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We consider the uplink of massive multicell multiple-input multiple-output systems, where the base stations (BSs), equipped with massive arrays, serve simultaneously several terminals in the same frequency band. We assume that the BS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou , Erik G. Larsson

Fully digital massive MIMO systems with large numbers (1000+) of antennas offer dramatically increased capacity gains from spatial multiplexing and beamforming. Designing digital receivers that can scale to these array dimensions presents…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Ali Rasteh , Amirreza Kiani , Marco Mezzavilla , Sundeep Rangan

Massive MIMO, a candidate for 5G technology, promises significant gains in wireless data rates and link reliability by using large numbers of antennas (more than 64) at the base transceiver station (BTS). Extra antennas help by focusing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Garimella Rama Murthy , Kunal Sankhe

The downlink of a single cell base station (BS) equipped with large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system is investigated in this paper. As the number of antennas at the base station becomes large, the power consumed at the RF…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Rami Hamdi , Wessam Ajib

The benefit of multi-antenna receivers is investigated in wireless ad hoc networks, and the main finding is that network throughput can be made to scale linearly with the number of receive antennas nR even if each transmitting node uses…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nihar Jindal , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Steven Weber

This paper demonstrates the feasibility of respiration pattern estimation utilizing a communication-centric cellfree massive MIMO OFDM Base Station (BS). The sensing target is typically positioned near the User Equipment (UE), which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Haoqiu Xiong , Robbert Beerten , Zhuangzhuang Cui , Yang Miao , Sofie Pollin

This paper considers an uplink cellular system, in which each base station (BS) is equipped with a large number of antennas to serve multiple single-antenna user equipments (UEs) simultaneously. Uplink training with pilot reusing is adopted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ning Liang , Wenyi zhang , Cong Shen

Minimum mean square error (MMSE) signal detection algorithm is near- optimal for uplink multi-user large-scale multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems, but involves matrix inversion with high complexity. In this letter, we firstly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Xinyu Gao , Linglong Dai , Yongkui Ma , Zhaocheng Wang

We consider a multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) time-division duplexing (TDD) system in which the base station (BS) is equipped with a large number of antennas for communicating with single-antenna mobile users. In such a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-05 Ko-Feng Chen , Yen-Cheng Liu , Yu T. Su

In this paper, we analyze both the rate of convergence and the performance of a matched-filter (MF) precoder in a massive multi-user (MU) multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system, with the aim of determining the impact of distributing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-04 Peter J. Smith , Callum T. Neil , Mansoor Shafi , Pawel A. Dmochowski

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a fundamental enabler to provide high data throughput in next generation cellular networks. By equipping the base stations (BSs) with tens or hundreds of antenna elements, narrow and high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Paolo Baracca , Andreas Weber , Thorsten Wild , Christophe Grangeat

Large-scale (or massive) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is expected to be one of the key technologies in next-generation multi-user cellular systems, based on the upcoming 3GPP LTE Release 12 standard, for example. In this work, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Michael Wu , Bei Yin , Guohui Wang , Chris Dick , Joseph R. Cavallaro , Christoph Studer

Large number of antennas and radio frequency (RF) chains at the base stations (BSs) lead to high energy consumption in massive MIMO systems. Thus, how to improve the energy efficiency (EE) with a computationally efficient approach is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Mangqing Guo , M. Cenk Gursoy

Massive MIMO, also known as very-large MIMO or large-scale antenna systems, is a new technique that potentially can offer large network capacities in multi-user scenarios. With a massive MIMO system, we consider the case where a base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xiang Gao , Ove Edfors , Fredrik Rusek , Fredrik Tufvesson

This paper examines the uplink transmission of a single-antenna handsheld user to a cluster of satellites, with a focus on utilizing the inter-satellite links to enable cooperative signal detection. Two cases are studied: one with full CSI…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Yasaman Omid , Zohre Mashayekh Bakhsh , Farbod Kayhan , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

In this paper, we propose low complexity algorithms based on Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technique for signal detection and channel estimation on the uplink in large scale multiuser multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-31 Tanumay Datta , N. Ashok Kumar , A. Chockalingam , B. Sundar Rajan

In massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, the large number of antennas would bring a great challenge for the acquisition of the accurate channel state information, especially in the frequency division duplex mode. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-04 Yindi Yang , Shun Zhang , Feifei Gao , Chao Xu , Jianpeng Ma , Octavia A. Dobre

In this thesis, we investigate the problem of efficient data detection in large MIMO and high order MU-MIMO systems. First, near-optimal low-complexity detection algorithms are proposed for regular MIMO systems. Then, a family of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Hadi Sarieddeen

We consider the uplink of a multiuser massive MIMO system wherein a base station (BS) having $M$ antennas communicates coherently with $K$ single antenna user terminals (UTs). We study the energy efficiency of this system while taking the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Sudarshan Mukherjee , Saif Khan Mohammed

Conventional spatial modulation (SM) is typically considered for transmission in the downlink of small-scale MIMO systems, where a single one of a set of antenna elements (AEs) is activated for implicitly conveying extra bits. By contrast,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Zhen Gao , Linglong Dai , Zhaocheng Wang , Sheng Chen , Lajos Hanzo