Underwater acoustic multipath sparse channel estimation via gridless relevance vector machine method

In the scenario of underwater acoustic sparse channel estimation with training sequences,grid points in the measuring matrix are caused by discretizing procedure.Estimated accuracy might not be guaranteed with the state-of-the-art methods when multipath delays don't exactly locate on the grid points.In this paper,we construct a gridless measuring matrix for sparse channel estimation which contains an off-grid adjusting factor.The Relevance Vector Machine(RVM) algorithm is employed to estimate this factor.The numerical experiments for two different underwater channels are performed to testify the newly proposed method.The results demonstrate that this method outperforms conventional ones in terms of estimating error and bit error rate,especially when the grid gets coarser.

Inter-Carrier Interference-Aware Sparse Time-Varying Underwater Acoustic Channel Estimation Based on Fast Reconstruction Algorithm

In this paper,a fast orthogonal matching pursuit(OMP)algorithm based on optimized iterative process is proposed for sparse time-varying underwater acoustic(UWA)channel estimation.The channel estimation consists of calculating amplitude,delay and Doppler scaling factor of each path using the received multi-path signal.This algorithm,called as OIP-FOMP,can reduce the computationally complexity of the traditional OMP algorithm and maintain accuracy in the presence of severe inter-carrier interference that exists in the time-varying UWA channels.In this algorithm,repeated inner product operations used in the OMP algorithm are removed by calculating the candidate path signature Hermitian inner product matrix in advance.Efficient QR decomposition is used to estimate the path amplitude,and the problem of reconstruction failure caused by inaccurate delay selection is avoided by optimizing the Hermitian inner product matrix.Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that the computational complexity of the OIP-FOMP algorithm is reduced by about 1/4 compared with the OMP algorithm,without any loss of accuracy.

Improved smoothed L0 reconstruction algorithm for ISI sparse channel estimation

In this paper, the problem of inter symbol interference （ISI） sparse channel estimation in wireless communication with the application of compressed sensing is investigated. However, smoothed L0 norm algorithm （SL0） has ＇notched effect＇ due to the negative iterative gradient direction. Moreover, the property of continuous function in SL0 is not steep enough, which results in inaccurate estimations and low convergence. Afterwards, we propose the Lagrange multipliers as well as Newton method to optimize SL0 algorithm in order to obtain a more rapid and efficient signal reconstruction algorithm, improved smoothed L0 （ISL0）. ISI channel estimation will have a direct effect on the performance of ISI equalizer at the receiver. So, we design a pre-filter model which with no considerable loss of optimality and do analyses of the equalization methods of the sparse multi-path channel. Real-time simulation results clearly show that the ISL0 algorithm can estimate the ISI sparse channel much better in both signal noise ratio （SNR） and compression levels. In the same channel conditions, ISL0 algorithm has been greatly improved when compared with the SL0 algorithm and other compressed-sensing algorithms.

Sparsity-Aware Channel Estimation for mmWave Massive MIMO: A Deep CNN-Based Approach

The deep convolutional neural network(CNN)is exploited in this work to conduct the challenging channel estimation for mmWave massive multiple input multiple output(MIMO)systems.The inherent sparse features of the mmWave massive MIMO channels can be extracted and the sparse channel supports can be learnt by the multi-layer CNN-based network through training.Then accurate channel inference can be efficiently implemented using the trained network.The estimation accuracy and spectrum efficiency can be further improved by fully utilizing the spatial correlation among the sparse channel supports of different antennas.It is verified by simulation results that the proposed deep CNN-based scheme significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art benchmarks in both accuracy and spectrum efficiency.

Compressed sensing based channel estimation for fast fading OFDM systems

A compressed sensing（CS） based channel estimation algorithm is proposed by using the delay-Doppler sparsity of the fast fading channel.A compressive basis expansion channel model with sparsity in both time and frequency domains is given.The pilots in accordance with a novel random pilot matrix in both time and frequency domains are sent to measure the delay-Doppler sparsity channel.The relatively nonzero channel coefficients are tracked by random pilots at a sampling rate significantly below the Nyquist rate.The sparsity channels are estimated from a very limited number of channel measurements by the basis pursuit algorithm.The proposed algorithm can effectively improve the channel estimation performance when the number of pilot symbols is reduced with improvement of throughput efficiency.