Alternating Channel Estimation and Prediction for Cell-Free mMIMO with Channel Aging: A Deep Learning Based Scheme

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.07868v1
• Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2022 20:27:01 GMT
• Title: Alternating Channel Estimation and Prediction for Cell-Free mMIMO with Channel Aging: A Deep Learning Based Scheme
• Authors: Mohanad Obeed, Yasser Al-Eryani, and Anas Chaaban
• Abstract summary: In large scale dynamic wireless networks, the amount of overhead caused by channel estimation (CE) is becoming one of the main performance bottlenecks. We propose a new hybrid channel estimation/prediction scheme to reduce overhead in time-division duplex (TDD) wireless cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) systems.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In large scale dynamic wireless networks, the amount of overhead caused by channel estimation (CE) is becoming one of the main performance bottlenecks. This is due to the large number users whose channels should be estimated, the user mobility, and the rapid channel change caused by the usage of the high-frequency spectrum (e.g. millimeter wave). In this work, we propose a new hybrid channel estimation/prediction (CEP) scheme to reduce overhead in time-division duplex (TDD) wireless cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) systems. The scheme proposes sending a pilot signal from each user only once in a given number (window) of coherence intervals (CIs). Then minimum mean-square error (MMSE) estimation is used to estimate the channel of this CI, while a deep neural network (DNN) is used to predict the channels of the remaining CIs in the window. The DNN exploits the temporal correlation between the consecutive CIs and the received pilot signals to improve the channel prediction accuracy. By doing so, CE overhead is reduced by at least 50 percent at the expense of negligible CE error for practical user mobility settings. Consequently, the proposed CEP scheme improves the spectral efficiency compared to the conventional MMSE CE approach, especially when the number of users is large, which is demonstrated numerically.

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