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In the research of RIS-assisted communication systems, channel estimation is a problem of vital importance for further performance optimization. In order to reduce the pilot overhead to the greatest extent, blind channel estimation methods…

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Accurate calibration of coherent optical receivers is essential for reliable performance assessment in coherent communications, precision and quantum sensing, and continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD), where the effective…

Massive MIMO is a promising technique to increase the spectral efficiency (SE) of cellular networks, by deploying antenna arrays with hundreds or thousands of active elements at the base stations and performing coherent transceiver…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-21 Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson , Mérouane Debbah

Intelligent spectrum management is crucial for improving spectrum efficiency and achieving secure utilization of spectrum resources. However, existing intelligent spectrum management methods, typically based on small-scale models, suffer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Fuhui Zhou , Chunyu Liu , Hao Zhang , Wei Wu , Qihui Wu , Tony Q. S. Quek , Chan-Byoung Chae

Massive MIMO uses a large number of antennas to increase the spectral efficiency (SE) through spatial multiplexing of users, which requires accurate channel state information. It is often assumed that regular pilots (RP), where a fraction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Daniel Verenzuela , Emil Björnson , Xiaojie Wang , Maximilian Arnold , Stephan ten Brink

Residual self-interference (SI) cancellation in the digital baseband is an important problem in full-duplex (FD) communication systems. In this paper, we propose a new technique for estimating the SI and communication channels in a FD…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Abbas Koohian , Hani Mehrpouyan , Ali A. Nasir , Salman Durrani , Mohammad Azarbad , Steven D. Blostein

This paper considers the problem of spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks when the primary user employs Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM). We develop cooperative sequential detection algorithms based on energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-11 ArunKumar Jayaprakasam , Vinod Sharma , Chandra R. Murthy , Prashant Narayanan

We study the design of spectrally efficient fiber-optical communication systems based on different spatially coupled (SC) forward error correction (FEC) schemes. In particular, we optimize the allocation of the coded bits from the FEC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Christian Häger , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Fredrik Brännström , Alex Alvarado , Erik Agrell

In a typical multi-standard military communication receiver, fast and reliable spectrum sensing unit is required to extract the information of multiple channels (frequency bands) present in a wideband input signal. In this paper, an energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-16 S. J. Darak , A. P. Vinod , E. M-K. Lai

Accurate channel state information (CSI) underpins reliable and efficient wireless communication. However, acquiring CSI via pilot estimation incurs substantial overhead, especially in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Guangming Liang , Mingjie Yang , Dongzhu Liu , Paul Henderson , Lajos Hanzo

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) extend the concept of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces by cascading multiple programmable layers, enabling advanced electromagnetic wave transformations for communication and sensing applications.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Giuseppe Pettanice , Andrea Abrardo , Alberto Toccafondi , Marco Di Renzo

In this paper, we have evaluated various methods of time-frequency-selective fading channels estimation in OFDM system and some of them improved under time varying conditions. So, these different techniques will be studied through different…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-05-16 Zaier Aida , Ridha Bouallegue

In this paper, we consider a joint unicast and multi-group multicast cell-free distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, while accounting for co-pilot assignment strategy based channel estimation, pilot contamination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Jiamin Li , Qijun Pan , Zhenggang Wu , Pengcheng Zhu , Dongming Wang , Xiaohu You

In large scale dynamic wireless networks, the amount of overhead caused by channel estimation (CE) is becoming one of the main performance bottlenecks. This is due to the large number users whose channels should be estimated, the user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Mohanad Obeed , Yasser Al-Eryani , Anas Chaaban

In this paper, pilot-symbol-assisted transmission in cognitive radio systems over time selective flat fading channels is studied. It is assumed that causal and noncausal Wiener filter estimators are used at the secondary receiver with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-09 Sami Akin , Mustafa Cenk Gursoy

The performance of pilot-aided joint-channel carrier-phase estimation (CPE) in space-division multiplexed multicore fiber (MCF) transmission with correlated phase noise is studied. To that end, a system model describing uncoded MCF…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-15 Arni F. Alfredsson , Erik Agrell , Henk Wymeersch , Benjamin J. Puttnam , Georg Rademacher , Ruben S. Luís , Magnus Karlsson

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is an essential technology for the 6G communication system, which enables the conventional wireless communication network capable of sensing targets around. The shared use of pilots is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Jiamo Jiang , Mingfeng Xu , Zhongyuan Zhao , Kaifeng Han , Yang Li , Ying Du , Zhiqin Wang

A polar-coded transmission (PCT) scheme with joint channel estimation and decoding is proposed for channels with unknown channel state information (CSI). The CSI is estimated via successive cancellation (SC) decoding and the constraints…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Peihong Yuan , Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Gerhard Kramer

For downlink multiple-user (MU) transmission based on non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), the advanced receiver strategy is required to cancel the inter-user interference, e.g., successive interference cancellation (SIC). The SIC process…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Minseok Choi , Daejung Yoon , Joongheon Kim

In this paper, we compare different metrics to predict the error rate of optical systems based on nonbinary forward error correction (FEC). It is shown that the correct metric to predict the performance of coded modulation based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Laurent Schmalen , Alex Alvarado , Rafael Rios-Müller