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We present a novel non-linear precoding technique for the transmission of 16 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) symbols in a 1-bit massive multi-user (MU) multipleinput- single-output (MISO) downlink system. We deploy low resolution…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Donia Ben Amor , Hela Jedda , Josef A. Nossek

This paper studies a downlink multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) system, where the precoding matrix is computed at a baseband unit (BBU) and then transmitted to the remote antenna array over a limited-capacity digital…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Alva Kosasih , Emil Björnson , Joakim Jaldén

Multiple-antenna systems is a key technique to serve multiple users in future wireless systems. For low energy consumption and hardware complexity we first consider transmit symbols with constant magnitude and then 1-bit digital-to-analog…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Lukas T. N. Landau , Rodrigo C. de Lamare

Base stations in 5G and beyond use advanced antenna systems (AASs), where multiple passive antenna elements and radio units are integrated into a single box. A critical bottleneck of such a system is the digital fronthaul between the AAS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Emil Björnson , Joakim Jaldèn

The use of low-resolution digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters (DACs and ADCs) significantly benefits energy efficiency (EE) at the cost of high quantization noise in implementing massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-16 Jinseok Choi , Jeonghun Park , Namyoon Lee

Massive MIMO systems are moving toward increased numbers of radio frequency chains, higher carrier frequencies and larger bandwidths. As such, digital-to-analog converters (DACs) are becoming a bottleneck in terms of hardware complexity and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-16 Thomas Feys , Liesbet Van der Perre , François Rottenberg

One of the first widespread uses of multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) is in 5G networks, where each base station has an advanced antenna system (AAS) that is connected to the baseband unit (BBU) with a capacity-constrained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Emil Björnson , Joakim Jaldén

We propose a nonlinear phase-quantized constant-envelope precoding algorithm for the massive multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink. Specifically, we adapt the squared-infinity norm Douglas-Rachford splitting (SQUID)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Sven Jacobsson , Oscar Castañeda , Charles Jeon , Giuseppe Durisi , Christoph Studer

Massive multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) has been the mainstream technology in fifth-generation wireless systems. To reduce high hardware costs and power consumption in massive MU-MIMO, low-resolution digital-to-analog…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Hengtao He , Mengjiao Zhang , Shi Jin , Chao-Kai Wen , Geoffrey Ye Li

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

Fifth-generation (5G) cellular systems will build on massive multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology to attain high spectral efficiency. However, having hundreds of antennas and radio-frequency (RF) chains at the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-02 Oscar Castañeda , Sven Jacobsson , Giuseppe Durisi , Tom Goldstein , Christoph Studer

We consider channel estimation for an uplink massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where the base station (BS) uses an array with low-resolution (1-2 bit) analog-to-digital converters and a spatial Sigma-Delta…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-15 Shilpa Rao , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Hessam Pirzadeh , Josef A. Nossek , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In this work, we propose an iterative scheme for computing a linear precoder that takes into account the impact of hardware impairments in the multiuser multiple-input single-output downlink. We particularly focus on the case when the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-28 Sina Rezaei Aghdam , Sven Jacobsson , Thomas Eriksson

Enabling communications in the (sub-)THz band will call for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) arrays at either the transmit- or receive-side, or at both. To scale down the complexity and power consumption when operating across…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Italo Atzeni , Antti Tölli , Duy H. N. Nguyen , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Base station (BS) architectures for massive multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems are equipped with hundreds of antennas to serve tens of users on the same time-frequency channel. The immense number of BS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Oscar Castañeda , Sven Jacobsson , Giuseppe Durisi , Christoph Studer

To leverage high-frequency bands in 6G wireless systems and beyond, employing massive multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) arrays at the transmitter and/or receiver side is crucial. To mitigate the power consumption and hardware complexity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Amin Radbord , Italo Atzeni , Antti Tölli

Cell-free massive MIMO has matured into a key candidate technology for 6G and beyond, owing to its ability to provide nearly uniform service quality to many user equipments (UEs) over the same time-frequency resources. Unlike conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Salih Gümüşbuğa

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising technology for next generation wireless communication systems (5G). In this technology, Base Station (BS) is equipped with a large number of antennas. Employing high resolution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-03 Azad Azizzadeh , Reza Mohammadkhani , Seyed Vahab Al-Din Makki

The high hardware complexity of a massive MIMO base station, which requires hundreds of radio chains, makes it challenging to build commercially. One way to reduce the hardware complexity and power consumption of the receiver is to lower…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Christopher Mollén , Junil Choi , Erik G. Larsson , Robert W. Heath

We consider timing and frequency synchronization for the massive multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink where 1-bit digital-to-analog converters (DACs) are used at the base station (BS). We focus on the practically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Sven Jacobsson , Carl Lindquist , Giuseppe Durisi , Thomas Eriksson , Christoph Studer