1 January 2020

Wideband Channel Tracking for Millimeter Wave Massive Mimo Systems with Hybrid Beamforming Reception

Alexandropoulos, G. C., Vlachos, E., Thompson, J.
ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

Abstract

Millimeter Wave (mmWave) massive Multiple Input Multi- ple Output (MIMO) channel tracking is a challenging task with Hybrid analog and digital BeamForming (HBF) re- ception architectures. The wireless channel can only be spatially sampled with directive analog beams, which re- sults in lengthy training periods when beam codebooks are large. In this paper, we capitalize on a recently proposed HBF architecture enabling mmWave massive MIMO channel estimation with short beam training overhead, and present a matrix-completion-based channel tracking technique for time correlated HBF receivers. The considered channel track- ing problem is formulated as a constrained multi-objective optimization problem incorporating the low rank and group- sparse properties of the mmWave channel as well as a pop- ular model for its time correlation. We present an efficient algorithm for this estimation problem that is based on the alternating direction method of multipliers. Comparisons of the proposed approach over representative state-of-the- art techniques showcase the relation between the channel time correlation coefficient and the amount of beam training needed for acceptable channel estimation performance.

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Publication ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Date January 2020

Key Contributions

  • Proposed a matrix-completion-based channel tracking technique for time-correlated wideband mmWave massive MIMO channels with hybrid beamforming reception.
  • Formulated a constrained multi-objective optimization problem incorporating low-rank and group-sparse properties of the mmWave channel.
  • Capitalized on a time correlation model to reduce beam training overhead while maintaining estimation accuracy.
  • Developed an efficient algorithm based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving the optimization problem.

Results & Insights

The figure demonstrates that the proposed technique achieves near-optimal performance with significantly reduced training overhead, converging faster and achieving lower NMSE than OMP and AdaOMP for time-varying channels.

The results show that the proposed technique maintains low NMSE and achieves high achievable spectral efficiency even with short training sequences, highlighting its effectiveness in reducing beam training overhead while preserving channel estimation accuracy.