Blind adaptive receiver for uplink multiuser massive MIMO systems

Abstract

Herein, we consider uplink multiuser massive multiple‐input multiple‐output systems when multiple users transmit information symbols to a base station (BS) by applying simple space‐time block coding (STBC). At the BS receiver, two detection filters for each user are used to detect the STBC information symbols. One of these filters is for odd‐indexed symbols and the other for even‐indexed symbols. Using constrained output variance metric minimization, we first derive a special relation between the closed‐form optimal solutions for the two detection filters. Then, using the derived special relation, we propose a new blind adaptive algorithm for implementing the minimum output variance‐based optimal filters. In the proposed adaptive algorithm, filter weight vectors are updated only in the region satisfying the special relation. Through a theoretical analysis of the convergence speed and a computer simulation, we demonstrate that the proposed scheme exhibits faster convergence speed and lower steady‐state bit error rate than the conventional scheme.