Tensor-based Estimation of mmWave MIMO Channels with Carrier Frequency Offset

Abstract

Millimeter wave multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) achieves the best performance when reliable channel state information is used to design the beams. Most channel estimation methods proposed in the literature, however, ignore practical hardware impairments such as carrier frequency offset (CFO) and may fail under such impairment. In this paper, we present a joint CFO and channel estimation method based on tensor modeling and compressed sensing. Simulation results indicate that the proposed method yields better channel recovery performance than the benchmark and that it is more robust to a small number of channel measurements.