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We consider the problem of coordinated multi- cell downlink beamforming in massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems consisting of N cells, Nt antennas per base station (BS) and K user terminals (UTs) per cell. Specifically, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Subhash Lakshminarayana , Mohamad Assaad , Merouane Debbah

Millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular systems will enable gigabit-per-second data rates thanks to the large bandwidth available at mmWave frequencies. To realize sufficient link margin, mmWave systems will employ directional beamforming with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Omar El Ayach , Geert Leus , Robert W. Heath

Multi-cell coordinated beamforming (MCBF), where multiple base stations (BSs) collaborate with each other in the beamforming design for mitigating the inter-cell interference, has been a subject drawing great attention recently. Most MCBF…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Chao Shen , Tsung-Hui Chang , Kun-Yu Wang , Zhengding Qiu , Chong-Yung Chi

At millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies, signals are prone to blocking by objects in the environment, which causes paths to go from line-of-sight (LOS) to non-LOS (NLOS). We consider macrodiversity as a strategy to improve the performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Enass Hriba , Matthew C. Valenti

Signal occlusion by building blockages is a double-edged sword for the performance of millimeter-wave (mmW) communication networks. Buildings may dominantly attenuate the useful signals, especially when mmW base stations (BSs) are sparsely…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Jeemin Kim , Jihong Park , Seunghwan Kim , Seong-Lyun Kim , Ki Won Sung , Kwang Soon Kim

Beam codebooks are integral components of the future millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system to relax the reliance on the instantaneous channel state information (CSI). The design of these codebooks, therefore,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yu Zhang , Ahmed Alkhateeb

We characterize the rate coverage distribution for a spectrum-shared millimeter wave downlink cellular network. Each of multiple cellular operators owns separate mmWave bandwidth, but shares the spectrum amongst each other while using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Jeonghun Park , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Robert W. Heath

On a multi-antenna broadcast channel, simultaneous transmission to multiple users by joint beamforming and scheduling is capable of achieving high throughput, which grows double logarithmically with the number of users. The sum rate for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-27 Kaibin Huang , Robert W. Heath, , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Multi-frequency massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communication is a promising strategy for both 5G and future 6G systems, ensuring reliable transmission while enhancing frequency resource utilization. Statistical channel state…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Jinke Tang , Li You , Xinrui Gong , Chenjie Xie , Xiqi Gao , Xiang-Gen Xia , Xueyuan Shi

Motivated by the issue of inaccurate channel state information (CSI) at the base station (BS), which is commonly due to feedback/processing delays and compression problems, in this paper, we introduce a scalable idea of adopting artificial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Muhammad Karam Shehzad , Luca Rose , Mohamad Assaad

The surge in mobile broadband data demands is expected to surpass the available spectrum capacity below 6 GHz. This expectation has prompted the exploration of millimeter wave (mm-wave) frequency bands as a candidate technology for next…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Yahia Shabara , C. Emre Koksal , Eylem Ekici

Millimeter wave (mmWave) band, or high frequencies such as THz, has large undeveloped band of spectrum. However, wireless channels over the mmWave band usually have one or two paths only due to the severe attenuation. The channel property…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Xi Yang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

In mmWave networks, a large or nearby object can obstruct multiple communication links, which results in spatial correlation in the blocking probability between a user and two or more base stations (BSs). This paper characterizes this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Saurabh Kumar Gupta , Vikrant Malik , Abhishek K. Gupta , Jeffrey G. Andrews

For millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, hybrid processing architecture is usually used to reduce the complexity and cost, which poses a very challenging issue in channel estimation. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Peihao Dong , Hua Zhang , Geoffrey Ye Li , Ivan Simoes Gaspar , Navid NaderiAlizadeh

In reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems, in order to overcome the limitation of the conventional channel state information (CSI) acquisition techniques, this paper proposes a location…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zhe Xing , Rui Wang , Xiaojun Yuan , Jun Wu

A novel technique is proposed which enables each transmitter to acquire global channel state information (CSI) from the sole knowledge of individual received signal power measurements, which makes dedicated feedback or inter-transmitter…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Chao Zhang , Vineeth Varma , Samson Lasaulce , Raphael Visoz

By moving to millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies, base stations (BSs) will be densely deployed to provide seamless coverage in sixth generation (6G) mobile communication systems, which, unfortunately, leads to severe cell-edge problem. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Junyuan Wang , Lin Dai , Lu Yang , Bo Bai

In this paper, we study how to jointly design the phase shift of cascaded multi-IRSs and the precoding vector of the BS to improve the coverage in dense urban areas. We aim to maximize the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the user equipment…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Renjie Liang , Jiancun Fan , Yimeng Ge

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication is one feasible solution for high data-rate applications like vehicular-to-everything communication and next generation cellular communication. Configuring mmWave links, which can be done through…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Anum Ali , Nuria González-Prelcic , Robert W. Heath

Driven by the ultra-high throughput requirements of 6G, wireless communications are migrating to centimeter wave (cmWave) bands to overcome the limitations of current spectral resources. Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Ziqi Han , Ziwei Wan , Hengwei Zhang , Keke Ying , Chabalala S. Chabalala , Dapeng Li , Wei Wang , Zhen Gao