Observation Matrix Design for Densifying MIMO Channel Estimation via 2D Ice Filling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08887v1
• Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:54:36 GMT
• Title: Observation Matrix Design for Densifying MIMO Channel Estimation via 2D Ice Filling
• Authors: Zijian Zhang, Mingyao Cui,
• Abstract summary: A two-dimensional ice-filling (2DIF) algorithm is proposed to efficiently accomplish this objective.<n>A two-stage 2DIF (TS-2DIF) algorithm is developed to handle the analog combining circuits realized by phase shifters.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: In recent years, densifying multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) has attracted much attention from the communication community. Thanks to the subwavelength antenna spacing, the strong correlations among densifying antennas provide sufficient prior knowledge about channel state information (CSI). This inspires the careful design of observation matrices (e.g., transmit precoders and receive combiners), that exploits the CSI prior knowledge, to boost channel estimation performance. Aligned with this vision, this work proposes to jointly design the combiners and precoders by maximizing the mutual information between the received pilots and densifying MIMO channels. A two-dimensional ice-filling (2DIF) algorithm is proposed to efficiently accomplish this objective. The algorithm is motivated by the fact that the eigenspace of MIMO channel covariance can be decoupled into two sub-eigenspaces, which are associated with the correlations of transmitter antennas and receiver antennas, respectively. By properly setting the precoder and the combiner as the eigenvectors from these two sub-eigenspaces, the 2DIF promises to generate near-optimal observation matrices. Moreover, we further extend the 2DIF method to the popular hybrid combining systems, where a two-stage 2DIF (TS-2DIF) algorithm is developed to handle the analog combining circuits realized by phase shifters. Simulation results demonstrate that, compared to the state-of-the-art schemes, the proposed 2DIF and TS-2DIF methods can achieve superior channel estimation accuracy.

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