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Beamforming-capable antenna arrays overcome the high free-space path loss at higher carrier frequencies. However, the beams must be properly aligned to ensure that the highest power is radiated towards (and received by) the user equipment…

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User scheduling and beamforming design are two crucial yet coupled topics for wireless communication systems. They are usually optimized separately with conventional optimization methods. In this paper, a novel cross-layer optimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Shiwen He , Zhenyu An , Jianyue Zhu , Min Zhang , Yongming Huang , Yaoxue Zhang

In many wireless communication applications, it is desirable to transmit the same data to multiple user equipments (UEs). Physical layer multicasting presents an efficient transmission topology to exploit the beamforming capabilities at the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Mahmoud Zaher , Emil Björnson , Marina Petrova

A full-duplex two-way relay channel with multiple antennas is considered. For this three-node network, the beamforming design needs to suppress self-interference. While a traditional way is to apply zero-forcing for self-interference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Zhigang Wen , Shuai Wang , Xiaoqing Liu , Junwei Zou

In this paper, we investigate the combination of non-orthogonal multiple access and millimeter-Wave communications (mmWave-NOMA). A downlink cellular system is considered, where an analog phased array is equipped at both the base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Lipeng Zhu , Jun Zhang , Zhenyu Xiao , Xianbin Cao , Dapeng Oliver Wu , Xiang-Gen Xia

In cellular wireless networks, user association refers to the problem of assigning mobile users to base station cells -- a critical, but challenging, problem in many emerging small cell and heterogeneous networks. This paper considers a…

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It is known that data rates in standard cellular networks are limited due to inter-cell interference. An effective solution of this problem is to use the multi-cell cooperation idea. In Cloud Radio Access Network, which is a candidate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Fehmi Emre Kadan , Ali Özgür Yılmaz

In cell-free massive MIMO systems with multiple distributed access points (APs) serving multiple users over the same time-frequency resources, downlink beamforming is done through spatial precoding. Precoding vectors can be optimally…

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This paper investigates the optimization of beamforming design in a system with integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), where the base station (BS) sends signals for simultaneous multiuser communication and radar sensing. We aim at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Zhenyao He , Wei Xu , Hong Shen , Yongming Huang , Huahua Xiao

This paper investigates energy efficiency (EE) optimization for an uplink multiuser system assisted by a movable-element reconfigurable intelligent surface (ME-RIS) and a base station equipped with movable antennas (MA-BS). We jointly…

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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted cell-free (CF) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks can significantly enhance system performance. However, the extensive deployment of RIS elements imposes considerable channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Hongqin Ke , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen , Zhaohua Lu

This letter develops an optimum beamforming method for downlink transmissions in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, which employ a massive number of distributed access points to provide concurrent services to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Andong Zhou , Jingxian Wu , Erik G. Larsson , Pingzhi Fan

This paper proposes an approach that leverages multimodal data by integrating visual images with radio frequency (RF) pilots to optimize user association and beamforming in a downlink wireless cellular network under a max-min fairness…

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In this paper, we optimize user scheduling, power allocation and beamforming in distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks implementing user-centric clustering. We study both the coherent and non-coherent transmission modes,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Hussein A. Ammar , Raviraj Adve , Shahram Shahbazpanahi , Gary Boudreau , Kothapalli Venkata Srinivas

Integrating device-to-device (D2D) communication into cellular networks can significantly reduce the transmission burden on base stations (BSs). Besides, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is envisioned as a key feature in future…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Tao Jiang , Ming Jin , Qinghua Guo , Yinhong Liu , Yaming Li

In this paper, we propose a new beamforming design to maximize energy efficiency (EE) for multiple input single output interfering broadcast channels (IFBC). Under this model, the EE problem is non-convex in general due to the coupled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Sang-Rim Lee , Jaehoon Jung , Haewook Park , Inkyu Lee

Cell-free network is considered as a promising architecture for satisfying more demands of future wireless networks, where distributed access points coordinate with an edge cloud processor to jointly provide service to a smaller number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Weilai Li , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian , Meihui Hua

We study physical layer multicasting in multicell networks where each base station, equipped with multiple antennas, transmits a common message using a single beamformer to multiple users in the same cell. We investigate two coordinated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-23 Zhengzheng Xiang , Meixia Tao , Xiaodong Wang

This paper pioneers the field of multi-user holographic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications, laying a solid foundation for future innovations in next-generation aerial wireless networks. The study focuses on the challenging problem…