Infinite Factorial Finite State Machine for Blind Multiuser Channel Estimation


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Article
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Authors
Valera, Isabel 
Perez-Cruz, Fernando  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8996-5076
Abstract

New communication standards need to deal with machine-to-machine communications, in which users may start or stop transmitting at any time in an asynchronous manner. Thus, the number of users is an unknown and time-varying parameter that needs to be accurately estimated in order to properly recover the symbols transmitted by all users in the system. In this paper, we address the problem of joint channel parameter and data estimation in a multiuser communication channel in which the number of transmitters is not known. For that purpose, we develop the infinite factorial finite state machine model, a Bayesian nonparametric model based on the Markov Indian buffet that allows for an unbounded number of transmitters with arbitrary channel length. We propose an inference algorithm that makes use of slice sampling and particle Gibbs with ancestor sampling. Our approach is fully blind as it does not require a prior channel estimation step, prior knowledge of the number of transmitters, or any signaling information. Our experimental results, loosely based on the LTE random access channel, show that the proposed approach can effectively recover the data-generating process for a wide range of scenarios, with varying number of transmitters, number of receivers, constellation order, channel length, and signal-to-noise ratio.

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Keywords
eess.SP, eess.SP, cs.IT, cs.LG, math.IT, stat.ML
Journal Title
June
Conference Name
Journal ISSN
2372-2045
2332-7731
Volume Title
4
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Sponsorship
European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) Marie Sk?odowska-Curie actions (706760)