Superimposed Coding Based CSI Feedback Using 1-Bit Compressed Sensing

In a frequency division duplex (FDD) massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system, the channel state information (CSI) feedback causes a significant bandwidth resource occupation. In order to save the uplink bandwidth resources, a 1-bit compressed sensing (CS)-based CSI feedback method assisted by superimposed coding (SC) is proposed. Using 1-bit CS and SC techniques, the compressed support-set information and downlink CSI (DL-CSI) are superimposed on the uplink user data sequence (UL-US) and fed back to base station (BS). Compared with the SC-based feedback, the analysis and simulation results show that the UL-US's bit error ratio (BER) and the DL-CSI's accuracy can be improved in the proposed method, without using the exclusive uplink bandwidth resources to feed DL-CSI back to BS.