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The use of large-scale antenna arrays has the potential to bring substantial improvements in energy efficiency and/or spectral efficiency to future wireless systems, due to the greatly improved spatial beamforming resolution. Recent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Emil Björnson , Jakob Hoydis , Marios Kountouris , Mérouane Debbah

The recent development of the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) paradigm, has been extensively based on the pursuit of favorable propagation: in the asymptotic limit, the channel vectors become nearly orthogonal and inter-user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Christos Masouros , Michail Matthaiou

One main goal of 5G-and-beyond systems is to simultaneously serve many users, each having a requested spectral efficiency (SE), in an energy-efficient way. The network capacity cannot always satisfy all the SE requirements, for example,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Hien Quoc Ngo

A game theoretic framework is presented to analyze the problem of finding the optimal number of data streams to transmit in a multi-user MIMO scenario, where both the transmitters and receivers are equipped with multiple antennas. Without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-07 Rahul Vaze

We consider the downlink of a single-cell multi-user MIMO system in which the base station makes use of $N$ antennas to communicate with $K$ single-antenna user equipments (UEs) randomly positioned in the coverage area. In particular, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Luca Sanguinetti , Emil Bjornson , Merouane Debbah , Aris Moustakas

Sub-terahertz (sub-THz) antenna array architectures significantly impact power usage and communications capacity in multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems. In this work, we compare the energy efficiency and spectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-18 Benjamin W. Domae , Christopher Chen , Danijela Cabric

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (Massive MIMO) has been realized as a promising technology for next generation wireless mobile communications, in which Spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE) are two critical issues.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-04 Di Zhang , Zhenyu Zhou , Keping Yu , Takuro Sato

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) has been the core of 5G due to its ability to improve spectral efficiency and spatial multiplexing significantly; however, cell-edge users still experience performance degradation due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

At millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies, the higher cost and power consumption of hardware components in multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) systems do not allow beamforming entirely at the baseband with a separate radio frequency (RF)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-27 Aryan Kaushik , John Thompson , Evangelos Vlachos

This paper takes a new look at Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) through the lens of the dynamic cooperation cluster framework from the Network MIMO literature. The purpose is to identify and address scalability issues…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

The use of low-resolution digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters (DACs and ADCs) significantly benefits energy efficiency (EE) at the cost of high quantization noise in implementing massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-16 Jinseok Choi , Jeonghun Park , Namyoon Lee

Existing works on Cell-Free Massive MIMO primarily focus on optimising system throughput and energy efficiency under high-traffic scenarios with only a limited focus on variable user demand as required by higher network layers.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Robbert Beerten , Vida Ranjbar , Hazem Sallouha , Sofie Pollin

We consider the cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink, where a very large number of distributed multiple-antenna access points (APs) serve many single-antenna users in the same time-frequency resource. A simple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Hien Quoc Ngo , Le-Nam Tran , Trung Q. Duong , Michail Matthaiou , Erik G. Larsson

Pixel antenna is a promising technology to enhance the wireless communication data rate by adaptively reconfiguring each antenna's radiation pattern via a so-called antenna coding technique which controls the states of switches connected to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shenrui Lin , Shuowen Zhang

We study the performance of uplink transmission in a large-scale (massive) MIMO system, where all the transmitters have single antennas and the base station has a large number of antennas. Specifically, we first derive the rates that are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Songtao Lu , Zhengdao Wang

This paper takes into consideration the non-ideal efficiency characteristics of realistic power amplifiers (PAs) along with the daily traffic profile in order to investigate the impact of PA dimensioning on the energy efficiency (EE) of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-11-10 M. M. Aftab Hossain , Riku Jäntti , Cicek Cavdar

This paper quantifies the information rate of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with finite rate channel state feedback and power on/off strategy. In power on/off strategy, a beamforming vector (beam) is either turned on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Wei Dai , Youjian Liu , Brian Rider , Vincent K. N. Lau

Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) has recently gained a lot of attention due to its high potential in sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems. The goal of this paper is to first present a unified modeling for massive MIMO,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

The point-to-point multiple-antenna channel is investigated in uncorrelated block fading environment with Rayleigh distribution. The maximum throughput and maximum expected-rate of this channel are derived under the assumption that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-17 Mahdi Zamani , Amir K. Khandani

Wireless power transfer (WPT) has garnered increasing attention due to its potential to eliminate device-side batteries. With the advent of (distributed) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), radio frequency (RF) WPT has become feasible…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Gilles Callebaut , Jarne Van Mulders , Bert Cox , Liesbet Van der Perre , Lieven De Strycker , François Rottenberg