Channel Sounding for Multi-User Massive MIMO in Distributed Antenna System Environment

We propose a generation scheme for a sounding reference signal (SRS) suitable for supporting a large number of users in massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system with a distributed antenna system (DAS) environment. The proposed SRS can alleviate the pilot contamination problem which occurs inherently in the multi-user system due to the limited number of orthogonal sequences. The proposed SRS sequence is generated by applying a well-chosen phase rotation to the conventional LTE/LTE-A SRS sequences without requiring an increased amount of resource usage. We also propose using the correlation-aided channel estimation algorithm as a supplemental scheme to obtain more reliable and refined channel estimation. It is shown that the proposed SRS sequence and the supplemental channel estimation scheme improve significantly the channel estimation performance in multi-user massive MIMO systems.

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