We propose a novel method for joint two-dimensional (2D) direction-of-arrival (DOA) and channel estimation with data detection for uniform rectangular arrays (URAs) for the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO...We propose a novel method for joint two-dimensional (2D) direction-of-arrival (DOA) and channel estimation with data detection for uniform rectangular arrays (URAs) for the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The conventional DOA estimation algorithms usually assume that the channel impulse responses are known exactly. However, the large number of antennas in a massive MIMO system can lead to a challenge in estimating accurate corresponding channel impulse responses. In contrast, a joint DOA and channel estimation scheme is proposed, which first estimates the channel impulse responses for the links between the transmitters and antenna elements using training sequences. After that, the DOAs of the waves are estimated based on a unitary ESPRIT algorithm using previous channel impulse response estimates instead of accurate channel impulse responses and then, the enhanced channel impulse response estimates can be obtained. The proposed estimator enjoys closedform expressions, and thus it bypasses the search and pairing processes. In addition, a low-complexity approach toward data detection is presented by reducing the dimension of the inversion matrix in massive MIMO systems.Different cases for the proposed method are analyzed by changing the number of antennas. Experimental results demonstrate the validity of the proposed method.展开更多
In this paper,we propose improved approaches for two-dimensional(2 D) direction-of-arrival(DOA) estimation for a uniform rectangular array(URA).Unlike the conventional eigenstructure-based estimation approaches such a...In this paper,we propose improved approaches for two-dimensional(2 D) direction-of-arrival(DOA) estimation for a uniform rectangular array(URA).Unlike the conventional eigenstructure-based estimation approaches such as Multiple Signals Classification(MUSIC) and Estimation of Signal Parameters via Rotational Invariance Technique(ESPRIT),the proposed approaches estimate signal and noise subspaces with Nystr?m approximation,which only need to calculate two sub-matrices of the whole sample covariance matrix and avoid the need to directly calculate the eigenvalue decomposition(EVD) of the sample covariance matrix.Hence,the proposed approaches can improve the computational efficiency greatly for large-scale URAs.Numerical results verify the reliability and efficiency of the proposed approaches.展开更多
基金supported by Ericsson and the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61371075)
文摘We propose a novel method for joint two-dimensional (2D) direction-of-arrival (DOA) and channel estimation with data detection for uniform rectangular arrays (URAs) for the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The conventional DOA estimation algorithms usually assume that the channel impulse responses are known exactly. However, the large number of antennas in a massive MIMO system can lead to a challenge in estimating accurate corresponding channel impulse responses. In contrast, a joint DOA and channel estimation scheme is proposed, which first estimates the channel impulse responses for the links between the transmitters and antenna elements using training sequences. After that, the DOAs of the waves are estimated based on a unitary ESPRIT algorithm using previous channel impulse response estimates instead of accurate channel impulse responses and then, the enhanced channel impulse response estimates can be obtained. The proposed estimator enjoys closedform expressions, and thus it bypasses the search and pairing processes. In addition, a low-complexity approach toward data detection is presented by reducing the dimension of the inversion matrix in massive MIMO systems.Different cases for the proposed method are analyzed by changing the number of antennas. Experimental results demonstrate the validity of the proposed method.
基金supported by"the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities No.2017JBM016"
文摘In this paper,we propose improved approaches for two-dimensional(2 D) direction-of-arrival(DOA) estimation for a uniform rectangular array(URA).Unlike the conventional eigenstructure-based estimation approaches such as Multiple Signals Classification(MUSIC) and Estimation of Signal Parameters via Rotational Invariance Technique(ESPRIT),the proposed approaches estimate signal and noise subspaces with Nystr?m approximation,which only need to calculate two sub-matrices of the whole sample covariance matrix and avoid the need to directly calculate the eigenvalue decomposition(EVD) of the sample covariance matrix.Hence,the proposed approaches can improve the computational efficiency greatly for large-scale URAs.Numerical results verify the reliability and efficiency of the proposed approaches.
