In this paper,we focus on the channel estimation for multi-user MIMO-OFDM systems in rich scattering environments.We find that channel sparsity in the delay-angle domain is severely compromised in rich scattering envi...In this paper,we focus on the channel estimation for multi-user MIMO-OFDM systems in rich scattering environments.We find that channel sparsity in the delay-angle domain is severely compromised in rich scattering environments,so that most existing compressed sensing(CS)based techniques can harvest a very limited gain(if any)in reducing the channel estimation overhead.To address the problem,we propose the learning-based turbo message passing(LTMP)algorithm.Instead of exploiting the channel sparsity,LTMP is able to efficiently extract the channel feature via deep learning as well as to exploit the channel continuity in the frequency domain via block-wise linear modelling.More specifically,as a component of LTMP,we develop a multi-scale parallel dilated convolutional neural network(MPDCNN),which leverages frequency-space channel correlation in different scales for channel denoising.We evaluate the LTMP’s performance in MIMO-OFDM channels using the 3rd generation partnership project(3GPP)clustered delay line(CDL)channel models.Simulation results show that the proposed channel estimation method has more than 5 dB power gain than the existing algorithms when the normalized mean-square error of the channel estimation is-20 dB.The proposed algorithm also exhibits strong robustness in various environments.展开更多
基金supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant 2020YFB1804800.
文摘In this paper,we focus on the channel estimation for multi-user MIMO-OFDM systems in rich scattering environments.We find that channel sparsity in the delay-angle domain is severely compromised in rich scattering environments,so that most existing compressed sensing(CS)based techniques can harvest a very limited gain(if any)in reducing the channel estimation overhead.To address the problem,we propose the learning-based turbo message passing(LTMP)algorithm.Instead of exploiting the channel sparsity,LTMP is able to efficiently extract the channel feature via deep learning as well as to exploit the channel continuity in the frequency domain via block-wise linear modelling.More specifically,as a component of LTMP,we develop a multi-scale parallel dilated convolutional neural network(MPDCNN),which leverages frequency-space channel correlation in different scales for channel denoising.We evaluate the LTMP’s performance in MIMO-OFDM channels using the 3rd generation partnership project(3GPP)clustered delay line(CDL)channel models.Simulation results show that the proposed channel estimation method has more than 5 dB power gain than the existing algorithms when the normalized mean-square error of the channel estimation is-20 dB.The proposed algorithm also exhibits strong robustness in various environments.