Journal
IEEE ACCESS
Volume 5, Issue -, Pages 24747-24757Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2768579
Keywords
2D unitary ESPRIT; super-resolution; AoAs and AoDs estimation; hybrid precoding; millimeter-wave (mmWave); massive MIMO
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61701027, 61671294]
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Millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) with hybrid precoding is a promising technique for the future 5G wireless communications. Due to a large number of antennas but a much smaller number of radio frequency chains, estimating the high-dimensional mmWave massive MIMO channel will bring the large pilot overhead. To overcome this challenge, this paper proposes a super-resolution channel estimation scheme based on 2-D unitary ESPRIT algorithm. By exploiting the angular sparsity of mm Wave channels, the continuously distributed angle of arrivals/departures (AoAs/AoDs) can be jointly estimated with high accuracy. Specifically, by designing the uplink training signals at both base station and mobile station, we first use low pilot overhead to estimate a low-dimensional effective channel, which has the same shift-invariance of array response as the high-dimensional mmWave MIMO channel to be estimated. From the low-dimensional effective channel, the super-resolution estimates of AoAs and AoDs can be jointly obtained by exploiting the 2-D unitary ESPRIT channel estimation algorithm. Furthermore, the associated path gains can be acquired based on the least squares criterion. Finally, we can reconstruct the high-dimensional mmWave MIMO channel according to the obtained AoAs, AoDs, and path gains. Simulation results have confirmed that the proposed scheme is superior to conventional schemes with a much lower pilot overhead.
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