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This paper studies the beamforming design problem to achieve max-min fairness (MMF) in multibeam satellite communications. Contrary to the conventional linear precoding (NoRS) that relies on fully treating any residual interference as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Longfei Yin , Bruno Clerckx

Presence of multiple antennas on both sides of a communication channel promises significant improvements in system throughput and power efficiency. In effect, a new class of large multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Maksym A. Girnyk , Mikko Vehkaperä , Lars K. Rasmussen

Cell-Free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are two promising technologies for application to beyond-5G networks. This paper considers Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Symeon Chatzinotas , Marco Di Renzo , Björn Ottersten

Massive MIMO is currently a leading physical layer technology candidate that can dramatically enhance throughput in 5G systems, for both unicast and multicast transmission modalities. As antenna elements are becoming smaller and cheaper in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-05 Mohamed Salah Ibrahim , Aritra Konar , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos

In this work, we introduce the pattern-domain pilot design paradigm based on a "superposition of orthogonal-building-blocks" with significantly larger contention space to enhance the massive machine-type communications (mMTC) random access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xiaoming Dai , Tiantian Yan , Qianqian Li , Hua Li , Xiyuan Wang

Cell-free massive MIMO and symbiotic radio communication have been recently proposed as the promising beyond fifth-generation (B5G) networking architecture and transmission technology, respectively. To reap the benefits of both, this paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-18 Zhuoyin Dai , Ruoguang Li , Jingran Xu , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin

The industrial Internet of things (IIoT) is revolutionizing industrial processes by facilitating massive machine-type communications among countless interconnected devices. To efficiently handle the resulting large-scale and sporadic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Enrico Testi , Giulia Torcolacci , Nicolò Decarli , Davide Dardari , Enrico Paolini

Massive number of internet of things (IoT) devices are expected to simultaneously connect to the mMTC and beyond future generations of wireless network, posing severe challenge to aspects such as RACH procedure, user equipment detection and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Zhifeng Yuan , Weimin Li , Yuzhou Hu , Xun Yang , Hong Tang , Jianqiang Dai

Multi-user Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) offers big advantages over conventional point-to-point MIMO: it works with cheap single-antenna terminals, a rich scattering environment is not required, and resource allocation is simplified…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Erik G. Larsson , Ove Edfors , Fredrik Tufvesson , Thomas L. Marzetta

In this paper, we analyze the performance of the uplink communication of massive multi-cell multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems under the effects of pilot contamination and delayed channels because of terminal mobility. The base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Anastasios K. Papazafeiropoulos , Hien Quoc Ngo , Tharm Ratnarajah

Semi-grant-free (Semi-GF) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) enables grant-free (GF) and grant-based (GB) users to share the same resource blocks, thereby balancing the connectivity and stability of communications. This letter analyzes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Chao Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Wenqiang Yi , Zhijin Qin , Zhiguo Ding

Most existing studies on joint activity detection and channel estimation for grant-free massive random access (RA) systems assume perfect synchronization among all active users, which is hard to achieve in practice. Therefore, this paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Xinyu Bian , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

The cell-free networking paradigm constitutes a revolutionary architecture for future generations of wireless networks, which has been recently considered in synergy with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), a promising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Konstantinos D. Katsanos , George C. Alexandropoulos

We consider a multi-user (MU) full-duplex (FD) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system, in which the base station transceiver is equipped with transmit and receive position reconfigurable antennas (PRAs) to mitigate both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Chengjie Zhao , Yuanzhe Gong , Tho Le-Ngoc

Multi-antenna technologies such as massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (massive MIMO) and beamforming are key features to enhance performance, in terms of capacity and coverage, by using a large number of antennas intelligently. With the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Jalal Rachad , Ridha Nasri , Laurent Decreusefond

This paper takes a new look at Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) through the lens of the dynamic cooperation cluster framework from the Network MIMO literature. The purpose is to identify and address scalability issues…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

Hybrid beamforming is an emerging technology for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems due to the advantages of lower complexity, cost, and power consumption. Recently, intelligent reflection surface (IRS) has been proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Jeongjae Lee , Songnam Hong

This paper presents an asymptotic analysis of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems assisted by a 1-bit Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) under Ricean fading conditions. Using random matrix theory, we show that, in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Panagiotis Gavriilidis , Kyriakos Stylianopoulos , George C. Alexandropoulos

How to meet the demand for increasing number of users, higher data rates, and stringent quality-of-service (QoS) in the beyond fifth-generation (B5G) networks? Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is considered as a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-19 Shuaifei Chen , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Jing Zhang , Bo Ai

In massive machine-type communications (mMTC), grant-free access is a key enabler for a massive number of users to be connected to a base station with low signaling overhead and low latency. In this paper, a two-stage genetic algorithm (GA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Nam Yul Yu