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Low-Rank Channel Estimation for Millimeter Wave and Terahertz Hybrid MIMO Systems
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is one of the fundamental technologies for 5G and beyond. The increased number of antenna elements at both the transmitter and the receiver translates into a large-dimension channel matrix. In addition, the power requirements for the massive MIMO systems are high, especially when fully digital transceivers are deployed. To address this challenge, hybrid analog-digital transceivers are considered a viable alternative. However, for hybrid systems, the number of observations during each channel use is reduced. The high dimensions of the channel matrix and the reduced number of observations make the channel estimation task challenging. Thus, channel estimation may require increased training overhead and higher computational complexity.
The need for high data rates is increasing rapidly, forcing a shift of wireless communication towards higher frequency bands such as millimeter Wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz). The wireless channel at these bands is comprised of only a few dominant paths. This makes the channel sparse in the angular domain and the resulting channel matrix has a low rank. This thesis aims to provide channel estimation solutions benefiting from the low rankness and sparse nature of the channel. The motivation behind this thesis is to offer a desirable trade-off between training overhead and computational complexity while providing a desirable estimate of the channel
Optimal Precoders for Tracking the AoD and AoA of a mm-Wave Path
In millimeter-wave channels, most of the received energy is carried by a few
paths. Traditional precoders sweep the angle-of-departure (AoD) and
angle-of-arrival (AoA) space with directional precoders to identify directions
with largest power. Such precoders are heuristic and lead to sub-optimal
AoD/AoA estimation. We derive optimal precoders, minimizing the Cram\'{e}r-Rao
bound (CRB) of the AoD/AoA, assuming a fully digital architecture at the
transmitter and spatial filtering of a single path. The precoders are found by
solving a suitable convex optimization problem. We demonstrate that the
accuracy can be improved by at least a factor of two over traditional
precoders, and show that there is an optimal number of distinct precoders
beyond which the CRB does not improve.Comment: Resubmission to IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing. 12 pages and 9
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Inductive Matrix Completion and Root-MUSIC-Based Channel Estimation for Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS)-Aided Hybrid MIMO Systems
This paper studies the estimation of cascaded channels in passive intelligent
reflective surface (IRS)- aided multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems
employing hybrid precoders and combiners. We propose a low-complexity solution
that estimates the channel parameters progressively. The angles of departure
(AoDs) and angles of arrival (AoAs) at the transmitter and receiver,
respectively, are first estimated using inductive matrix completion (IMC)
followed by root-MUSIC based super-resolution spectrum estimation.
Forward-backward spatial smoothing (FBSS) is applied to address the coherence
issue. Using the estimated AoAs and AoDs, the training precoders and combiners
are then optimized and the angle differences between the AoAs and AoDs at the
IRS are estimated using the least squares (LS) method followed by FBSS and the
root-MUSIC algorithm. Finally, the composite path gains of the cascaded channel
are estimated using on-grid sparse recovery with a small-size dictionary. The
simulation results suggest that the proposed estimator can achieve improved
channel parameter estimation performance with lower complexity as compared to
several recently reported alternatives, thanks to the exploitation of the
knowledge of the array responses and low-rankness of the channel using
low-complexity algorithms at all the stages.Comment: Submitted to IEE
Signal Processing in Arrayed MIMO Systems
Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems, using antenna arrays at both
receiver and transmitter, have shown great potential to provide high bandwidth
utilization efficiency. Unlike other reported research on MIMO systems which
often assumes independent antennas, in this thesis an arrayed MIMO system
framework is proposed, which provides a richer description of the channel charac-
teristics and additional degrees of freedom in designing communication systems.
Firstly, the spatial correlated MIMO system is studied as an array-to-array
system with each array (Tx or Rx) having predefined constrained aperture. The
MIMO system is completely characterized by its transmit and receive array man-
ifolds and a new spatial correlation model other than Kronecker-based model is
proposed. As this model is based on array manifolds, it enables the study of the
effect of array geometry on the capacity of correlated MIMO channels.
Secondly, to generalize the proposed arrayed MIMO model to a frequency
selective fading scenario, the framework of uplink MIMO DS-CDMA (Direct-
Sequence Code Division Multiple Access) systems is developed. DOD estimation
is developed based on transmit beamrotation. A subspace-based joint DOA/TOA
estimation scheme as well as various spatial temporal reception algorithms is also
proposed.
Finally, the downlink MIMO-CDMA systems in multiple-access multipath fading channels are investigated. Linear precoder and decoder optimization problems
are studied under different criterions. Optimization approaches with different
power allocation schemes are investigated. Sub-optimization approaches with
close-form solution and thus less computation complexity are also proposed
Time-Frequency-Space Transmit Design and Signal Processing with Dynamic Subarray for Terahertz Integrated Sensing and Communication
Terahertz (THz) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) enables
simultaneous data transmission with Terabit-per-second (Tbps) rate and
millimeter-level accurate sensing. To realize such a blueprint, ultra-massive
antenna arrays with directional beamforming are used to compensate for severe
path loss in the THz band. In this paper, the time-frequency-space transmit
design is investigated for THz ISAC to generate time-varying scanning sensing
beams and stable communication beams. Specifically, with the dynamic
array-of-subarray (DAoSA) hybrid beamforming architecture and multi-carrier
modulation, two ISAC hybrid precoding algorithms are proposed, namely, a
vectorization (VEC) based algorithm that outperforms existing ISAC hybrid
precoding methods and a low-complexity sensing codebook assisted (SCA)
approach. Meanwhile, coupled with the transmit design, parameter estimation
algorithms are proposed to realize high-accuracy sensing, including a wideband
DAoSA MUSIC (W-DAoSA-MUSIC) method for angle estimation and a sum-DFT-GSS
(S-DFT-GSS) approach for range and velocity estimation. Numerical results
indicate that the proposed algorithms can realize centi-degree-level angle
estimation accuracy and millimeter-level range estimation accuracy, which are
one or two orders of magnitudes better than the methods in the millimeter-wave
band. In addition, to overcome the cyclic prefix limitation and Doppler effects
in the THz band, an inter-symbol interference- and inter-carrier
interference-tackled sensing algorithm is developed to refine sensing
capabilities for THz ISAC
Cyclic Prefix-Free MC-CDMA Arrayed MIMO Communication Systems
The objective of this thesis is to investigate MC-CDMA MIMO systems where
the antenna array geometry is taken into consideration. In most MC-CDMA
systems, cyclic pre xes, which reduce the spectral e¢ ciency, are used. In order
to improve the spectral efficiency, this research study is focused on cyclic pre x-
free MC-CDMA MIMO architectures.
Initially, space-time wireless channel models are developed by considering the
spatio-temporal mechanisms of the radio channel, such as multipath propaga-
tion. The spatio-temporal channel models are based on the concept of the array
manifold vector, which enables the parametric modelling of the channel.
The array manifold vector is extended to the multi-carrier space-time array
(MC-STAR) manifold matrix which enables the use of spatio-temporal signal
processing techniques. Based on the modelling, a new cyclic pre x-free MC-
CDMA arrayed MIMO communication system is proposed and its performance
is compared with a representative existing system. Furthermore, a MUSIC-type
algorithm is then developed for the estimation of the channel parameters of the
received signal.
This proposed cyclic pre x-free MC-CDMA arrayed MIMO system is then
extended to consider the effects of spatial diffusion in the wireless channel. Spatial
diffusion is an important channel impairment which is often ignored and the
failure to consider such effects leads to less than satisfactory performance. A
subspace-based approach is proposed for the estimation of the channel parameters
and spatial spread and reception of the desired signal.
Finally, the problem of joint optimization of the transmit and receive beam-
forming weights in the downlink of a cyclic pre x-free MC-CDMA arrayed MIMO
communication system is investigated. A subcarrier-cooperative approach is used
for the transmit beamforming so that there is greater flexibility in the allocation
of channel symbols. The resulting optimization problem, with a per-antenna
transmit power constraint, is solved by the Lagrange multiplier method and an
iterative algorithm is proposed
Matrix Completion-Based Channel Estimation for MmWave Communication Systems With Array-Inherent Impairments
Hybrid massive MIMO structures with reduced hardware complexity and power
consumption have been widely studied as a potential candidate for millimeter
wave (mmWave) communications. Channel estimators that require knowledge of the
array response, such as those using compressive sensing (CS) methods, may
suffer from performance degradation when array-inherent impairments bring
unknown phase errors and gain errors to the antenna elements. In this paper, we
design matrix completion (MC)-based channel estimation schemes which are robust
against the array-inherent impairments. We first design an open-loop training
scheme that can sample entries from the effective channel matrix randomly and
is compatible with the phase shifter-based hybrid system. Leveraging the
low-rank property of the effective channel matrix, we then design a channel
estimator based on the generalized conditional gradient (GCG) framework and the
alternating minimization (AltMin) approach. The resulting estimator is immune
to array-inherent impairments and can be implemented to systems with any array
shapes for its independence of the array response. In addition, we extend our
design to sample a transformed channel matrix following the concept of
inductive matrix completion (IMC), which can be solved efficiently using our
proposed estimator and achieve similar performance with a lower requirement of
the dynamic range of the transmission power per antenna. Numerical results
demonstrate the advantages of our proposed MC-based channel estimators in terms
of estimation performance, computational complexity and robustness against
array-inherent impairments over the orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP)-based CS
channel estimator.Comment: This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication.
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