One-Bit Massive MIMO: Channel Estimation and High-Order Modulations
Paper in proceeding, 2015

We investigate the information-theoretic throughout achievable on a fading communication link when the receiver is equipped with one-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). The analysis is conducted for the setting where neither the transmitter nor the receiver have a priori information on the realization of the fading channels. This means that channel-state information needs to be acquired at the receiver on the basis of the one-bit quantized channel outputs. We show that least-squares (LS) channel estimation combined with joint pilot and data processing is capacity achieving in the single-user, single-receive-antenna case. We also investigate the achievable uplink throughput in a massive multiple-input multiple-output system where each element of the antenna array at the receiver base-station feeds a one-bit ADC. We show that LS channel estimation and maximum-ratio combining are sufficient to support both multiuser operation and the use of high-order constellations. This holds in spite of the severe nonlinearity introduced by the one-bit ADCs.

Author

Sven Jacobsson

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Giuseppe Durisi

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Mikael Coldrey

Ericsson

Ulf Gustavsson

Ericsson

Christoph Studer

Cornell University

2015 IEEE International Conference on Communication Workshop, ICCW 2015

1304-1309 7247358
978-1-4673-6305-1 (ISBN)

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories

Communication Systems

DOI

10.1109/ICCW.2015.7247358

ISBN

978-1-4673-6305-1

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