Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Marcos Yuichi Takeda, Aldebaro Klautau∗ Amine Mezghani and Robert W. Heath Jr.†
Deep learning can be used to solve problems in communi- Channel estimation for low-resolution mmWave MIMO
cations systems design whenever a standard approach is dif- has been tackled with techniques that do not use DL, such as
ficult [1–3]. In this paper, we apply deep learning to chan- in [13, 14], which adopt orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP)
nel estimation of MIMO systems with 1-bit analog-to-digital and variational Bayesian line spectral estimation (VALSE)
converters (ADCs). Due to the number of antennas in massive to leverage sparsity, respectively. Some recent papers em-
MIMO, the use of low power ADCs is a sensible alternative phasize advantages of DL for channel estimation (not neces-
to reduce the power consumption. This comes at the cost of a sarily with low-resolution ADCs) [15–18]. DL is used for
reduced resolution, which imposes challenges to receiver al- channel estimation in [16], which proposes a pre-processing
gorithms due to the non-linearity of the quantization operation (“tentative estimation”) to alleviate the task of the subsequent
and the massive number of antennas. convolutional deep neural network (DNN). The authors in
∗ Supported
[16] use DL to explore the time and frequency correlations
in part by, respectively, CAPES and CNPq, Brazil.
† This in mmWave wideband channels. In [18], the DNN is used to
material is based upon work supported in part by the National Sci-
ence Foundation under Grant No. ECCS-1711702 and Grant No. CNS- denoise the data, which is then processed by a conventional
1731658. estimator. This requires adjusting the DNN weights for each
,(((
coherence block, but avoids the conventional offline training At the receiver, Ỹpilot and Ỹdata are observed at each block
stage. Another online channel estimation method is proposed interval, while Xpilot is known a priori.
in [19], which avoids the cost of offline DNN training by us- In this paper we model a non-ideal 1-bit quantizer as a
ing the extreme learning machine (ELM) architecture. Differ- hysteresis based on two thresholds tdown and tup , both dis-
ent from these papers, we investigate channel estimation with tributed according to a zero-mean Gaussian N (0, σ 2 ) with
DL applied to systems with 1-bit ADCs and contrast it with variance σ 2 . We enforce that tdown ≤ tup and, if we draw
GAMP. values for which this is not true, these values are swapped.
Fig. 2 illustrates the hysteresis model used. Imperfections
2. SYSTEM MODEL are inevitable on ADCs implementations [22], and, for 1-bit
quantizers, a prominent one is the threshold hysteresis.
The system is modeled as depicted in Fig. 1. The num-
ber of transmit and receive antennas are Nt and Nr , respec- 1-bit ADC hysteresis model
Quantizer Output
stant over a period of T symbols. Assuming ideal synchro-
nism, one can write
0
Y = HX + W, (1)
where XNt ×T contains the transmit symbols, YNr ×T has the
-1
received symbols and WNr ×T is element-wise additive white
Gaussian noise. The received samples are further quantized
t t
down up
upon reception, as Quantizer Input
Ỹ = Q(Y) (2)
where Q(x) is a function representing the quantization oper- Fig. 2. Non-ideal ADC hysteresis.
ation on each real and imaginary components. For an ideal
1-bit quantizer, the operation corresponds to Q(x) = sgn(x),
where sgn(·) is the signum function. 3. CHANNEL ESTIMATION
ferent episodes for training and test, avoiding that the mobile
objects in the 3D scenarios are located in similar positions. Fig. 6. Comparing EM-BG-GAMP with dense network for
ray-tracing channels.
0
Residual σ = 0.5
Residual σ = 0.25 hand, EM-BG-GAMP had poor performance for the used ray-
Residual σ = 0.1
-5
Residual σ = 0 tracing channels, even with the ideal 1-bit ADC case. This
Convolut. σ = 0.5
Convolut. σ = 0.25 performance reduction is under further investigation.
Normalized MSE (dB)
[11] J. Mo, P. Schniter, and R. W. Heath, “Channel Esti- [23] Y. S. Jeon, S. N. Hong, and N. Lee, “Blind Detection
mation in Broadband Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems for MIMO Systems with Low-Resolution ADCs Using
With Few-Bit ADCs,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Supervised Learning,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Com-
Processing, vol. 66, no. 5, pp. 1141–1154, Mar. 2018. munications (ICC), May 2017, pp. 1–6.
[12] J. Mo, P. Schniter, N. G. Prelcic, and R. W. Heath, [24] François Chollet, Deep Learning with Python, Manning
“Channel Estimation in Millimeter Wave MIMO Sys- Publications, 2017.
tems with One-Bit Quantization,” in Proc. 48th Asilo- [25] Xiaofeng Li, Ahmed Alkhateeb, and Cihan Tepedelen-
mar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, lioğlu, “Generative Adversarial Estimation of Chan-
Nov. 2014, pp. 957–961. nel Covariance in Vehicular Millimeter Wave Systems,”
[13] Yucheng Wang, Wei Xu, Hua Zhang, and Xiaohu You, Aug. 2018.
“Wideband mmWave Channel Estimation for Hybrid
[26] Aldebaro Klautau, Pedro Batista, Nuria González-
Massive MIMO with Low-Precision ADCs,” arXiv e-
Prelcic, Yuyang Wang, and Robert W. Heath, “5G
prints, p. arXiv:1809.04454, Sep 2018.
MIMO Data for Machine Learning: Application to
[14] Jiang Zhu, Chao-kai Wen, Jun Tong, Chongbin Xu, and Beam-Selection using Deep Learning,” in Proc. Inf.
Shi Jin, “Gridless Variational Bayesian Channel Esti- Theory Appl. Workshop (ITA), 2018.
mation for Antenna Array Systems with Low Resolution
[27] Daniel Krajzewicz, Jakob Erdmann, Michael Behrisch,
ADCs,” arXiv e-prints, p. arXiv:1906.00576, Jun 2019.
and Laura Bieker, “Recent Development and Applica-
[15] Hengtao He, Chao-Kai Wen, Shi Jin, and Geof- tions of SUMO - Simulation of Urban MObility,” Inter-
frey Ye Li, “Deep Learning-based Channel Estima- national Journal On Advances in Systems and Measure-
tion for Beamspace mmWave Massive MIMO Systems,” ments, vol. 5, no. 3&4, pp. 128–138, Dec. 2012.
arXiv:1802.01290 [cs, math], Feb. 2018.
[28] L. Gammaitoni, “Stochastic resonance and the dithering
[16] P. Dong, H. Zhang, G. Y. Li, N. NaderiAlizadeh, and effect in threshold physical systems,” vol. 52, pp. 4691–
I. S. Gaspar, “Deep CNN for Wideband Mmwave Mas- 4698, Nov. 1995.
sive Mimo Channel Estimation Using Frequency Cor-
[29] A. Klautau, N. González-Prelcic, A. Mezghani, and
relation,” in ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International
R. W. Heath, “Detection and Channel Equalization with
Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Deep Learning for Low Resolution MIMO Systems,” in
(ICASSP), May 2019, pp. 4529–4533.
2018 52nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems,
[17] Peihao Dong, Hua Zhang, Geoffrey Ye Li, Navid Nade- and Computers, Oct 2018, pp. 1836–1840.
riAlizadeh, and Ivan Simoes Gaspar, “Deep CNN based
Channel Estimation for mmWave Massive MIMO Sys-
tems,” arXiv e-prints, p. arXiv:1904.06761, Apr 2019.
[18] Eren Balevi and Jeffrey G. Andrews, “Deep Learning-
Based Channel Estimation for High-Dimensional Sig-
nals,” arXiv e-prints, p. arXiv:1904.09346, Apr 2019.