Pilot contamination mitigation based on antenna subset transmission for mmWave massive MIMO

Abstract

This paper tackles the problem of pilot contamination (PC) in mmWave Massive MIMO cellular systems. We propose an analog precoder based on antenna subset transmission technique to mitigate the PC. This technique ensures the interfering signal to become noise-like signal thus helping a more efficient estimation of channel coefficients. Also, this strategy is low cost and introduces no complexity load. The result shows the effectiveness of the proposed precoder to mitigate PC issue. KEYWORDS antenna set transmission, massive MIMO, millimeter wave, pilot contamination Int J Commun Syst. 2018;31:e3768.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/dac