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This paper considers downlink multi-group multicasting via beamforming facilitated by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). We develop a fast and scalable algorithm for the joint base station (BS) and RIS beamforming optimization to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Mohammad Ebrahimi , Min Dong , Mitra Hekmat

In an extra-large scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) system, the antenna arrays have a large physical size that goes beyond the dimensions in traditional MIMO systems. Because of this large dimensionality, the optimization of an XL-MIMO system leads to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-04 Abolfazl Amiri , Carles Navarro Manch'on , Elisabeth de Carvalho

Massive MIMO is widely considered as a key enabler of the next generation 5G networks. With a large number of antennas at the Base Station, both spectral and energy efficiencies can be enhanced. Unfortunately, the downlink channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Ali Maatouk , Salah Eddine Hajri , Mohamad Assaad , Hikmet Sari

Joint user selection (US) and vector precoding (US-VP) is proposed for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) downlink. The main difference between joint US-VP and conventional US is that US depends on data symbols for joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-18 Keigo Takeuchi , Ralf R. Mueller , Tsutomu Kawabata

Consider the problem of a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Multiple-Access Channel (MAC) at the limit of large number of users. Clearly, in practical scenarios, only a small subset of the users can be scheduled to utilize the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Joseph Kampeas , Asaf Cohen , Omer Gurewitz

The pinching-antenna system (PASS) reconstructs wireless channels through pinching beamforming, i.e., optimizing the activated locations of pinching antennas (PAs) along the waveguide. The aim of this article is to investigate the joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Mingjun Sun , Chongjun Ouyang , Shaochuan Wu , Yuanwei Liu

This paper considers a full-duplex (FD) multiuser multiple-input single-output system where a base station simultaneously serves both uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) users on the same time-frequency resource. The crucial barriers in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-18 Hieu V. Nguyen , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Octavia A. Dobre , Yongpeng Wu , Oh-Soon Shin

Modular Arrays (MAs) are a promising architecture to enable multi-user communications in next-generation multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems based on extra-large (XL) or gigantic MIMO (gMIMO) deployments, trading off improved…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-08 José P. González-Coma , Santiago Fernández , F. Javier López-Martínez

This paper presents a Failure-Aware Access Point Selection (FAAS) method aimed at improving hardware resilience in cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) networks. FAAS selects APs for each user by jointly considering channel strength and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Mostafa Rahmani Ghourtani , Junbo Zhao , Yi Chu , Hamed Ahmadi , David Grace , Alister G. Burr

In this paper, a novel joint design of beamforming and power allocation is proposed for a multi-cell multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network. In this network, base stations (BSs) adopt…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Xiaofang Sun , Nan Yang , Shihao Yan , Zhiguo Ding , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chao Shen , Zhangdui Zhong

A multiantenna multiuser broadcast channel with transmitter beamforming and user selection is considered. Different from the conventional works, we consider imperfect channel state information (CSI) which is a practical scenario for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-24 Zijian Wang , Wen Chen

This paper proposes a secure users oriented multiple-input and single-output (MISO) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) downlink transmission scheme, where multiple legitimate users are categorized as quality of service (QoS)-required…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Hui-Ming Wang , Xu Zhang , Qian Yang , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

This paper proposes a hardware-software co-design approach to efficiently optimize beamforming and port selection in fluid antenna systems (FASs). To begin with, a fluid-antenna (FA)-enabled downlink multi-cell multiple-input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Sai Xu , Kai-Kit Wong , Yanan Du , Hanjiang Hong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Baiyang Liu , Kin-Fai Tong

This paper studies the ergodic rate performance of regularized zero-forcing (RZF) precoding in the downlink of a multi-user multiple-input single-output (MISO) system, where the channel between the base station (BS) and each user is modeled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Abla Kammoun , Merouane Debbah , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We consider a downlink (DL) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, where different users have different mobility profiles. To support this system, we categorize the users into two disjoint groups according to their mobility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Ruoxi Chong , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Simon L. Cotton , Michail Matthaiou

This work studies a variant of hybrid beamforming, namely, hybrid beamforming with selection (HBwS), as an attractive solution to reduce the hardware cost of multi-user Massive Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output systems, while retaining good…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Vishnu V. Ratnam , Andreas F. Molisch , Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu , Haralabos C. Papadopoulos

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) is a transformative technology with great potential in many applications in wireless communications and realizing the Internet of Everything at sixth generation (6G). In this study, we propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Xuejian Wei , Hui-Ming Wang

In this paper, we focus on the ergodic downlink sum-rate performance of a system consisting of a set of heterogeneous users. We study three user selection schemes to group near-orthogonal users for simultaneous transmission. The first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-03 Meng Wang , Tharaka Samarasinghe , Jamie S. Evans

Network assisted full-duplex (NAFD) is a spatial-division duplex technique for future wireless networks with cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF massive MIMO) network, where a large number of remote antenna units (RAUs),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Dongming Wang , Menghan Wang , Pengcheng Zhu , Jiamin Li , Jiangzhou Wang , Xiaohu You

In this paper, randomly-directional beamforming (RDB) is considered for millimeter-wave (mmwave) multi-user (MU) multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink systems. By using asymptotic techniques, the performance of RDB and the MU gain in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-10 Gilwon Lee , Youngchul Sung , Junyeong Seo