Massive MIMO systems can achieve high spectrum and energy efficiency in downlink (DL) based on accurate estimate of channel state information (CSI). Existing works have developed learning-based DL CSI estimation that lowers uplink feedback overhead. One often overlooked problem is the limited number of DL pilots available for CSI estimation. One proposed solution leverages temporal CSI coherence by utilizing past CSI estimates and only sending CSI-reference symbols (CSIRS) for partial arrays to preserve CSI recovery performance. Exploiting CSI correlations, FDD channel reciprocity is helpful to base stations with direct access to uplink CSI. In this work, we propose a new learning-based feedback architecture and a reconfigurable CSI-RS placement scheme to reduce DL CSI training overhead and to improve encoding efficiency of CSI feedback. Our results demonstrate superior performance in both indoor and outdoor scenarios by the proposed framework for CSI recovery at substantial reduction of computation power and storage requirements at UEs.
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Learning-Based MIMO Channel Estimation under Practical Pilot Sparsity and Feedback Compression
Wireless links using massive MIMO transceivers are vital for next generation wireless communications networks. Precoding in Massive MIMO transmission requires accurate downlink channel state information (CSI). Many recent works have effectively applied deep learning (DL) to jointly train UE-side compression networks for delay domain CSI and a BS-side decoding scheme. Vitally, these works assume that the full delay domain CSI is available at the UE, but in reality, the UE must estimate the delay domain based on a limited number of frequency domain pilots. In this work, we propose a linear pilot-to-delay estimator (P2DE) that acquires the truncated delay CSI via sparse frequency pilots. We show the accuracy of the P2DE under frequency downsampling, and we demonstrate the P2DE’s efficacy when utilized with existing CSI estimation networks. Additionally, we propose to use trainable compressed sensing (CS) networks in a differential encoding network for time-varying CSI estimation, and we propose a new network, MarkovNet-ISTA-ENet (MN-IE), which combines a CS network for initial CSI estimation and multiple autoencoders to estimate the error terms. We demonstrate that MN-IE has better asymptotic performance than networks comprised of only one type of network.
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- PAR ID:
- 10351779
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- IEEE transactions on wireless communications
- Volume:
- 22
- Issue:
- 2
- ISSN:
- 1558-2248
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 1161-1174
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- Journal Article:
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2022.3202750
