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This paper presents the current state-of-the-art of massive antenna array architectures with significant front-end hardware savings, as an enabler for future small and powerful cell nodes that will be able to carry massive MIMO technology.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-07-30 Vlasis I. Barousis , Mohammad A. Sedaghat , Ralf R. Müller , Constantinos B. Papadias

This paper analyzes the spectral efficiency of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems in both centralized and distributed configurations, referred to as C-MIMO and D-MIMO, respectively. By accounting for real environmental…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Gervais N. Kamga , Minghua Xia , Sonia Aïssa

High power consumption and hardware cost are two barriers for practical massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems. A promising solution is to employ low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). In this paper, we consider…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-23 Samira Rahimian , Yindi Jing , Masoud Ardakani

In what ways could cellular massive MIMO be improved? This technology has already been shown to bring huge performance gains. However, coverage holes and difficulties to transmit multiple streams to multi-antenna users because of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Sara Willhammar , Hiroki Iimori , Joao Vieira , Lars Sundström , Fredrik Tufvesson , Erik G. Larsson

Increasing the number of transmit and receive elements in multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna arrays imposes a substantial increase in hardware and computational costs. We mitigate this problem by employing a reconfigurable MIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Hamed Nosrati , Elias Aboutanios , David Smith

Cell-free massive MIMO provides ubiquitous connectivity for multiple users, and implementation using radio stripes is very efficient. This paper proposes a parallel scheme for radio stripes to allow access point to do signal processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yihua Ma , Zhifeng Yuan , Guanghui Yu , Yijian Chen

Given the high throughput requirement for 5G, merging millimeter wave technologies and multi-user MIMO seems a very promising strategy. As hardware limitations impede to realize a full digital architecture, hybrid MIMO architectures, using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Steve Blandino , Claude Desset , Cheng-Ming Chen , Andre Bourdoux , Sofie Pollin

We consider a multipair decode-and-forward relay channel, where multiple sources transmit simultaneously their signals to multiple destinations with the help of a full-duplex relay station. We assume that the relay station is equipped with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-07 Hien Quoc Ngo , Himal A. Suraweera , Michail Matthaiou , Erik G. Larsson

In this paper, we propose to investigate a single RF chain multi-antenna full-duplex (FD) relay built with $b$-bit analog phase shifters and passive self-interference cancellation. Next, assuming only passive self-interference cancellation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Armin Bazrafkan , Marija Poposka , Zoran Hadzi-Velkov , Petar Popovski , Nikola Zlatanov

Massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) can support high spectral efficiency (SE) with simple linear transceivers, and is expected to provide high energy efficiency (EE). In this paper, we analyze the EE of downlink multi-cell massive MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Wenjia Liu , Shengqian Han , Chenyang Yang

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

This paper considers a deterministic physical model of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with uniform linear antenna arrays. It is known that the maximum spatial degrees of freedom is achieved by spacing antenna elements…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Keigo Takeuchi

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), with a large number of distributed access points (APs) that jointly serve the user equipments (UEs), is a promising network architecture for future wireless communications. To reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Jiayi Zhang , Yinghua Wei , Emil Björnson , Yu Han , Xu Li

In this paper, we explore reduced-connectivity radio frequency (RF) switching networks for reducing the analog hardware complexity and switching power losses in antenna selection (AS) systems. In particular, we analyze different hardware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez , Christos Masouros , Pawel Rulikowski

Since the introduction of massive MIMO (mMIMO), the design of a transceiver with feasible complexity has been a challenging problem. Initially, it was believed that the main issue in this respect is the overall RF-cost. However, as mMIMO is…

This paper considers a multi-way massive multiple-input multiple-output relaying system, where single-antenna users exchange their information-bearing signals with the help of one relay station equipped with unconventionally many antennas.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Chung Duc Ho , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou , Trung Q. Duong

Multi-user Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) offers big advantages over conventional point-to-point MIMO: it works with cheap single-antenna terminals, a rich scattering environment is not required, and resource allocation is simplified…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Erik G. Larsson , Ove Edfors , Fredrik Tufvesson , Thomas L. Marzetta

In this two-part paper, we consider the multiantenna multihop relay channels in which the source signal arrives at the destination through N independent relaying hops in series. The main concern of this work is to design relaying strategies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Sheng Yang , Jean-Claude Belfiore

Multi-antenna relaying has emerged as a promising technology to enhance the system performance in cellular networks. However, when precoding techniques are utilized to obtain multi-antenna gains, the system generally requires channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Wei Xu , Xiaodai Dong , Wu-Sheng Lu

We consider slow fading relay channels with a single multi-antenna source-destination terminal pair. The source signal arrives at the destination via N hops through N-1 layers of relays. We analyze the diversity of such channels with fixed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-08-03 Sheng Yang , Jean-Claude Belfiore