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This paper studies energy-efficient hybrid beamforming architectures and its algorithm design in millimeter-wave communication systems, aiming to address the challenges faced by existing hybrid beamforming due to low hardware flexibility…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Hongpu Zhang , Yulu Guo , Liuxun Xue , Xingchen Liu , Shu Sun , Ruifeng Gao , Xianghao Yu , Meixia Tao

In a cell-free massive MIMO architecture a very large number of distributed access points simultaneously and jointly serves a much smaller number of mobile stations; a variant of the cell-free technique is the user-centric approach, wherein…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-28 Mario Alonzo , Stefano Buzzi , Alessio Zappone , Ciro D'Elia

Hybrid beamforming is a promising technology to improve the energy efficiency of massive MIMO systems. In particular, subarray hybrid beamforming can further decrease power consumption by reducing the number of phase-shifters. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Hamed Hojatian , Jérémy Nadal , Jean-François Frigon , François Leduc-Primeau

In this paper, two novel hybrid beamforming methods are proposed to reduce the cost and power consumption of hybrid beamformers with subconnected phase shifter network structure in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Sohail Payami , Mir Ghoraishi , Mehrdad Dianati , Mathini Sellathurai

In this paper, we design robust beamforming to guarantee the physical layer security for a multiuser beam division multiple access (BDMA) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, when the channel estimation errors are taken…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Fengchao Zhu , Feifei Gao , Hai Lin , Shi Jin , Junhui Zhao

Beamforming is one of the key techniques in millimeter wave (mmWave) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communications. Designing appropriate beamforming not only improves the quality and strength of the received signal, but also can help…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-14 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy

This work studies a variant of hybrid beamforming, namely, hybrid beamforming with selection (HBwS), as an attractive solution to reduce the hardware cost of multi-user Massive Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output systems, while retaining good…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Vishnu V. Ratnam , Andreas F. Molisch , Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu , Haralabos C. Papadopoulos

Classical beamforming techniques rely on highly linear transmitters and receivers to allow phase-coherent combining at the transmitter and receiver. The transmitter uses beamforming to steer signal power towards the receiver, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Kang Gao , J. Nicholas Laneman , Bertrand Hochwald

Millimeter wave (mmWave) signals experience orders-of-magnitude more pathloss than the microwave signals currently used in most wireless applications. MmWave systems must therefore leverage large antenna arrays, made possible by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Omar El Ayach , Sridhar Rajagopal , Shadi Abu-Surra , Zhouyue Pi , Robert W. Heath

The high path loss associated with millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency communication can be compensated by large scale antenna arrays such as multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The hybrid beamforming architecture which uses fewer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-17 Evangelos Vlachos , Aryan Kaushik , Muhammad Z. Shakir

This paper proposes optimal beam patterns of analog beamforming for SU (Single User) massive MIMO (Multi-Input Multi-Output) transmission systems. For hybrid beamforming in SU massive MIMO systems, there are several design parameters such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Maki Arai , Kei Sakaguchi , Kiyomichi Araki

Beamforming is indispensable in the operation of 60-GHz millimeter-wave directional multi-gigabit Wi-Fi. Simple power method and its extensions enable the transmitting and receiving antenna arrays to form a beam for single spatial stream.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Keang-Po Ho , Shi Cheng , Jianhan Liu

Hybrid beamforming (HBF) and antenna selection are promising techniques for improving the energy efficiency~(EE) of massive multiple-input multiple-output~(mMIMO) systems. However, the transmitter architecture may contain several parameters…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-01 Hamed Hojatian , Zoubeir Mlika , Jérémy Nadal , Jean-François Frigon , François Leduc-Primeau

Hybrid beamforming provides a promising solution to achieve high data rate transmission at millimeter waves. Implementing hybrid beamforming at a transceiver based on available channel state information is a common solution. However, many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Hsiao-Lan Chiang , Wolfgang Rave , Tobias Kadur , Gerhard Fettweis

In this paper, we study the channel estimation problem in correlated massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems with a reduced number of radio-frequency (RF) chains. Importantly, other than the knowledge of channel correlation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Javad Mirzaei , Shahram ShahbazPanahi , Foad Sohrabi , Raviraj Adve

In this paper, we propose a beamforming design for dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) systems at the millimeter wave (mmWave) band, where hybrid beamforming and sub-arrayed MIMO radar techniques are jointly exploited. We assume that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-25 Fan Liu , Christos Masouros

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems play a key role in wireless communication technologies. A widely considered approach to realize scalable MIMO systems involves architectures comprised of multiple separate modules, each with its…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Ohad Levy , Nir Shlezinger

The potential of using of millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency for future wireless cellular communication systems has motivated the study of large-scale antenna arrays for achieving highly directional beamforming. However, the conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Foad Sohrabi , Wei Yu

In mmWave massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems, hybrid digital/analog beamforming has been recognized as an economic means to overcome the severe mmWave propagation loss. To facilitate beamforming for mmWace mMIMO, there…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-19 Shijian Gao , Xiang Cheng , Liuqing Yang

This paper designs a novel hybrid (a mixture of analog and digital) beamforming and examines the relation between the hybrid and digital beamformings for downlink multiuser massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems. We assume…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-04 Tadilo Endeshaw Bogale , Long Bao Le