I. Introduction
Serving high-mobility users in a small-scale fading environment is a difficult problem in a cellular system. Small-scale fading punishes any transmission technique that uses channel state information (CSI) if there is a significant delay between measuring and using it. This delay, here referred to as the CSI delay, can arise for multiple reasons. One common source is the delay between transmitting uplink (UL) pilots in time-division duplex (TDD) systems and using the reciprocal CSI at a later downlink (DL) frame. The minimum CSI delay of this kind is typically between 1–5 ms in the 4G system, as exemplified in [1, Figure 23.15]. The calculation of channel estimates and precoders in massive multiple-input multiple-output (M-MIMO) systems and the use of a central computation of co-operative distributed transmission, such as joint transmission (JT) coordinated multipoint (COMP), are other possible sources of CSI delay which can be greater than the time difference between pilots.