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Blind downlink channel estimation for TDD-based multiuser massive MIMO in the presence of nonlinear HPA

  • Pasangi, Parisa (Department of Electrical Engineering, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University) ;
  • Atashbar, Mahmoud (Department of Electrical Engineering, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University) ;
  • Feghhi, Mahmood Mohassel (Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tabriz)
  • Received : 2018.06.29
  • Accepted : 2018.10.22
  • Published : 2019.08.02
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Abstract

In time division duplex (TDD)-based multiuser massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems, the uplink channel is estimated and the results are used in downlink for signal detection. Owing to noisy uplink channel estimation, the downlink channel should also be estimated for accurate signal detection. Therefore, recently, a blind method was developed, which assumes the use of a linear high-power amplifier (HPA) in the base station (BS). In this study, we extend this method to a scenario with a nonlinear HPA in the BS, where the Bussgang decomposition is used for HPA modeling. In the proposed method, the average power of the received signal for each user is a function of channel gain, large-scale fading, and nonlinear distortion variance. Therefore, the channel gain is estimated, which is required for signal detection. The performance of the proposed method is analyzed theoretically. The simulation results show superior performance of the proposed method compared to that of the other methods in the literature.

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