Abstract

This letter focuses on the problem of uplink channel estimation with the reduced fronthaul overhead in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems. First, we propose a sub-sampling scheme to reduce the dimension of fronthaul. Then, we exploit the inherent channel sparsity and model the underdetermined channel estimation problem as an off-grid sparse signal recovery problem. Finally, an enhanced sparse Bayesian learning (ESBL) channel estimation algorithm is proposed to refine the sampled grid points and recover the sparse channel iteratively. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieves a significant reduction on the fronthaul overhead and offers a better channel estimation performance.

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