Sparse Channel Estimation for Millimeter Wave Massive MIMO Systems With Lens Antenna Array

Abstract

This paper addresses the channel estimation issue for millimeter wave (mmWave) massive MIMO systems with lens antenna array. Firstly, we formulate the channel estimation problem into the framework of sparse signal recovery. The formulation takes into account of the energy focusing property of the lens antenna array as well as the mutipath sparsity in mmWave MIMO channels. Then we develop an expectation maximization (EM) based algorithm to learn the parameters in the formulation, thereby fulfilling the channel estimation. Finally, we conduct simulations to verify the advantages of the proposed scheme over the state-of-the-art counterparts.