Channel Estimation for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Multi-User mmWave MIMO Systems

Channel acquisition is one of the main challenges for the deployment of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided communication systems. This is because an RIS has a large number of reflective elements, which are passive devices with no active transmitting/receiving abilities. In this paper, we...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on wireless communications 2023-10, Vol.22 (10), p.1-1
Main Authors: Chen, Jie, Liang, Ying-Chang, Cheng, Hei Victor, Yu, Wei
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Channel estimation
Channels
Communications systems
compressive sensing
Millimeter wave communication
Millimeter waves
MIMO communication
multi-user joint channel estimation
Reconfigurable intelligent surface
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
Recovery
Sparse matrices
Sparsity
Symbols
Training
Wireless communication
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Summary:Channel acquisition is one of the main challenges for the deployment of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided communication systems. This is because an RIS has a large number of reflective elements, which are passive devices with no active transmitting/receiving abilities. In this paper, we study the channel estimation problem for the RIS aided multi-user millimeter-wave (mmWave) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system. Specifically, we propose a novel channel estimation protocol for the above system to estimate the cascaded channels, which are the products of the channels from the base station (BS) to the RIS and from the RIS to the users. Further, since the cascaded channels are typically sparse, this allows us to formulate the channel estimation problem as a sparse recovery problem using compressive sensing (CS) techniques, thereby allowing the channels to be estimated with less training overhead. Moreover, the sparse channel matrices of the cascaded channels of all users have a common block sparsity structure due to the common channel between the BS and the RIS. To take advantage of the common sparsity pattern, we propose a two-step multi-user joint channel estimation procedure. In the first step, we make use of the common column-block sparsity and project the received signals onto the common column subspace. In the second step, we make use of the row-block sparsity of the projected signals and propose a multi-user joint sparse matrix recovery algorithm that takes into account the common channel between the BS and the RIS.
ISSN:1536-1276
1558-2248
DOI:10.1109/TWC.2023.3246264