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Hybrid beamforming for frequency-selective channels is a challenging problem as the phase shifters provide the same phase shift to all of the subcarriers. The existing approaches solely rely on the channel's frequency response and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Sohail Payami , Mathini Sellathurai , Konstantinos Nikitopoulos

In this paper, we propose a feedback-efficient hybrid precoding framework for wideband millimeter-wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) systems. To mitigate the high cost of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Po-Heng Chou , Jia-Qing Lin , Wan-Jen Huang , Ronald Y. Chang

This paper proposes a hybrid beamforming framework for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) in near-space airship-borne communications. To achieve high energy efficiency (EE) in energy-constraint airships, a dynamic subarray…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ruiqi Wang , Zhen Gao , Keke Ying , Ziwei Wan , Symeon Chatzinotas , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Hybrid beamforming (HBF) and antenna selection are promising techniques for improving the energy efficiency~(EE) of massive multiple-input multiple-output~(mMIMO) systems. However, the transmitter architecture may contain several parameters…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-01 Hamed Hojatian , Zoubeir Mlika , Jérémy Nadal , Jean-François Frigon , François Leduc-Primeau

In millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems, existing hybrid beamforming solutions generally require a large number of high-resolution phase shifters (PSs) to realize analog beamformers, which still suffer from high hardware…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-19 Ming Li , Zihuan Wang , Hongyu Li , Qian Liu , Liang Zhou

The potential of using of millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency for future wireless cellular communication systems has motivated the study of large-scale antenna arrays for achieving highly directional beamforming. However, the conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Foad Sohrabi , Wei Yu

Massive MIMO has been regarded as one of the key technologies for 5G wireless networks, as it can significantly improve both the spectral efficiency and energy efficiency. The availability of high-dimensional channel side information (CSI)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Juei-Chin Shen , Jun Zhang , Kwang-Cheng Chen , Khaled B. Letaief

In this letter, we consider optimal hybrid beamforming design to minimize the transmission power under individual signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) constraints in a multiuser massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-27 Guangda Zang , Ying Cui , Hei Victor Cheng , Feng Yang , Lianghui Ding , Hui Liu

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

In millimeter-wave (mmWave) MIMO systems, while a hybrid digital/analog precoding structure offers the potential to increase the achievable rate, it also faces the challenge of the need of a low-complexity design. In specific, the hybrid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Zhenyu Xiao , Pengfei Xia , Xiang-Gen Xia

Hybrid beamforming is vital in modern wireless systems, especially for massive MIMO and millimeter-wave (mmWave) deployments, offering efficient directional transmission with reduced hardware complexity. However, effective beamforming in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Weicao Deng , Min Li , Ming-Min Zhao , Min-Jian Zhao , Osvaldo Simeone

A two-stage hybrid transceiver is designed by considering a partially connected architecture at the base station (BS) for a low-resolution multi-user (MU) THz massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system. Due to its high bandwidth…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Abhisha Garg , Akash Kumar , Suraj Srivastava , Aditya K. Jagannatham , Lajos Hanzo

In this paper, we propose a two-stage analog combining architecture for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications with hybrid analog/digital beamforming and low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). We first derive a two-stage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Jinseok Choi , Gilwon Lee , Brian L. Evans

Massive MIMO systems rely on accurate Channel State Information (CSI) feedback to enable high-gain beam-forming. However, the feedback overhead scales linearly with the number of antennas, presenting a major bottleneck. While recent deep…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Maryam Ansarifard , Mostafa Rahmani , Mohit K. Sharma , Kishor C. Joshi , George Exarchakos , Alister Burr

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

A novel dynamic hybrid beamforming architecture is proposed to achieve the spatial multiplexing-power consumption tradeoff for near-field multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks, where each radio frequency (RF) chain is connected to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zheng Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhaolin Wang , Jian Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek

In this paper, a new receiver structure that is intended to detect the signals from multiple adjacent satellites in the presence of other interfering satellites is proposed. We tackle the worst case interference conditions, i.e., it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-18 Zohair Abu-Shaban , Hani Mehrpouyan , Joel Grotz , Bjorn Ottersten

The uplink where both the transmitter and receiver can use a large antenna array is considered. This is proposed as a method of antenna offloading and connecting small cell access points (SCAP) in a Two-Tier cellular network. Due to having…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Namal Rajatheva , Elvino Sousa

In broadband millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) systems, it is desirable to design hybrid beamformers with common analog beamformer for the entire band while employing different baseband beamformers in different frequency sub-bands. Furthermore, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-01 Ahmet M. Elbir , Kumar Vijay Mishra

This paper proposes a novel approach for designing channel estimation, beamforming and scheduling jointly for wideband massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems. With the proposed approach, we first quantify the maximum number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Tadilo Endeshaw Bogale , Long Bao Le , Xianbin Wang