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In the uplink of a cell-free massive MIMO system, quantization affects performance in two key domains: the time-domain distortion introduced by finite-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) at the access points (APs), and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

We develop a method to jointly estimate the carrier frequency offset (CFO) and the narrowband channel in millimeter wave (mmWave) MIMO systems operating with one-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). We assume perfect timing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Nitin Jonathan Myers , Robert W. Heath

Hybrid beamforming for frequency-selective channels is a challenging problem as the phase shifters provide the same phase shift to all of the subcarriers. The existing approaches solely rely on the channel's frequency response and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Sohail Payami , Mathini Sellathurai , Konstantinos Nikitopoulos

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) and orthogonal AFDM access (O-AFDMA) are promising techniques based on chirp signals, which are able to suppress the performance deterioration caused by Doppler shifts in high-mobility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yiwei Tao , Miaowen Wen , Yao Ge , Tianqi Mao , Lixia Xiao , Jun Li

Multiple carrier frequency offsets (CFOs) present in the uplink of orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) systems adversely affect subcarrier orthogonality and impose a serious performance loss. In this paper, we propose the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Arman Farhang , Arslan Javaid Majid , Nicola Marchetti , Linda E. Doyle , Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny

We study a full-duplex (FD) cell-free massive MIMO system where distributed access points (APs) operate in FD mode while user equipments (UEs) remain half-duplex. Although simultaneous uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) transmissions improve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Bikshapathi Gouda , Antti Tölli

Movable antenna (MA) technology offers promising potential to enhance wireless communication by allowing flexible antenna movement. To maximize spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs), larger movable regions are required, which may render the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we firstly exploit the inter-user interference (IUI) and inter-cell interference (ICI) as useful references to develop a robust transceiver design based on interference alignment for a downlink multi-user multi-cell…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Xianzhong Xie , Helin Yang , Athanasios V. Vasilakos

In this paper, we investigate the uplink signal detection approaches in the cell-free massive MIMO systems with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serving as aerial access points (APs). The ground users are equipped with multiple antennas and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Xuesong Pan , Zhong Zheng , Xueqing Huang , Zesong Fei

Although it is often used in the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, application of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) over the orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation could suffer from enormous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Yushan Liu , Shun Zhang , Feifei Gao , Jianpeng Ma , Xianbin Wang

The recent surge in deploying extremely large antenna arrays is expected to play a vital role in future sixth generation wireless networks, enabling advanced radar target localization with enhanced angular and range resolution. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Ioannis Gavras , George C. Alexandropoulos

We propose adjustable phase shift pilots (APSPs) for channel acquisition in wideband massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems employing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) to reduce the pilot overhead. Based on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Li You , Xiqi Gao , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Wen Zhong

This paper investigates a multiple input single output (MISO) downlink communication system in which users are equipped with fluid antennas (FAs). First, we adopt a field-response based channel model to characterize the downlink channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Haoran Qin , Wen Chen , Zhendong Li , Qingqing Wu , Nan Cheng , Fangjiong Chen

Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing (AFDM) has been regarded as a candidate integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) waveform owing to its superior communication performance, outperforming the Orthogonal Time-Frequency Space (OTFS)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Yuanfang Ma , Zulin Wang , Peng Yuan , Qin Huang , Yuanhan Ni

This paper investigates a six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA)-aided cell-free multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system. In this system, each distributed access point (AP) can flexibly adjust its array…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Yichi Zhang , Yuchen Zhang , Wenyan Ma , Lipeng Zhu , Jianquan Wang , Wanbin Tang , Rui Zhang

Movable antenna (MA) is a promising technology to improve wireless communication performance by varying the antenna position in a given finite area at the transceivers to create more favorable channel conditions. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Boyu Ning , Rui Zhang

This paper proposes a novel pilot scheme for multi-user uplink channel estimation in extra-large-scale massive MIMO (XL-MIMO) systems with extremely large aperture arrays (ELAA). The large aperture of ELAA introduces spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Yumeng Zhang , Huayan Guo , Vincent Lau

Wireless users with different characteristics will be expected to share spectrum in next generation communication networks. One of the great strengths of wireless networks based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Imran Ali Khan , Saif Khan Mohammed , Ronny Hadani , Ananthanarayanan Chockalingam , Robert Calderbank

Universal filtered multi-carrier (UFMC), which groups and filters subcarriers before transmission, is a potential multi-carrier modulation technique investigated for the emerging Machine-Type Communications (MTC). Considering the relaxed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-26 Yicheng Xu , Hongyun Chu , Xiaodong Wang

We introduce an opportunistic interference mitigation (OIM) protocol, where a user scheduling strategy is utilized in $K$-cell uplink networks with time-invariant channel coefficients and base stations (BSs) having $M$ antennas. Each BS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Bang Chul Jung , Dohyung Park , Won-Yong Shin