Acquisition of Channel State Information for mmWave Massive MIMO: Traditional and Machine Learning-based Approaches
This is an incremental overview article for researchers in wireless communications, focusing on improving system performance through CSI acquisition techniques.
The paper reviews traditional and machine learning-based methods for acquiring channel state information in mmWave massive MIMO systems, comparing them in terms of spectral efficiency, computational complexity, and overhead.
The accuracy of channel state information (CSI) acquisition directly affects the performance of millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. In this article, we provide an overview on CSI acquisition, including beam training and channel estimation for mmWave massive multiple-input multiple-output systems. The beam training can avoid the estimation of a high-dimension channel matrix while the channel estimation can flexibly exploit advanced signal processing techniques. In addition to introducing the traditional and machine learning-based approaches in this article, we also compare different approaches in terms of spectral efficiency, computational complexity, and overhead.