Structured Phase Retrieval-aided Channel Estimation for Millimeter-Wave/Sub-Terahertz MIMO Systems

Abstract

We study the question of phase retrieval aided Millimeter wave (mmWave) channel estimation and propose a sparse phase retrieval-aided mmWave channel estimation technique which can estimate the sparse mmWave channel parameters from quadratic measurements. The proposed scheme has low-cost hardware implementation compared with traditional compressed sensing-based methods and robust to carrier frequency offset caused by high-frequency hardware imperfections. Based on the proposed sparse phase retrieval-aided model, we introduce a two-stage algorithm to estimate the mmWave channel parameters (up to a global phase) and then compute the exact solution via the anchor measurements. Simulation results are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.