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Analog/digital hybrid beamforming architectures with large-scale antenna arrays have been widely considered in millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems because they can address the tradeoff between performance and hardware efficiency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-05 Hongyu Li , Ming Li , Qian Liu

In this letter, we consider optimal hybrid beamforming design to minimize the transmission power under individual signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) constraints in a multiuser massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-27 Guangda Zang , Ying Cui , Hei Victor Cheng , Feng Yang , Lianghui Ding , Hui Liu

Cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) enhances spectral and energy efficiency compared to conventional cellular networks by enabling joint transmission and reception across a large number of distributed access points…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

This paper considers a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) where spatially distributed remote radio heads (RRHs) communicate with a full-duplex user. In order to reflect a realistic scenario, the uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) RRHs are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Mohammadali Mohammadi , Himal A. Suraweera , Chintha Tellambura

This correspondence paper investigates joint design of small base station (SBS) clustering, multicast beamforming for access and backhaul links, as well as frequency allocation in backhaul transmission to minimize the total power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Jun Xu , Pengcheng Zhu , Jiamin Li , Xiaohu You

In this paper, we investigate network-assisted full-duplex (NAFD) cell-free millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with digital-to-analog converter (DAC) quantization and fronthaul compression. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Jiamin Li , Qingrui Fan , Yu Zhang , Pengcheng Zhu , Dongming Wang , Hao Wu , Xiaohu You

Dual-function-radar-communication (DFRC) is a promising candidate technology for next-generation networks. By integrating hybrid analog-digital (HAD) beamforming into a multi-user millimeter-wave (mmWave) DFRC system, we design a new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Xin Jin , Tiejun Lv , Wei Ni , Zhipeng Lin , Qiuming Zhu , Ekram Hossain , H. Vincent Poor

To enhance flexibility and facilitate resource cooperation, a novel fully-decoupled radio access network (FD-RAN) architecture is proposed for 6G. However, the decoupling of uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) in FD-RAN makes the existing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Jingbo Liu , Jiacheng Chen , Zongxi Liu , Haibo Zhou

This paper optimizes the fronthaul bit allocation in massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems operating with limited-capacity fronthaul links. We consider an advanced antenna system (AAS) controlled by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Emil Bjornson , Joakim Jalden

For the energy-efficient deployment of cell-free massive MIMO functionality in a practical wireless network, the end-to-end (from radio site to the cloud) energy-aware operation is essential. In line with the cloudification and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Meysam Masoudi , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

Previous works on cell-free massive MIMO mostly consider physical-layer and fronthaul transport aspects. How to deploy cell-free massive MIMO functionality in a practical wireless system is an open problem. This paper proposes a new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Meysam Masoudi , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

Given the high throughput requirement for 5G, merging millimeter wave technologies and multi-user MIMO seems a very promising strategy. As hardware limitations impede to realize a full digital architecture, hybrid MIMO architectures, using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Steve Blandino , Claude Desset , Cheng-Ming Chen , Andre Bourdoux , Sofie Pollin

A cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is considered as a candidate to meet the expectations of higher data rate de- mands in wireless networks. In C-RAN, low energy base stations (BSs) are deployed over a small geography and are allowed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-11 Yigit Ugur , Zohaib Hassan Awan , Aydin Sezgin

In this paper, we consider a generalized sub-array-connected (GSAC) architecture for arbitrary radio frequency (RF) chain and antenna configurations, where the number of RF chains connected to a sub-array and the number of antennas in each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Yun Chen , Da Chen , Tao Jiang , Lajos Hanzo

This paper proposes a genetic algorithm assisted hybrid signal to leakage plus noise ratio (SLNR) beamforming design for wireless fronthaul scenario. The digital precoder of the proposed hybrid SLNR beamforming is expressed in closed-form.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Shangbin Wu

This work studies the joint design of precoding and backhaul compression strategies for the downlink of cloud radio access networks. In these systems, a central encoder is connected to multiple multi-antenna base stations (BSs) via…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Onur Sahin , Shlomo Shamai

This paper studies the uplink of a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) where the cell sites are connected to a cloud-computing-based central processor (CP) with noiseless backhaul links with finite capacities. We employ a simple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-19 Yuhan Zhou , Wei Yu

In this letter, we investigate the hybrid beamforming for millimeter wave massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL). Imperfect channel state information (CSI) is assumed to be available…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-22 Qisheng Wang , Keming Feng , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

In this paper, we aim to design highly energy efficient end-to-end communication for millimeter wave multiple-input multiple-output systems. This is done by jointly optimizing the digital-to-analog converter (DAC)/analog-to-digital…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-12 Aryan Kaushik , Evangelos Vlachos , Christos Tsinos , John Thompson , Symeon Chatzinotas

Robust beamforming design under imperfect channel state information (CSI) is a fundamental challenge in multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems, particularly when the channel estimation error statistics are unknown.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Wenzhuo Zou , Ming-Min Zhao , An Liu , Min-Jian Zhao