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Channel Estimation under Hardware Impairments: Bayesian Methods versus Deep Learning (2208.04033v1)
Published 8 Aug 2022 in eess.SP, cs.IT, cs.LG, and math.IT
Abstract: This paper considers the impact of general hardware impairments in a multiple-antenna base station and user equipments on the uplink performance. First, the effective channels are analytically derived for distortion-aware receivers when using finite-sized signal constellations. Next, a deep feedforward neural network is designed and trained to estimate the effective channels. Its performance is compared with state-of-the-art distortion-aware and unaware Bayesian linear minimum mean-squared error (LMMSE) estimators. The proposed deep learning approach improves the estimation quality by exploiting impairment characteristics, while LMMSE methods treat distortion as noise.