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Millimeter wave systems suffer from high power consumption and are constrained to use low resolution quantizers --digital to analog and analog to digital converters (DACs and ADCs). However, low resolution quantization leads to reduced data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Abbas Khalili , Elza Erkip , Sundeep Rangan

Leveraging the available millimeter wave spectrum will be important for 5G. In this work, we investigate the performance of digital beamforming with low resolution ADCs based on link level simulations including channel estimation, MIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-15 K. Roth , J. A. Nossek

Millimeter wave (mmWave) systems operating over a wide bandwidth and using a large number of antennas impose a heavy burden on power consumption. In a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) uplink, analog-to-digital con- verters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Jinseok Choi , Brian L. Evans , Alan Gatherer

Digital phased arrays have often been disregarded for millimeter-wave communications since the analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are power-hungry. In this paper, we provide a different perspective on this matter by demonstrating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Erik Kennerland , Bengt Lindoff , Emil Björnson

This letter develops a novel transmit beamforming (BF) design for canceling self-interference (SI) in analog in-band full-duplex phased arrays. Our design maximizes transmit BF gain in a desired direction while simultaneously reducing SI…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-26 Ao Liu , Ian P. Roberts , Taneli Riihonen , Weixing Sheng

In this paper, we propose a low-complexity beamspace channel denoising algorithm for millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems with low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). The proposed method…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Hanyoung Park , Eunho Kim , Ji-Woong Choi

Hybrid digital and analog beamforming is a highly effective technique for implementing beamforming methods in millimeter wave (mmWave) systems. It provides a viable solution to replace the complex fully digital beamforming techniques.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Rohollah Vahdani , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

In millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems, beamforming with large antenna arrays is critical to overcome high path losses. Separating all-digital beamforming into analog and digital stages can provide the large reduction in power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Junmo Sung , Brian L. Evans

In this paper, we investigate a multi-cell millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network with low-precision analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) at the base station (BS). Each cell serves multiple users and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Hua Zhang , Geoffrey Ye Li , Xiaohu You

We study multi-user massive multiple-input single-output (MISO) systems and focus on downlink transmission, where the base station (BS) employs a large antenna array with low-cost 1-bit digital-to-analog converters (DACs). The direct…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-09 Ang Li , Christos Masouros , Fan Liu , A. L. Swindlehurst

Full-duplex (FD) systems have the capability to transmit and receive at the same time in the same frequency band. FD systems can reduce congestion and latency and improve coverage and spectral efficiency. As a relay, they can increase range…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 Elyes Balti , Brian L. Evans

Millimeter wave (mmW) communications is the key enabler of 5G cellular networks due to vast spectrum availability that could boost peak rate and capacity. Due to increased propagation loss in mmW band, transceivers with massive antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-20 Han Yan , Sridhar Ramesh , Timothy Gallagher , Curtis Ling , Danijela Cabric

Hybrid beamforming is vital in modern wireless systems, especially for massive MIMO and millimeter-wave (mmWave) deployments, offering efficient directional transmission with reduced hardware complexity. However, effective beamforming in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Weicao Deng , Min Li , Ming-Min Zhao , Min-Jian Zhao , Osvaldo Simeone

Having lower quantization resolution, has been introduced in the literature, as a solution to reduce the power consumption of massive MIMO and millimeter wave MIMO systems. In this paper, we analyze bit error rate (BER) performance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-20 Azad Azizzadeh , Reza Mohammadkhani , Seyed Vahab Al-Din Makki , Emil Björnson

Low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) have emerged as a promising technology for reducing power consumption and complexity in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems while maintaining satisfactory spectral and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Mengyuan Ma , Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Italo Atzeni , Markku Juntti

This paper conceives a hybrid beamforming design (HBF) that maximizes the energy efficiency (EE) of an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)-enabled millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. In the system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Jitendra Singh , Suraj Srivastava , Aditya K. Jagannatham

The availability of large bandwidth at millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies is one of the major factors that rendered very high frequencies a promising candidate enabler for fifth generation (5G) mobile communication networks. To confront…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-04 George C. Alexandropoulos , Symeon Chouvardas

Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) play a critical role in digital signal acquisition across various applications, but their performance is inherently constrained by sampling rates and bit budgets. This bit budget imposes a trade-off…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Vaclav Pavlicek , Ayush Bhandari

This paper considers hybrid beamforming (HB) for downlink multiuser massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems with frequency selective channels. For this system, first we determine the required number of radio frequency (RF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Tadilo Endeshaw Bogale , Long Bao Le , Afshin Haghighat , Luc Vandendorpe

This paper proposed new hybrid, analog-digital, beamforming for a multiuser millimeter wave (mm-wave) relay system. For this system, we consider a sum rate maximization problem. The proposed hybrid beamforming is designed indirectly by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xuan Xue , Tadilo Endeshaw Bogale , Xianbin Wang , Yongchao Wang , Long Bao Le