Compressive sampling optimization for user signal parameter estimation in massive MIMO systems

As the most promising technology in wireless communications, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) faces a significant challenge in practical implementation because of the high complexity and cost involved in deploying a separate front-end circuit for each antenna. In this paper, we apply the compressive sampling technique to reduce the number of required front-end circuits in the analog domain and the computational complexity in the digital domain. Unlike the commonly adopted random projections, we exploit the a priori probability distribution of the user positions to optimize the compressive sampling strategy, so as to maximize the mutual information between the compressed measurements and the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of user signals. With the optimized compressive sampling strategy, we further propose a compressive sampling Capon spatial spectrum estimator for DOA estimation. In addition, the user signal power is estimated by solving a compressed measurement covariance matrix fitting problem. Furthermore, the user signal waveforms are estimated from a robust adaptive beamformer through the reconstruction of an interference-plus-noise compressed covariance matrix. Simulation results clearly demonstrate the performance advantages of the proposed techniques for user signal parameter estimation as compared to existing techniques. (C) 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.