we establish the closed-form expressions for the various statistical quantities that need to be updated iteratively by GAMP. To render the proposed algorithm fully automated, we also develop an expectation-maximization (EM) based procedure that can be easily embedded within GAMP's iteration loop in order to learn all the unknown parameters of the underlying Bayesian inference problem. The computer simulations show that the proposed combined EM-GAMP algorithm under a Laplacian prior exhibits improvements both in terms of channel estimation accuracy, achievable rate, and computational complexity, as compared to the Gaussian mixture prior that has been advocated in the recent literature. In addition, it is found that the Laplacian prior speeds up the convergence time of GAMP over the entire signal-to-noise ratio range.
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