Deep CNN-Based Channel Estimation for mmWave Massive MIMO Systems

For millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, hybrid processing architecture is usually used to reduce the complexity and cost, which poses a very challenging issue in channel estimation. In this paper, deep convolutional neural network (CNN) is employed to addr...

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Published in:IEEE journal of selected topics in signal processing Vol. 13; no. 5; pp. 989 - 1000
Main Authors: Dong, Peihao, Zhang, Hua, Li, Geoffrey Ye, Gaspar, Ivan Simoes, NaderiAlizadeh, Navid
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York IEEE 01.09.2019
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Artificial neural networks
channel correlation
Channel estimation
Channels
Complexity
Correlation
deep CNN
Hybrid systems
Millimeter waves
MIMO (control systems)
mmWave massive MIMO
OFDM
Radio frequency
Receivers
Robustness (mathematics)
Subcarriers
Transmitters
ISSN:1932-4553, 1941-0484
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Summary:For millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, hybrid processing architecture is usually used to reduce the complexity and cost, which poses a very challenging issue in channel estimation. In this paper, deep convolutional neural network (CNN) is employed to address this problem. We first propose a spatial-frequency CNN (SF-CNN) based channel estimation exploiting both the spatial and frequency correlation, where the corrupted channel matrices at adjacent subcarriers are input into the CNN simultaneously. Then, exploiting the temporal correlation in time-varying channels, a spatial-frequency-temporal CNN (SFT-CNN) based approach is developed to further improve the accuracy. Moreover, we design a spatial pilot-reduced CNN (SPR-CNN) to save spatial pilot overhead for channel estimation, where channels in several successive coherence intervals are grouped and estimated by a channel estimation unit with memory. Numerical results show that the proposed SF-CNN and SFT-CNN based approaches outperform the non-ideal minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) estimator but with reduced complexity, and achieve the performance close to the ideal MMSE estimator that is very difficult to be implemented in practical situations. They are also robust to different propagation scenarios. The SPR-CNN based approach achieves comparable performance to SF-CNN and SFT-CNN based approaches while only requires about one-third of spatial pilot overhead at the cost of complexity. The results in this paper clearly demonstrate that deep CNN can efficiently exploit channel correlation to improve the estimation performance for mmWave massive MIMO systems.
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ISSN:1932-4553
1941-0484
DOI:10.1109/JSTSP.2019.2925975