Sparse Channel Estimation in mmWave

MIMO systems
(insert paper, authors)

Harish Umasankar
Objectives

Need for mmWave

mmWave and its Advantages and
Challenges
(FILL)
Need for mmWave

Growing number of devices

Growing Traffic
Need for High Data Transmission Rates
Introduction to mmWave
Frequency ranging from 30 GHz to 300
GHz
 Large bandwidth High data rates
 Small Wavelength MIMO with large
number of antennas
Challenges In Using mmWave
High Propagation Loss
Sensitive to blockage by obstacles
Existing Solution: Beam Forming
Beamforming is a technique that is used to focus transmitted
signals to specific locations
Limitation of Beam Forming
Solution: Hybrid Architecture
 Additional challenges in mmWave MIMO:
Large number of antennas traditionally requires
large number of RF chains =>High power
consumption

 Solution: Hybrid RF baseband

transceiver with limited number of RF
chains
 System Model: Sparse Channel Estimation
 The pilot output
is given as

• RF Combiner,
Baseband Combiner
• RF Precoder,
Baseband Precoder
• Pilot matrix
• Noise matrix
(channel derivation -> leads to saying sparse channel)
Problem Statement: Sparse Channel Estimation
 High signal blockage at mmWave
frequency
 Leads to few multipath components
 Sparse nature of mmWave channel.
 Only few non-zero entries in high
dimensional channel vector.
 mmWave MIMO Beamspace Channel
 The virtual channel representation
is given as

 : Receive array response dictionary matrix

 : Transmit array response dictionary matrix
 : Sparse beamspace channel matrix

(1)
 Performing the vec operation

Where , and
 Sparse Channel Estimation
 Let pilot matrix I
 After performing vec operation

• Sensing matrix
• : Sparse channel vector to be estimated
Sparse Channel Estimation
 Conventional Techniques:
 Least squares (LS) method
 Linear Minimum Mean Squared
Error (LMMSE) technique
 For Large data size
 LS/LMMSE Computationally
complex
 Does not exploit sparsity

 Sparse recovery technique-

Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP)
OMP Algorithm

𝐲 𝐐 𝐡𝒂
OMP Algorithm