Channel estimation for

mmWave massive MIMO

systems
 Introduction
The acquisition of accurate channel state
information (CSI) is essential in millimeterwave
(mmWave) massive MIMO systems.
How to reliably and efficiently acquire CSI is a
fundamental issue to fully exploit the potential
advantages of mmWave massive MIMO
systems.
channel estimation (CE) in mmWave massive
MIMO systems is more challenging
 Challenges
The number of antennas in mmWave massive
MIMO can be very large.
mmWave communications suffer from the
special hardware constraints.
The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) before
beamforming is low in mmWave
communications.
Channel feedback is required even for TDD
mode