Information aging in massive MIMO systems affected by phase noise

Abstract

In massive MIMO systems, phase noise can spoil the performance of the usual receiver techniques. The problem arises because of the aging of phase-noise information based on pilots. In this paper, in a realistic 5G uplink scenario, we quantify the impact of information aging and we propose an iterative receiver based on expectation-maximization (EM). Simulation results show that the iterative receiver is robust to information aging related to phase noise.