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Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems represent a promising approach to increase the spectral efficiency of wireless communication systems. However, near-optimal beamforming solutions require a large amount of signaling exchange between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-08 Hamed Hojatian , Jeremy Nadal , Jean-Francois Frigon , Francois Leduc-Primeau

We present distributed methods for jointly optimizing Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) phase-shifts and beamformers in a cellular network. The proposed schemes require knowledge of only the intra-cell training sequences and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Reinhard Wiesmayr , Michael Honig , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

Intelligent wireless networks have long been expected to have self-configuration and self-optimization capabilities to adapt to various environments and demands. In this paper, we develop a novel distributed hierarchical deep reinforcement…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-06 Kaiwen Yu , Chonghao Zhao , Gang Wu , Geoffrey Ye Li

Block diagonalization (BD) is a practical linear precoding technique that eliminates the inter-user interference in downlink multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In this paper, we apply BD to the downlink transmission in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-23 Rui Zhang

This paper investigates a coordinated multi-cell integrated sensing, communication, and powering (ISCAP) system operating in the electromagnetic near field, where each base station (BS) employs an extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yuan Guo , Yilong Chen , Zixiang Ren , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jie Xu

Non-terrestrial base stations (NTBSs), including high-altitude platform stations (HAPSs) and hot-air balloons (HABs), are integral to next-generation wireless networks, offering coverage in remote areas and enhancing capacity in dense…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Hesam Khoshkbari , Georges Kaddoum , Bassant Selim , Omid Abbasi , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Small-cell densification is a strategy enabling the offloading of users from macro base stations (MBSs), in order to alleviate their load and increase the coverage, especially, for cell-edge users. In parallel, as the network increases in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Marco Di Renzo , John M. Senior , Symeon Chatzinotas

In this work, we present a solution for coordinated beamforming and power allocation when base stations employ a massive number of antennas equipped with low-resolution analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters. We address total…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Yunseong Cho , Jinseok Choi , Brian L. Evans

Cell-free integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems are facing the resource allocation challenges due to the deployment of access points (APs) and conflicting beamforming requirements between the communication and sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Jijin Guo , Lixin Li , Yufeng Zheng , Dongwei Zhao , Wensheng Lin , Zhu Han

In cellular networks, admission control and beamforming optimization are intertwined problems. While beamforming optimization aims at satisfying users' quality-of-service (QoS) requirements or improving the QoS levels, admission control…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-21 Hoi-To Wai , Wing-Kin Ma

A multi-antenna transmitter that conveys independent sets of common data to distinct groups of users is herein considered, a model known as physical layer multicasting to multiple co-channel groups. In the recently proposed context of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Dimitrios Christopoulos , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

A multicell-coordinated beamforming solution for massive multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems is presented when employing low-resolution data converters and per-antenna level constraints.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Yunseong Cho , Jinseok Choi , Brian L. Evans

In this paper, we investigate the network power minimization problem for the multicast cloud radio access network (Cloud-RAN) with imperfect channel state information (CSI). The key observation is that network power minimization can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-23 Yuanming Shi , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

We consider a backhaul-constrained coordinated cellular network. That is, a single-frequency network with $N+1$ multi-antenna base stations (BSs) that cooperate in order to decode the users' data, and that are linked by means of a common…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-02-07 Aitor del Coso , Sebastien Simoens

In this paper, the robust distributed relay beamforming problem is solved using the worst case approach, where the problem solution has been involved because of the effect of uncertainty of channel knowledge on the quality of service (QoS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Behrad Mahboobi , Mehrdad Ardebilipour , Ashkan Kalantari , Ehsan Soleimani-Nasab

This paper investigates the optimization of the long-standing probabilistically robust transmit beamforming problem with channel uncertainties in the multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink transmission. This problem poses…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Kai Liang , Gan Zheng , Zan Li , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae

We solve a sum rate maximization problem of full-duplex (FD) multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems. Since additional self-interference (SI) in the uplink channel and co-channel interference (CCI) in the downlink channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Jinwoo Kim , Wan Choi , Hyuncheol Park

We consider a single-cell massive MIMO full-duplex wireless communication system, where the base-station (BS) is equipped with a large number of antennas. We consider the setup where the single-antenna mobile users operate in half- duplex,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Wenzhuo Ouyang , Jingwen Bai , Ashutosh Sabharwal

Transmit beamforming is a versatile technique for signal transmission from an array of $N$ antennas to one or multiple users [1]. In wireless communications, the goal is to increase the signal power at the intended user and reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Emil Björnson , Mats Bengtsson , Björn Ottersten

Joint unicast and multicast transmissions are becoming increasingly important in practical wireless systems, such as Internet of Things networks. This paper investigates a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output system that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Mustafa S. Abbas , Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Hyundong Shin , Michail Matthaiou