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I have the following set of $n$ equations:

$ \hspace{4cm}\boxed{y^{(1)}=h_1x_1^{(1)}+ h_2x_2^{(1)} +\ldots+ h_kx_k^{(1)} +w_1\\ y^{(2)}=h_1x_1^{(2)}+ h_2x_2^{(2)} +\ldots+ h_kx_k^{(2)}+w_2\\ \vdots \\ y^{(n)}=h_1x_1^{(n)}+ h_2x_2^{(n)} +\ldots+ h_kx_k^{(n)}+w_n}$

In matrix notation, $ \boxed{\vec{y}= \textbf{X}\vec{h}+\vec{w}},$ where,

$\vec{h}=[h_1,h_2,\ldots, h_k]$ denotes the coefficients where each entry is a complex number.

$\vec{y}=[y_1,y_2,\ldots, y_n]$ is the output vector.

The $ (i,j)^{th}$ entry of matrix $\textbf{X}$ is given by $\textbf{X}_{ij}=x_i^{(j)}$.

$w_j, \forall j \in \{1,2,\ldots,n\}$ is IID Gaussian noise distributed as $\mathcal{CN}(0,1)$.

Also $n>k$.

In my problem setup, $x_i^{(j)} \in \{0,1\}$ and their values are known. My aim is to estimate the coefficients $h_i'^s$.

Question 1: What constraints the 0-1 Binary matrix $\textbf{X}$ needs to satisfy so that I can get proper estimates of $h_i'^s, \forall i \in\{1,2,\ldots, k\}.$

Comment: I have not quantitatively elaborated what a "proper estimate" means. I am happy with any good standard estimates. I would like to know what conditions on $\textbf{X}$ could potentially help me to proceed with finding the standard estimates like MLE/MMSE or Least squares or something else.

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  • $\begingroup$ Well, it seems that $\boldsymbol{X}^{H}\boldsymbol{X}$ should be invertible. Then, you can use (complex) least squares to get an estimator of $\vec{h}$. See this question for details. $\endgroup$
    – user140541
    Dec 21, 2021 at 19:12
  • $\begingroup$ @d.k.o. Could you elaborate why $\textbf{X}^H\textbf{X}$ seems to be invertible? Is it right to say that the matrix $\textbf{X}$ needs to be a disjunct matrix for $\textbf{X}^H\textbf{X}$ to be invertible? (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunct_matrix) $\endgroup$
    – wanderer
    Dec 21, 2021 at 23:32

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