“…In the UL, each user u transmits a symbol x n,k u , containing either data or a pilot, placed in an orthogonal subcarrier k at time instant n. The propagation channel between the user u and the BS at time instant n and subcarrier k is represented by h n,k u of size (R × 1) where h n,k u ∼ CN (0, I R ) is modeling a Rayleigh distributed channel, as defined in [25]. Following [19], [26], the channel coefficients suffer from time variability and an autoregressive model approximates the temporally correlated fading channel coefficients of VOLUME 10, 2022 subcarrier k at time instant n as…”