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Orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been regarded as a potential dimension for optical communication and related fields. Despite several studies, the transmission of OAM beams through time-varying scattering media remains a challenge. In…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-08 Heshen Li , Jin Wei , Tianshun Zhang , Wen Chen

Wireless backhaul offers a more cost-effective, time-efficient, and reconfigurable solution than wired backhaul to connect the edge-computing cells to the core network. As the amount of transmitted data increases, the low-rank…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Yufei Zhao , Ziyang Wang , Yilong Lu , Yong Liang Guan

Free space optical (FSO) communication can exploit mode-division multiplexing using orthogonal spatial modes of Laguerre Gaussian beams, such as orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes, wherein OAM multiplexing offers potentially infinite…

In this paper, resource allocation for multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) downlink networks with large numbers of base station antennas is studied. Assuming perfect channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-16 Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

It is well known that orthogonal coding can be used to approach the Shannon capacity of the power-constrained AWGN channel without a bandwidth constraint. This correspondence describes a semi-orthogonal variation of pulse position…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Anant Sahai

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) at radio frequency (RF) provides a novel approach of multiplexing a set of orthogonal modes on the same frequency channel to achieve high spectral efficiencies (SEs). However, the existing research on OAM…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Wen-Xuan Long , Rui Chen , Marco Moretti , Jian Xiong , Jiandong Li

Coherent free-space optical (FSO) communication is recognized as a key enabler for ultra-high-capacity fronthaul and backhaul links in next-generation wireless networks. Spectrally efficient $M$-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (MQAM)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Himani Verma , Kamal Singh , Ranjan K. Mallik

Information transfer through electromagnetic waves is an important problem that touches a variety of technologically relevant applications, including computing and telecommunications. Prior attempts to establish limits on optical…

Historically, the design of antenna arrays has evolved separately from Shannon theory. Shannon theory adopts a probabilistic approach in the design of communication systems, while antenna design approaches have relied on deterministic…

This paper investigates an energy-efficient non-orthogonal transmission design problem for two downlink receivers that have strict reliability and finite blocklength (latency) constraints. The Shannon capacity formula widely used in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Yanqing Xu , Chao Shen , Tsung-Hui Chang , Shih-Chun Lin , Yajun Zhao , Gang Zhu

Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM)-based communication systems offer high-capacity multiplexing in line-of-sight (LOS) scenarios; yet, their performance is sensitive to nodal misalignment, which disrupts modal orthogonality, hindering the data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Poorya Mollahosseini , Yasaman Ghasempour

In this paper, firstly, the Shannon channel capacity formula is briefly stated, and the relationship between the formula and the signal uncertainty principle is analyzed in order to prepare for deriving the formula which is able to break…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Dequn Liang , Xinyu Dou

This paper studies the impact of probabilistic shaping on effective signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) and achievable information rates (AIRs) in a back-to-back configuration and in unrepeated nonlinear fiber transmissions. For back-to-back,…

In this paper, we investigate the joint resource allocation and antenna selection algorithm design for uplink orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) communication system. We propose a multi-objective optimization framework to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Ata Khalili , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing offers a promising approach to high-capacity optical communication by harnessing the orthogonality of vortex beams. However, its practical deployment is severely limited in real-world settings…

This paper derives the outage probability and transmission capacity of ad hoc wireless networks with nodes employing multiple antenna diversity techniques, for a general class of signal distributions. This analysis allows system performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Andrew M. Hunter , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Steven Weber

Radio orbital angular momentum (OAM) communications require accurate alignment between the transmit and receive beam directions. Accordingly, a key feature of OAM receivers is the ability to reliably estimate the angle of arrival (AoA) of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Wen-Xuan Long , Rui Chen , Marco Moretti , Jiandong Li

Previous work on cooperative communications has concentrated primarily on the diversity benefits of such techniques. This paper, instead, considers the multiplexing benefits of cooperative communications. First, a new interpretation on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-16 Yijia , Fan , Chao Wang , H. Vincent Poor , John S. Thompson

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) can enhance the spectral efficiency by multiplying a set of orthogonal modes on the same frequency channel. To maintain the orthogonal among different OAM modes, perfect alignments between transmitters and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Xiaoyan Ma , Yufei Zhao , Haixia Zhang , Yong Liang Guan , Chau Yuen

Analogous to time signals that can be composed of multiple frequency functions, we use uniquely structured orthogonal spatial modes to create different beam shapes. We tailor the spatial structure by judiciously choosing a weighted…