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Abstract— In OFDM systems, it is necessary to estimate the channel to overcome the distortion caused by channel fading’s which can be induced by many phenomena such as: delay spread, mobility and Doppler shift. Most of the channel estimation techniques are proposed in frequency domain using the pilot symbols. One of them that is less complicated is least-squares (LS) method which is widely used in channel estimation but it is more sensitive to noise respected to the other reported techniques. In this paper, a new threshold based method using wavelet decomposition will be proposed which is based on an initial LS estimation technique. The reported simulation results show that the proposed method has better performance compared to the other methods such as Lee Method that has been published recently.

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Downlink channel estimation of Massive MIMO is an important challenge is 5G wireless communication.  A classic method for this purpose is training-based method which leads to decreasing in transmitted information rate. To cope with this problem, recently, a blind channel estimation method has been presented in which by assuming that the value of large scale fading coefficient is known, the channel gain is estimated in multiuser Massive MIMO system. In this paper, we propose a new method that simultaneously estimates both channel gain and large scale fading coefficient by applying two different power control gain in the coherence interval. The proposed method is applicable for ZF and MR precoding. The proposed method has higher transmitted information rate (does not need to transmit the large scale fading coefficient) and lower MSE in high SNR values with respect to reference method.