In this paper, we propose two deep-learning based uplink channel estimation approaches that can utilize not only high-resolution-ADC-quantized but also low-resolution-ADC-quantized received pilot signals to improve estimation performance for mixed analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) massive multipleinput multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In each approach, low-resolution-ADC-quantized received pilot signals are utilized with one of three different schemes, i.e., High-resolution quantized pilot + All lowresolution quantized pilot(High+All), High-resolution quantized pilot + Argument of low-resolution quantized pilot (High+Arg) or High-resolution quantized pilot + Modulus of low-resolution quantized pilot (High+Mod). All three schemes include the intact quantized pilot signals at high-resolution antennas, but the quantized pilot signals at low-resolution ADCs are exploited differently in each scheme. Modified selectiveinput prediction deep neural network (Modified SIP-DNN) is developed to predict more realistic channels and test the effectiveness of the utilization scheme. To achieve further performance improvement, a deep neural network (DNN) based two-stage network is proposed where the recovering DNN (RC-DNN) in the first stage forms a coarse estimation for channels at antennas with low-resolution ADCs and the refining DNN (Ref-DNN) in the second stage outputs a refined estimation for channels at all antennas. Simulation results show that our proposed approaches outperform state-of-the-art channel estimation method especially when most antennas are equipped with low-resolution ADCs.
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