Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2021, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (10): 2984-2991.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2021.10.34

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Channel estimation for reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted low-resolution quantized massive MIMO

Binrui LI, Zhongpei ZHANG*   

  1. National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Communications, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
  • Received:2021-02-04 Online:2021-10-01 Published:2021-11-04
  • Contact: Zhongpei ZHANG

Abstract:

The problem of channel estimation for reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems in view of low-resolution quantization is focused on. The main challenge for channel estimation of this system lies in that the reconfigurable intelligent surface(RIS) is composed of reconfigurable and nearly passive reflecting antennas which has no signal processing capability. Meanwhile, considering the situation that the observations is quantized by the low-resolution analog-to-digital converters, the channel estimation problem for such system becomes more challenging. By introducing the effective channel model derived from the cascaded channel model among the base station, the RIS and the user equipment, and proving that the effective channel can be considered as a structured sparse signal in the virtual angular domain. An expectation-maximization-based nearest neighbor learning generalized approximate message passing algorithm is proposed to recover the effective channel from the low-resolution quantized observations. Simulation results illustrate that the proposed algorithm can obtain better performance than conventional algorithms.

Key words: massive multiple input multiple output system, compressed sensing, reconfigurable intelligent surface, effective channel estimation

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