  Massive MIMO is, in general, severely affected by pilot contamination. As
opposed to traditional detectors, we propose a group-blind detector that takes
into account the presence of pilot contamination. While sticking to the
traditional structure of the training phase, where orthogonal pilot sequences
are reused, we use the excess antennas at each base station to partially remove
interference during the uplink data transmission phase. We analytically derive
the asymptotic SINR achievable with group-blind detection, and confirm our
findings by simulations. We show, in particular, that in an
interference-limited scenario with one dominant interfering cell, the SINR can
be doubled compared to non-group-blind detection.
