Channel Estimation for Uniform Rectangular Array Based Massive MIMO Systems With Low Complexity

In this paper, a low complexity channel estimation method is proposed for two-dimensional (2-D) massive MIMO systems with uniform rectangular arrays of antennas. Instead of assuming independent fading between different transmit–receive antenna pairs, an array-structure-based physical channel model that characterizes the realistic scattering environments via the angles and gains associated with different propagation paths is studied. A 2-D Fourier-transform (FT) based on elevation and azimuth steering factors is applied to derive the spatial spectrum of received signals in angular domain at base station. Based on the spectrum analysis, the spatial spectrum of the received data is used to estimate the channel parameters, including direction of arrival (incident azimuth and elevation angles) and the path amplitude of each resolvable path. Since the channel coefficients are estimated in spatial domain and the proposed 2-D FT can be realized by fast-Fourier-transform, the computational complexity is reduced significantly. Simulation results are provided to verify the accuracy and the complexity of the proposed scheme.

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