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Massive MIMO is bringing significant performance improvements in the context of outdoor macrocells, such as favourable propagation conditions, spatially confined communication, high antenna gains to overcome pathloss, and good angular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-26 Andrea P. Guevara , Sibren De Bast , Sofie Pollin

Future wireless communication systems will integrate both sub-6 GHz and millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency bands within multi-antenna architectures to meet the increasing demand for high data rates. In such multi-band systems, reliable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Faruk Pasic , Jure Soklič , Robert Langwieser , Stefan Schwarz , Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker

This paper presents results on the achievable spectral efficiency and on the energy efficiency for a wireless multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) link operating at millimeter wave frequencies (mmWave) in a typical 5G scenario. Two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Tommaso Foggi , Alessandro Ugolini , Giulio Colavolpe

Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is no longer a "wild" or "promising" concept for future cellular networks - in 2018 it became a reality. Base stations (BSs) with 64 fully digital transceiver chains were commercially deployed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-13 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti , Henk Wymeersch , Jakob Hoydis , Thomas L. Marzetta

Millimeter wave (mmWave) systems will likely employ directional beamforming with large antenna arrays at both the transmitters and receivers. Acquiring channel knowledge to design these beamformers, however, is challenging due to the large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Geert Leus , Robert W. Heath

This research study introduces a novel small antenna with wideband capacity for the higher frequency range. As a possible contender for 6G wireless networks, the proposed antenna is designed to target the 6G Millimeter-Wave (mmWave)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Atta Ullah , Daniyal Munir , Daniel Lindenschmitt , Hans D. Schotten

With the severe spectrum shortage in conventional cellular bands, millimeter wave (mmW) frequencies between 30 and 300 GHz have been attracting growing attention as a possible candidate for next-generation micro- and picocellular wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Mustafa Riza Akdeniz , Yuanpeng Liu , Mathew K. Samimi , Shu Sun , Sundeep Rangan , Theodore S. Rappaport , Elza Erkip

Massive multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication are key physical layer technologies in future wireless systems. Their deployment, however, is expected to incur excessive baseband processing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Seyed Hadi Mirfarshbafan , Christoph Studer

Data rate requirements for cellular communications are expected to increase 1000-fold by 2020, compared to 2010. This is mainly because of the rapid increase in the number of wireless devices and data hungry applications per-device. This…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-02-25 Muhammad Ali Babar Abbasi , Vincent F. Fusco , Harsh Tataria , Michail Matthaiou

Massive multi-antenna millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz wireless systems promise high-bandwidth communication to multiple user equipments in the same time-frequency resource. The high path loss of wave propagation at such frequencies…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-09 Ramina Ghods , Alexandra Gallyas-Sanhueza , Seyed Hadi Mirfarshbafan , Christoph Studer

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication is a promising solution for coping with the ever-increasing mobile data traffic because of its large bandwidth. To enable a sufficient link margin, a large antenna array employing directional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Reza Ghanaatian , Vahid Jamali , Andreas Burg , Robert Schober

Massive MIMO, a candidate for 5G technology, promises significant gains in wireless data rates and link reliability by using large numbers of antennas (more than 64) at the base transceiver station (BTS). Extra antennas help by focusing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Garimella Rama Murthy , Kunal Sankhe

The millimeter wave (mmWave) band, which is a prime candidate for 5G cellular networks, seems attractive for wireless energy harvesting. This is because it will feature large antenna arrays as well as extremely dense base station (BS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Talha Ahmed Khan , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Robert W. Heath

Millimeter Wave (mmWave) band provides a large spectrum to meet the high-demand capacity by the 5th generation (5G) wireless networks. However, to fully exploit the available spectrum, obstacles such as high path loss, channel sparsity, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Mojtaba Ahmadi Almasi , Roohollah Amiri , Hani Mehrpouyan

The tremendous bandwidth available in the millimeter wave (mmW) frequencies between 30 and 300 GHz have made these bands an attractive candidate for next-generation cellular systems. However, reliable communication at these frequencies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-20 Parisa A. Eliasi , Sundeep Rangan , Theodore S. Rappaport

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are cellular networks where the base stations (BSs) are equipped with unconventionally many antennas. Such large antenna arrays offer huge spatial degrees-of-freedom for transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-20 Emil Björnson , Michail Matthaiou , Mérouane Debbah

Aiming for the sixth generation (6G) wireless communications, distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems hold significant potential for spatial multiplexing. In order to evaluate the ability of a distributed massive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-28 Yingjie Xu , Michiel Sandra , Xuesong Cai , Sara Willhammar , Fredrik Tufvesson

This paper proposes a cellular network exploiting millimeter-wave (mmWave) and ultra-densified base stations (BSs) to achieve the far-reaching 5G aim in downlink average rate. The mmWave overlaid network however incurs a pitfall that its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Jihong Park , Seong-Lyun Kim , Jens Zander

Millimeter Wave (mmWave) massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems realizing directive beamforming require reliable estimation of the wireless propagation channel. However, mmWave channels are characterized by high variability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Evangelos Vlachos , George C. Alexandropoulos , John Thompson

The full potential of pinching-antenna systems (PAS) can be unblocked if pinching antennas can be accurately activated at positions tailored for the serving users', which means that acquiring accurate channel state information (CSI) at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Gui Zhou , Vasilis Papanikolaou , Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober