Abstract
Pilot contamination in the uplink (UL) can severely hurt the channel acquisition performance at the base station (BS) in a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. To mitigate the interference, it is critical to explore all the allowed avenues to provide more orthogonal resources for the users to transmit non-interfering UL pilots. In this paper, with a realistic massive MIMO orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) system model, allowing the channels to be both frequency-selective and time-selective, we propose to mitigate the UL pilot contamination through aligning the channel power in multiple domains, i.e., the time, angular, and Doppler domains. First, we show how to align the power-delay profiles of different users so that the pilots sent within one common reference OFDM symbol are orthogonal. Second, we demonstrate our proposed time-varying pilots can asymptotically mitigate the pilot contamination by aligning the Doppler power spectra (DPSs) judiciously even when the UL channels vary with time. Furthermore, in the case of massive MIMO, as the angles of arrival of the UL paths are acquired by the BS, we show the pilot contamination can be reduced or eliminated by jointly aligning the DPSs and the angular power spectra. Extensive computer simulations convince us the proposed Power Aligning principle can serve as the baseline design philosophy for the UL pilots in massive MIMO.
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