On the amount of training in coordinated massive MIMO systems

Coordinated training significantly reduces the impact of pilot contamination in massive MIMO systems. Moreover, coordinated systems can use additional training resources in an effective manner, making it worthwhile to spend more resources on training than the necessary minimum. For a fixed channel coherence time, we analyze the trade-off between spending resources on training or data symbols for the uncoordinated and the coordinated case.

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