Abstract
Extremely large-scale massive MIMO (XL-MIMO) is a promising technique for future 6G communications. However, existing far-field or near-field channel model mismatches the hybrid-field channel feature in the practical XL-MIMO system. Thus, existing far-field and near-field channel estimation schemes cannot be directly used to accurately estimate the hybrid-field XL-MIMO channel. To solve this problem, we propose an efficient hybrid-field channel estimation scheme by accurately modeling the XL-MIMO channel. Specifically, we firstly reveal the hybrid-field channel feature of the XL-MIMO channel, where different scatters may be in far-field or near-field region. Then, we propose a hybrid-field channel model to capture this feature, which contains both the far-field and near-field path components. Finally, we propose a hybrid-field channel estimation scheme, where the far-field and near-field path components are respectively estimated. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme performs better than existing schemes.
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