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Antenna arrays will be an important ingredient in millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular systems. A natural application of antenna arrays is simultaneous transmission to multiple users. Unfortunately, the hardware constraints in mmWave systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Geert Leus , Robert W. Heath

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

Hybrid precoding is an indispensable technique to harness the full potential of a multi-user massive multiple-input, multiple-output (MU-MMIMO) system. In this paper, we propose a new hybrid precoding approach that combines digital and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Azadeh Pourkabirian , Kai Li , Photios A. Stavrou , Wei Ni

Cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) ensures ubiquitous communication at high spectral efficiency (SE) thanks to increased macro-diversity as compared cellular communications. However, system scalability and performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Giovanni Interdonato , Marcus Karlsson , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

The conventional digital beamforming technique needs one radio frequency (RF) chain per antenna element. High power consumption, significantly high cost of RF chain components per antenna and complex signal processing task at base band…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Om Nath Acharya , Ram Kaji Budhathoki , Santosh Shaha

In this paper, we propose network massive multiple- input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where three radio units (RUs) connected via one digital unit (DU) support multiple user equipments (UEs) at a cell-boundary through the same radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-20 Changwoo Lee , Chan-Byoung Chae , Taehyung Kim , Sooyong Choi , Juho Lee

Large-scale MIMO systems can yield a substantial improvement in spectral efficiency for future communication systems. Due to the finer spatial resolution achieved by a huge number of antennas at the base stations, these systems have shown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-15 Abla Kammoun , Axel Müller , Emil Björnson , Mérouane Debbah

In this paper, we consider the uplink channel estimation phase and downlink data transmission phase of cell-free millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with low-capacity fronthaul links and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-01 In-soo Kim , Mehdi Bennis , Junil Choi

Hybrid precoding is a cost-effective approach to support directional transmissions for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. While existing works on hybrid precoding mainly focus on single-user single-carrier transmission, in practice…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

In this paper, we develop a low-complexity channel estimation for hybrid millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, where the number of radio frequency (RF) chains is much less than the number of antennas equipped at each transceiver. The proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Lou Zhao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

Efficient uplink processing in distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (D-mMIMO) systems requires both effective local combining and scalable decoding to significantly mitigate inter-user interference. Recent zero-forcing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mohd Saif Ali Khan , Karthik RM , Samar Agnihotri

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

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems achieve high sum spectral efficiency by offering an order of magnitude increase in multiplexing gains. In time division duplexing systems, however, the reuse of uplink training pilots…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Geert Leus , Robert W. Heath

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

This paper studies energy-efficient hybrid beamforming architectures and its algorithm design in millimeter-wave communication systems, aiming to address the challenges faced by existing hybrid beamforming due to low hardware flexibility…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Hongpu Zhang , Yulu Guo , Liuxun Xue , Xingchen Liu , Shu Sun , Ruifeng Gao , Xianghao Yu , Meixia Tao

In this letter, we study the performance of a downlink multiuser massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with sub-connected structure over limited feedback channels. Tight rate approximations are theoretically analyzed for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Yaqiong Zhao , Wei Xu , Jindan Xu , Shi Jin , Kezhi Wang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Hybrid precoders and combiners are designed for cooperative cell-free multi-user millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) cellular networks for low complexity interference mitigation. Initially, we derive an optimal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Meesam Jafri , Suraj Srivastava , Naveen K. D. Venkategowda , Aditya K. Jagannatham , Lajos Hanzo

This paper proposes the joint design of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) and zero-forcing (ZF) precoding for the downlink (DL) multiuser multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) setup in millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands, where ZF is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Ainna Yue Moreno-Locubiche , Josep Vidal , Antonio Pascual-Iserte , Olga Muñoz

In multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems, the non-linear behavior of the power amplifiers (PAs) may cause degradation of the linear precoding schemes dealing with interference between user equipments (UEs), e.g., the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Juan Vidal Alegría , Ashkan Sheikhi , Ove Edfors

MIMO systems are considered as most promising for wireless communications. However, with an increasing number of radio front ends the corresponding energy consumption and costs become an issue, which can be relieved by the utilization of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Erico S. P. Lopes , Lukas T. N. Landau