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Beamforming has significance for enhancing spectral efficiency and mitigating interference in multi-antenna wireless systems, facilitating spatial multiplexing and diversity in dense and high mobility scenarios. Traditional beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Cemil Vahapoglu , Timothy J. O'Shea , Wan Liu , Sennur Ulukus

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) provide a cost-effective and scalable solution for large-scale antenna communications.However, efficient channel state information acquisition and phase shift optimization remain critical challenges.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Qian Zhang , Ju Liu , Yao Ge , Yufei Zhao , Wali Ullah Khan , Zheng Dong , Yong Liang Guan , Chau Yuen

Cooperative beamforming (CB) has been proposed as a special case of coordinated multi-point techniques in wireless communications. In wireless sensor networks, CB can enable low power communication by allowing a collection of sensor nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-29 Spyridon Vassilaras , George C. Alexandropoulos , Antonis A. Kalis

Optimal BeamFormers (BFs) that maximize the Weighted Sum Rate (WSR) for a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) interference broadcast channel (IBC) remains an important research area. Under practical scenarios, the problem is compounded by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-27 Kalyana Gopala , Dirk Slock

The throughput of multicell systems is inherently limited by interference and the available communication resources. Coordinated resource allocation is the key to efficient performance, but the demand on backhaul signaling and computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-12 Emil Björnson , Niklas Jaldén , Mats Bengtsson , Björn Ottersten

In this paper, we consider a multi-cell network where every base station (BS) serves multiple users with an antenna array. Each user is associated with only one BS and has a single antenna. Assume that only long-term channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-14 Siduo Shen , Tat-Ming Lok

Cognitive beamforming (CB) is a multi-antenna technique for efficient spectrum sharing between primary users (PUs) and secondary users (SUs) in a cognitive radio network. Specifically, a multi-antenna SU transmitter applies CB to suppress…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-18 Kaibin Huang , Rui Zhang

In downlink multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, block diagonalization (BD) is a practical linear precoding scheme which achieves the same degrees of freedom (DoF) as the optimal linear/nonlinear precoding schemes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-23 Yong Zeng , Erry Gunawan , Yong Liang Guan

We present a beamforming algorithm for multiuser wideband millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems where one access point uses hybrid analog/digital beamforming while multiple user stations have phased-arrays with a single RF chain.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-13 Carlos A. Viteri-Mera , Fernando L. Teixeira

This paper studies secure layered video transmission in a multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) beamforming downlink communication system. The power allocation algorithm design is formulated as a non-convex optimization problem for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober , Hussein Alnuweiri

This paper investigates reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted secure multiuser communication systems subject to hardware impairments (HIs). We jointly optimize the beamforming vectors at the base station (BS) and the phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Zhangjie Peng , Ruisong Weng , Cunhua Pan , Gui Zhou , Marco Di Renzo , A. Lee Swindlehurst

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

In traditional cache-enabled small-cell networks (SCNs), a user can suffer strong interference due to contentcentric base station association. This may degenerate the advantage of collaborative content caching among multiple small base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Xianzhe Xu , Meixia Tao

This paper characterizes the performance of coordinated beamforming with dynamic clustering. A downlink model based on stochastic geometry is put forth to analyze the performance of such base station (BS) coordination strategy. Analytical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Namyoon Lee , David Morales-Jimenez , Angel Lozano , Robert W. Heath

The fluid antenna system (FAS) is a disruptive tech-nology for future wireless communication networks. This paper considers the joint optimization of beamforming matrices and antenna positions for weighted sum rate (WSR) maximization in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Tianyi Liao , Wei Guo , Hengtao He , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

In this paper, we consider uplink channel estimation for massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems with partially connected hybrid beamforming (PC-HBF) structures. Existing beam design and channel estimation schemes are usually based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Yufan Zhou , Yongbo Xiao , An Liu

We consider a downlink multiuser massive MIMO system comprising multiple heterogeneous base stations with hybrid precoding architectures. To enhance the energy efficiency of the network, we propose a novel coordinated hybrid precoding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-12 Ganapati Hegde , Christos Masouros , Marius Pesavento

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

This paper introduces novel transmit beamforming approaches for the cognitive radio (CR) Z-channel. The proposed transmission schemes exploit non-causal information about the interference at the SBS to re-design the CR beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Ka Lung Law , Christos Masouros , Marius Pesavento

This paper proposes block-level precoder (BLP) designs for a multi-input single-output (MISO) system that performs joint sensing and communication across multiple cells and users. The Cramer-Rao-Bound for estimating a target's azimuth angle…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Nithin Babu , Christos Masouros