Achieving the performance of the MMSE receiver with the maximum ratio combiner

Abstract

In this article, we propose a new pilot mapping method to jointly estimate the channel state information of the user while reducing the interference effects of multiuser multicell mobile scenarios. The problem of achieving the wireless performance of the minimum mean square error (MMSE) receiver with the maximum ratio (MR) combiner for massive multiple‐input multiple‐output (MIMO) systems in the frequency bands of 2.5 GHz and 28 GHz is addressed. By transmitting fewer pilots in the uplink communications and arranging those pilots to reduce interuser interference, we can achieve higher spectral efficiency (SE) with the MR and MMSE receivers. Numerical results show significantly fewer floating‐point operations for MIMO processing when the proposed pilot mapping strategy is combined with Kalman filtering estimation and MR processing, achieving an SE comparable to the MMSE receiver.