Off-Grid Aware Channel and Covariance Estimation in mmWave Networks

The spectrum scarcity at sub-6 GHz spectrum has made millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequency band a key component of the next-generation wireless networks. While mmWave spectrum offers extremely large transmission bandwidths to accommodate ever-increasing data rates, unique characteristics of this new spectrum need special consideration to achieve the promised network throughput. In this work, we consider the off-grid targets (basis mismatch) problem for mmWave communications. The off-grid effect naturally appears in compressed sensing (CS) techniques adopting a discretization approach for representing the angular domain. This approach yields a finite set of discrete angle points, which are an approximation to the continuous angular space, and hence degrade the accuracy of related parameter estimation. In order to cope with the off-grid effect, we present a novel parameter-perturbation framework to efficiently estimate the channel and the covariance for mmWave networks. The proposed algorithms employ a smart perturbation mechanism in conjunction with a low-complexity greedy framework of simultaneous orthogonal matching pursuit (SOMP), and jointly solve for the off-grid parameters and weights. Numerical results show a significant performance improvement through our novel framework as a result of handling the off-grid effects, which is totally ignored in the conventional sparse mmWave channel or covariance estimation algorithms.

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