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Transmit beamforming for underwater acoustic communication is challenging because it requires perfect knowledge of the channel to the receiver in advance. In practice, channel estimates must be learned through feedback and are often noisy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Diego A. Cuji , Andrew C. Singer , Milica Stojanovic

This paper investigates the performance of optimal single stream beamforming schemes in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) dual-hop amplify-and-forward (AF) systems. Assuming channel state information is not available at the source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Caijun Zhong , Tharm Ratnarajah , Shi Jin , Kai Kit Wong

The concept of the frequency diverse reconfigurable intelligent surface (FD-RIS) technology has been introduced, which can enable simultaneous implementation of distance-angle beamforming in far-field communication scenarios. In order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Han Xiao , Xiaoyan Hu , Wenjie Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Kun Yang , Shi Jin

Hybrid beamforming for frequency-selective channels is a challenging problem as the phase shifters provide the same phase shift to all of the subcarriers. The existing approaches solely rely on the channel's frequency response and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Sohail Payami , Mathini Sellathurai , Konstantinos Nikitopoulos

In this paper, we introduce the novel use of linear spatial precoding based on fixed and known parameters of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels to improve the performance of space-time coded MIMO systems. We derive linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Tharaka A. Lamahewa , Rodney A. Kennedy , Thushara D. Abhayapala , Van K. Nguyen

The application of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) depends on the knowledge of channel state information (CSI), and has been hindered by the heavy overhead of channel training, estimation, and feedback in fast-changing channels. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Yashuai Cao , Tiejun Lv , Wei Ni

Signal identification represents the task of a receiver to identify the signal type and its parameters, with applications to both military and commercial communications. In this paper, we investigate the identification of spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Yahia A. Eldemerdash , Octavia A. Dobre

Federated learning (FL) with over-the-air computation can efficiently utilize the communication bandwidth but is susceptible to analog aggregation error. Excluding those devices with weak channel conditions can reduce the aggregation error,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Faeze Moradi Kalarde , Min Dong , Ben Liang , Yahia A. Eldemerdash Ahmed , Ho Ting Cheng

In this paper, we investigate the downlink secure beamforming (BF) design problem of cloud radio access networks (C-RANs) relying on multicast fronthaul, where millimeter-wave and microwave carriers are used for the access links and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Wanming Hao , Gangcan Sun , Jiankang Zhang , Pei Xiao , Lajos Hanzo

In massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, hybrid analog-digital beamforming is an essential technique for exploiting the potential array gain without using a dedicated radio frequency chain for each antenna. However, due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Kai Kang , Qiyu Hu , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu , Jakob Hoydis , Yonina C. Eldar

We study the problem of providing channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter in multi-user massive MIMO systems operating in frequency division duplexing (FDD). The wideband MIMO channel is a vector-valued random process correlated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai , Yi Song , Tianyu Yang , Giuseppe Caire

Millimeter wave (mmWave) systems will likely employ large antenna arrays at both the transmitters and receivers. A natural application of antenna arrays is simultaneous transmission to multiple users, which requires multi-user precoding at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Robert W. Heath , Geert Leus

Full Duplex (FD) radio has emerged as a promising solution to increase the data rates by up to a factor of two via simultaneous transmission and reception in the same frequency band. This paper studies a novel hybrid beamforming (HYBF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Chandan Kumar Sheemar , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Dirk Slock

The beamforming techniques have been recently studied as possible enablers for underlay spectrum sharing. The existing beamforming techniques have several common limitations: they are usually system model specific, cannot operate with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Daniel Denkovski , Valentin Rakovic , Vladimir Atanasovski , Liljana Gavrilovska , Petri Mähönen

We consider a massive MU-MIMO downlink time-division duplex system where a base station (BS) equipped with many antennas serves several single-antenna users in the same time-frequency resource. We assume that the BS uses linear precoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-08 Hien Quoc Ngo , Erik G. Larsson , Thomas L. Marzetta

Massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MaMIMO) multicasting has received significant attention over the last years. MaMIMO is a key enabler of 5G systems to achieve the extremely demanding data rates of upcoming services. Multicast in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-22 Alejandro de la Fuente , Giovanni Interdonato , Giuseppe Araniti

A near-field simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) network is investigated, where the hybrid beamforming architecture is employed at the base station (BS) for information transmission while charging energy harvesting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Zheng Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Jian Chen

In this paper, multi-stream transmission in interference networks aided by multiple amplify-and-forward (AF) relays in the presence of direct links is considered. The objective is to minimize the sum power of transmitters and relays by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-31 Cenk M. Yetis , Ronald Y. Chang

The joint design of analog beamforming and power allocation is investigated for a single radio-frequency chain multiuser time-division multiple access system under a max-min signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) criterion. A hardware-efficient…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Songnan Gu , Chongjun Ouyang , Hao Jiang , Xingqi Zhang

In a wireless system with a large number of distributed nodes, the quality of communication can be greatly improved by pooling the nodes to perform joint transmission/reception. In this paper, we consider the problem of optimally selecting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-08 Mingyi Hong , Zi Xu , Meisam Razaviyayn , Zhi-Quan Luo