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Channel covariance information can be used for designing transmitter precoders, receiver combiners, channel estimators, etc. However, hybrid structures allow only a lower-dimensional signal to be observed, which adds difficulties for channel covariance matrix estimation. In this paper, we formulate the channel covariance estimation as a structured low-rank matrix sensing problem via Kronecker product expansion and use a low-complexity algorithm to solve this problem. Numerical results with uniform linear arrays (ULA) and uniform squared planar arrays (USPA) are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19153368","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,31]],"date-time":"2019-07-31T11:37:07Z","timestamp":1564573027000},"page":"3368","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Channel Covariance Matrix Estimation via Dimension Reduction for Hybrid MIMO MmWave Communication Systems"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4866-1679","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rui","family":"Hu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia"}]},{"given":"Jun","family":"Tong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia"}]},{"given":"Jiangtao","family":"Xi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia"}]},{"given":"Qinghua","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1541-9061","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yanguang","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2657","DOI":"10.1007\/s11276-015-0942-z","article-title":"A survey of millimeter wave communications (mmWave) for 5G: Opportunities and challenges","volume":"21","author":"Niu","year":"2015","journal-title":"Wirel. 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