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Beamforming techniques are considered as essential parts to compensate severe path losses in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications. In particular, these techniques adopt large antenna arrays and formulate narrow beams to obtain…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Muhammad Baqer Mollah , Honggang Wang , Mohammad Ataul Karim , Hua Fang

In this paper, we investigate multi-user modular extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) communication systems, where modular extremely large-scale uniform linear array (XL-ULA) is deployed at the base station (BS) to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Xinrui Li , Zhenjun Dong , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

Cell-free massive MIMO systems consist of many distributed access points with simple components that jointly serve the users. In millimeter wave bands, only a limited set of predetermined beams can be supported. In a network that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Cenk M. Yetis , Emil Björnson , Pontus Giselsson

The recent concept of beamspace multiple input multiple output (MIMO) can significantly reduce the number of required radio-frequency (RF) chains in millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive MIMO systems without obvious performance loss. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Bichai Wang , Linglong Dai , Zhaocheng Wang , Ning Ge , Shidong Zhou

This paper investigates the extent to which spectrum sharing in mmWave networks with multiple cellular operators is a viable alternative to traditional dedicated spectrum allocation. Specifically, we develop a general mathematical framework…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Federico Boccardi , Carlo Fischione , Gabor Fodor , Michele Zorzi

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication technologies have recently emerged as an attractive solution to meet the exponentially increasing demand on mobile data traffic. Moreover, ultra dense networks (UDNs) combined with mmWave technology…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-25 H. Zhang , S. Huang , C. Jiang , K. Long , V. C. M. Leung , H. Vincent Poor

Coherent communications aim to support higher data rates and extended connectivity at lower power consumption compared with traditional point-to-point transmissions. The typical setting of coherent communication schemes is based on a single…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Yi Shi , Yalin E. Sagduyu

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

Millimeter wave (mmW) communication is a promising solution for providing high-capacity wireless network access. However, the benefits of mmW are limited by the fact that the channel between a mmW access point and the user equipment can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Mehdi Naderi Soorki , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis

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

In order to cope with the severe path loss, millimeter-wave (mm-wave) systems exploit highly directional communication. As a consequence, even a slight beam misalignment between two communicating devices (for example, due to mobility) can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Joan Palacios , Danilo De Donno , Joerg Widmer

Hybrid precoders and combiners are designed for cooperative cell-free multi-user millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) cellular networks for low complexity interference mitigation. Initially, we derive an optimal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Meesam Jafri , Suraj Srivastava , Naveen K. D. Venkategowda , Aditya K. Jagannatham , Lajos Hanzo

In this letter, we investigate the millimeter wave (mmWave) downlink multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) system, adopting the dynamic subarray architecture at the base station and considering the multi-stream communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-09 Gengshan Wang , Zhijia Yang , Tierui Gong

We investigate the multiuser scheduling problem in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and hybrid beamforming in which a base station (BS) communicates with multiple users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Pouya Agheli , Tugce Kobal , François Durand , Matthew Andrews

The synergetic gains of spectrum sharing and millimeter wave communication networks have recently attracted attention, owing to the interference canceling benefits of highly-directional beamforming in such systems. In principle, fine-tuned…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-02 Flavio Maschietti , Paul de Kerret , David Gesbert

High-frequency bands such as millimeter-wave and terahertz require narrow beams due to path loss and shadowing. Beam alignment (BA) methods allow the transceivers to adjust the directions of these beams efficiently by exploiting the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Ozlem Yildiz , Abbas Khalili , Elza Erkip

This article investigates beam alignment for multi-user millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multi-input multi-output system. Unlike the existing works using machine learning (ML), an alignment method with partial beams using ML (AMPBML) is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Wenyan Ma , Chenhao Qi , Geoffrey Ye Li

The demands for high data rates in 6G networks have driven the transition toward higher frequencies and larger antenna apertures, giving rise to the near-field communications. In the near-field region, spherical waves enable beam focusing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Shupei Zhang , Boya Di , Lingyang Song

While mmWave bands provide a large bandwidth for mobile broadband services, they suffer from severe path loss and shadowing. Multiple-antenna techniques such as beamforming (BF) can be applied to compensate the signal attenuation. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Seyedeh Maryam Hosseini , Shahram Shahsavari , Catherine Rosenberg

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