Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2016, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (1): 1-11.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2016.01.001

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Pilot Design Based on Pseudo-random Code in Massive MIMO System

FANG Xin1,2, ZHANG Jian-feng1, CAO Hai-yan1, YING Na1   

  1. 1. College of Communications Engineering, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China;
    2. National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
  • Received:2015-04-15 Revised:2015-06-15 Online:2016-01-30 Published:2016-01-30

Abstract: To deal with pilot contamination in massive MIMO systems, an efficient pilot design scheme is proposed. Different pseudo-random codes are assigned to different cells, all using the same set of orthogonal pilots. These codes are used to scramble the user pilot in each cell to get a transmission pilot. Mean square error (MSE) performance of expected channel estimation is derived and analyzed. Simulation results show that the channel estimation performance can be effectively improved when a proper pseudo-random code is chosen with the proposed pilot design method. It can greatly enhance the downlink performance in all cells.

Key words: massive MIMO, pilot contamination, channel estimation, pseudo-random code

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