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most citedNon-Bayesian Activity Detection, Large-Scale Fading Coefficient Estimation, and Unsourced Random Access with a Massive MIMO Receiver

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cs.IT2021★ 1 cited

Structured Channel Covariance Estimation from Limited Samples for Large Antenna Arrays

Tianyu Yang, Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai, Saeid Haghighatshoar +1

In massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, the knowledge of the users' channel covariance matrix is crucial for minimum mean square error (MMSE) channel estimation i…

cs.IT2020

Dual-Polarized FDD Massive MIMO: A Comprehensive Framework

Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai, Tianyu Yang, Saeid Haghighatshoar +2

We propose a comprehensive scheme for realizing a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with dual-polarized antennas in frequency division duplexing (FDD) mode. Empl…

cs.IT2020

Joint Approximate Covariance Diagonalization with Applications in MIMO Virtual Beam Design

Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai, Saeid Haghighatshoar, Giuseppe Caire

We study the problem of maximum-likelihood (ML) estimation of an approximate common eigenstructure, i.e. an approximate common eigenvectors set (CES), for an ensemble of covariance…

cs.IT2019

Uplink-Downlink Channel Covariance Transformations and Precoding Design for FDD Massive MIMO

Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai, Yi Song, Tianyu Yang +2

A large majority of cellular networks deployed today make use of Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) where, in contrast with Time Division Duplexing (TDD), the channel reciprocity d…

cs.IT2019★ 41 cited

Grant-Free Massive Random Access With a Massive MIMO Receiver

Alexander Fengler, Saeid Haghighatshoar, Peter Jung +1

We consider the problem of unsourced random access (U-RA), a grant-free uncoordinated form of random access, in a wireless channel with a massive MIMO base station equipped with a…

cs.IT2019

Structured Channel Covariance Estimation from Limited Samples in Massive MIMO

Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai, Tianyu Yang, Saeid Haghighatshoar +1

Obtaining channel covariance knowledge is of great importance in various Multiple-Input Multiple-Output MIMO communication applications, including channel estimation and covariance…

cs.IT2019★ 2 cited

Machine Learning for Geometrically-Consistent Angular Spread Function Estimation in Massive MIMO

Yi Song, Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai, Saeid Haghighatshoar +1

In the spatial channel models used in multi-antenna wireless communications, the propagation from a single-antenna transmitter (e.g., a user) to an M-antenna receiver (e.g., a Base…

cs.IT2019★ 229 cited

Non-Bayesian Activity Detection, Large-Scale Fading Coefficient Estimation, and Unsourced Random Access with a Massive MIMO Receiver

Alexander Fengler, Saeid Haghighatshoar, Peter Jung +1

In this paper, we study the problem of user activity detection and large-scale fading coefficient estimation in a random access wireless uplink with a massive MIMO base station wit…

cs.IT2019★ 74 cited

Massive MIMO Unsourced Random Access

Alexander Fengler, Giuseppe Caire, Peter Jung +1

We consider an extension of the massive unsourced random access originally proposed by Polyanskiy to the case where the receiver has a very large number of antennas (a massive MIMO…

cs.IT2018★ 4 cited

Multiple Measurement Vectors Problem: A Decoupling Property and its Applications

Saeid Haghighatshoar, Giuseppe Caire

We study a Compressed Sensing (CS) problem known as Multiple Measurement Vectors (MMV) problem, which arises in joint estimation of multiple signal realizations when the signal sam…

cs.IT2018★ 8 cited

Efficient Beam Alignment for mmWave Single-Carrier Systems with Hybrid MIMO Transceivers

Xiaoshen Song, Saeid Haghighatshoar, Giuseppe Caire

Communication at millimeter wave (mmWave) bands is expected to become a key ingredient of next generation (5G) wireless networks. Effective mmWave communications require fast and r…

cs.IT2018

Theoretical Bounds on MAP Estimation in Distributed Sensing Networks

Ali Bereyhi, Saeid Haghighatshoar, Ralf R. Müller

The typical approach for recovery of spatially correlated signals is regularized least squares with a coupled regularization term. In the Bayesian framework, this algorithm is seen…

cs.IT2018★ 12 cited

Hierarchical Sparse Channel Estimation for Massive MIMO

Gerhard Wunder, Ingo Roth, Axel Flinth +4

The problem of wideband massive MIMO channel estimation is considered. Targeting for low complexity algorithms as well as small training overhead, a compressive sensing (CS) approa…

cs.IT2018

FDD Massive MIMO via UL/DL Channel Covariance Extrapolation and Active Channel Sparsification

Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai, Saeid Haghighatshoar, Xinping Yi +1

We propose a novel method for massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (massive MIMO) in Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) systems. Due to the large frequency separation between Upl…

cs.IT2018★ 18 cited

A New Scaling Law for Activity Detection in Massive MIMO Systems

Saeid Haghighatshoar, Peter Jung, Giuseppe Caire

In this paper, we study the problem of \textit{activity detection} (AD) in a massive MIMO setup, where the Base Station (BS) has antennas. We consider a block fading chan…

cs.IT2018

Multi-Band Covariance Interpolation with Applications in Massive MIMO

Saeid Haghighatshoar, Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai, Giuseppe Caire

In this paper, we study the problem of multi-band (frequency-variant) covariance interpolation with a particular emphasis towards massive MIMO applications. In a massive MIMO syste…

cs.IT2017★ 5 cited

A Robust Time-Domain Beam Alignment Scheme for Multi-User Wideband mmWave Systems

Xiaoshen Song, Saeid Haghighatshoar, Giuseppe Caire

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication with large array gains is a key ingredient of next generation (5G) wireless networks. Effective communication in mmWaves usually depends on t…

cs.IT2017

Low-Complexity Statistically Robust Precoder/Detector Computation for Massive MIMO Systems

Mahdi Nouri Boroujerdi, Saeid Haghighatshoar, Giuseppe Caire

Massive MIMO is a variant of multiuser MIMO in which the number of antennas at the base station (BS) is very large and typically much larger than the number of served users (da…

cs.IT2017

FDD Massive MIMO: Efficient Downlink Probing and Uplink Feedback via Active Channel Sparsification

Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai, Saeid Haghighatshoar, Xinping Yi +1

In this paper, we propose a novel method for efficient implementation of a massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (massive MIMO) system with Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) oper…

cs.IT2017★ 5 cited

Efficient Downlink Channel Probing and Uplink Feedback in FDD Massive MIMO Systems

Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai, Saeid Haghighatshoar, Giuseppe Caire

Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (massive MIMO) is a variant of multi-user MIMO in which the number of antennas at each Base Station (BS) is very large and typically much lar…

cs.IT2017★ 4 cited

A Scalable and Statistically Robust Beam Alignment Technique for mm-Wave Systems

Xiaoshen Song, Saeid Haghighatshoar, Giuseppe Caire

Millimeter-Wave (mm-Wave) frequency bands provide an opportunity for much wider channel bandwidth compared with the traditional sub-6 GHz band. Communication at mm-Waves is, howeve…

cs.IT2017

Compressive Estimation of a Stochastic Process with Unknown Autocorrelation Function

Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai, Saeid Haghighatshoar, Giuseppe Caire +1

In this paper, we study the prediction of a circularly symmetric zero-mean stationary Gaussian process from a window of observations consisting of finitely many samples. This is a…

cs.IT2017

Massive MIMO Pilot Decontamination and Channel Interpolation via Wideband Sparse Channel Estimation

Saeid Haghighatshoar, Giuseppe Caire

We consider a massive MIMO system based on Time Division Duplexing (TDD) and channel reciprocity, where the base stations (BSs) learn the channel vectors of their users via the pil…

cs.IT2017★ 46 cited

Signal Recovery from Unlabeled Samples

Saeid Haghighatshoar, Giuseppe Caire

In this paper, we study the recovery of a signal from a set of noisy linear projections (measurements), when such projections are unlabeled, that is, the correspondence between the…