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Xuantao Lyu

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arXiv2025

Channel Estimation for Wideband XL-MIMO: A Constrained Deep Unrolling Approach

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) enables the formation of narrow beams, effectively mitigating path loss in high-frequency communications. This capability makes the integration of wideband high-frequency communications and XL-MIMO a key enabler for future 6G networks. Realizing the full potential of such wideband XL-MIMO systems depends critically on acquiring accurate channel state information. However, channel estimation is significantly challenging due to inherent wideband XL-MIMO channel characteristics, including near-field propagation, beam split, and spatial non-stationarity. To effectively capture these channel characteristics, we formulate channel estimation as a maximum a posteriori problem, which facilitates the use of prior channel knowledge. We then propose an unrolled proximal gradient descent algorithm with learnable step sizes, which employs a dedicated neural network for proximal mapping. This design empowers the proposed algorithm to implicitly learn prior channel knowledge directly from data, thereby eliminating the need for explicit regularization functions. To improve the convergence, we introduce a monotonic descent constraint on the layer-wise estimation error and provide theoretical analyses to characterize the algorithm's convergence behavior. Simulation results show that the proposed unrolling-based algorithm outperforms the traditional and deep learning-based methods.

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arXiv2024

Convolutional Dictionary Learning Based Hybrid-Field Channel Estimation for XL-RIS-Aided Massive MIMO Systems

Extremely large reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS) is emerging as a promising key technology for 6G systems. To exploit XL-RIS's full potential, accurate channel estimation is essential. This paper investigates channel estimation in XL-RIS-aided massive MIMO systems under hybrid-field scenarios where far-field and near-field channels coexist. We formulate this problem using dictionary learning, which allows for joint optimization of the dictionary and estimated channel. To handle the high-dimensional nature of XL-RIS channels, we specifically adopt a convolutional dictionary learning (CDL) formulation. The CDL formulation is cast as a bilevel optimization problem, which we solve using a gradient-based approach. To address the challenge of computing the gradient of the upper-level objective, we introduce an unrolled optimization method based on proximal gradient descent (PGD) and its special case, the iterative soft-thresholding algorithm (ISTA). We propose two neural network architectures, Convolutional ISTA-Net and its enhanced version Convolutional ISTA-Net+, for end-to-end optimization of the CDL. To overcome the limitations of linear convolutional filters in capturing complex hybrid-field channel structures, we propose the CNN-CDL approach, which enhances PGD by replacing linear convolution filters with CNN blocks in its gradient descent step, employing a learnable proximal mapping module in its proximal mapping step, and incorporating cross-layer feature integration. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods for channel estimation in hybrid-field XL-RIS systems.

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arXiv2023

Trainable Proximal Gradient Descent Based Channel Estimation for mmWave Massive MIMO Systems

In this letter, we address the problem of millimeter-Wave channel estimation in massive MIMO communication systems. Leveraging the sparsity of the mmWave channel in the beamspace, we formulate the estimation problem as a sparse signal recovery problem. To this end, we propose a deep learning based trainable proximal gradient descent network (TPGD-Net). The TPGD-Net unfolds the iterative proximal gradient descent (PGD) algorithm into a layer-wise network, with the gradient descent step size set as a trainable parameter. Additionally, we replace the proximal operator in the PGD algorithm with a neural network that exploits data-driven prior channel information to perform the proximal operation implicitly. To further enhance the transfer of feature information across layers, we introduce the cross-layer feature attention fusion module into the TPGD-Net. Our simulation results on the Saleh-Valenzuela channel model and the DeepMIMO dataset demonstrate the superior performance of TPGD-Net compared to state-of-the-art mmWave channel estimators.

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