Pilot Reuse Factor with Large Scale Fading Precoding for Massive MIMO

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel pilot reuse factor combined with large scale fading precoding to mitigate pilot contamination in massive MIMO systems, improving sum rate performance.

Contribution

It introduces a pilot reuse scheme with large scale fading precoding to reduce intra-cell pilot contamination in massive MIMO networks.

Findings

Higher pilot reuse factors improve average achievable sum rates.

Large scale fading precoding effectively mitigates intra-pilot contamination.

Simulation results validate the proposed approach's effectiveness.

Abstract

The fundamental limitation of massive MIMO technology is pilot contamination effect. This effect occurs during uplink training when terminals use the same orthogonal signals. In this paper, a pilot reuse factor with large scale fading precoding is proposed to mitigate the pilot contamination effect. The pilot reuse factor is designed to assign unique orthogonal signals to the adjacent cells. These unique orthogonal signals are reused only within the cell and hence, intra-pilot contamination is the only concern. Large scale fading precoding is then used to mitigate the intra-pilot contamination effect. The average achievable sum rate is computed for different pilot reuse factors. Experimental results through MATLAB simulation show that a higher pilot reuse factor gives better average achievable sum rates.