Research Article

An Improved Multicell MMSE Channel Estimation in a Massive MIMO System

Table 1

Simulation parameters.

Parameter Value

Cell radius 500 m
Pathloss exponent 3.8
Carrier frequency 2 GHz
Shadow fading standard deviation 8 dB
Number of subcarriers for pilots 12
Number of symbols for pilots 3
Pilot length 36
Number of cells 7
Number of users per cell 24
Number of strong interfering users in neighbor cells 12
Number of BS antennas 100
Frame length 10 ms