Downlink compressive channel estimation with support diagnosis in FDD massive MIMO

Downlink channel state information (CSI) is critical in a frequency division duplexing (FDD) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. We exploit the reciprocity between uplink and downlink channels in angular domain and diagnose the supports of downlink channel from the estimated uplink channel. While the basis mismatch effects will damage the sparsity level and the path angle deviations between uplink and downlink transmission paths will induce differences in channel supports, a downlink support diagnosis algorithm based on the DBSCAN (density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise) which is widely used in machine learning is presented. With the diagnosed supports of downlink channel in angular domain, a weighted subspace pursuit (SP) channel estimation algorithm for FDD massive MIMO is proposed. The restricted isometry property (RIP)-based performance analysis for the weighted SP algorithm is given out. Both the analysis and the simulation results show that the proposed downlink channel estimation with diagnosed supports is superior to the standard iteratively reweighted least squares (IRLS) and SP without channel priori or with the assumption of the common supports for uplink and downlink channels in angular domain.