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This letter investigates the uplink of a multi-user millimeter wave (mmWave) system, where the base station (BS) is equipped with a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) array and resolution-adaptive analog-to-digital converters…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Hualian Sheng , Xihan Chen , Xiongfei Zhai , An Liu , Min-Jian Zhao

At millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies, the higher cost and power consumption of hardware components in multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) systems do not allow beamforming entirely at the baseband with a separate radio frequency (RF)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-27 Aryan Kaushik , John Thompson , Evangelos Vlachos

In massive MIMO systems, hybrid beamforming is an essential technique for exploiting the potential array gain without using a dedicated RF chain for each antenna. In this work, we consider the data phase in a massive MIMO communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Shahar Stein Ioushua , Yonina C. Eldar

In broadband millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) systems, it is desirable to design hybrid beamformers with common analog beamformer for the entire band while employing different baseband beamformers in different frequency sub-bands. Furthermore, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-01 Ahmet M. Elbir , Kumar Vijay Mishra

The increased power consumption of high-resolution data converters at higher carrier frequencies and larger bandwidths is becoming a bottleneck for communication systems. In this paper, we consider a fully digital base station equipped with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Khurram Usman Mazher , Amine Mezghani , Robert W. Heath

We provide a comprehensive overview of mathematical models and analytical techniques for millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular systems. The two fundamental physical differences from conventional Sub-6GHz cellular systems are (i) vulnerability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jeffrey G. Andrews , Tianyang Bai , Mandar Kulkarni , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Abhishek Gupta , Robert W. Heath

We investigate the beam squint effect in uniform planar arrays (UPAs) and propose an efficient hybrid beamforming (HBF) design to mitigate the beam squint in multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Mengyuan Ma , Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Markku Juntti

In order to cope with the large path-loss exponent of mm-Wave channels, a high beamforming gain is needed. This can be achieved with small hardware complexity and high hardware power efficiency by Hybrid Digital-Analog (HDA) beamforming,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

Analog beamforming is a low-cost architecture for millimeter-wave (mmWave) mobile communications. However, it has two disadvantages for serving fast mobility users: (i) the mmWave beam in the wireless channel and the beam steered by analog…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-04 Yu Liu , Jiahui Li , Yin Sun , Shidong Zhou

Hybrid digital/analog architecture and low-resolution analog-to-digital/digital-to-analog converters (ADCs /DACs) are two low-cost implementations for large-scale millimeter wave (mmWave) systems. In this paper, we investigate the problem…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Ziyang Cheng , Linlong Wu , Bowen Wang , Julan Xie , Huiyong Li

Millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) cellular systems are a promising option for a very high data rate communication because of the large bandwidth available at mm-Wave frequencies. Due to the large path-loss exponent in the mm-Wave range of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (CF-mMIMO) systems have emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation wireless communications, offering enhanced spectral efficiency and coverage through distributed antenna arrays. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Mengzhen Liu , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Qian Liu

Beamforming is central to the processing function of all phased arrays and becomes particularly challenging with a large number of antenna element (e.g. >100,000). The ability to beamform efficiently with reasonable power requirements is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-25 A J Faulkner , K Zarb Adami , J. G. Bij de Vaate , G. W. Kant , P. Pickard

In this paper, a combination of Space Time Block Coded Spatial Modulation with Hybrid Analog-Digital Beamforming (STBC-SM-HBF) for Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications is proposed in order to take advantage of the merits of Spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Taissir Y. Elganimi , Ali A. Elghariani

This paper develops energy-efficient hybrid beamforming designs for mmWave multi-user systems where analog precoding is realized by switches and phase shifters such that radio frequency (RF) chain to transmit antenna connections can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-16 Vu Nguyen Ha , Duy H. N. Nguyen , Jean-Francois Frigon

Hybrid beamforming via large antenna arrays has shown a great potential for increasing data rate in cellular networks by delivering multiple data streams simultaneously. In this paper, several beamforming design algorithms are proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Shahram Shahsavari , S. Amir Hosseini , Chris Ng , Elza Erkip

Analog to Digital Converters (ADCs) are a major contributor to the energy consumption on the receiver side of millimeter-wave multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with large antenna arrays. Consequently, there has been significant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Farhad Shirani , Hamidreza Aghasi

Availability of abundant spectrum has enabled millimeter wave (mm-wave) as a prominent candidate solution for the next generation cellular networks. Highly directional transmissions are essential for exploitation of mm-wave bands to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Yilin Li , Jian Luo , Mario Castaneda , Richard Stirling-Gallacher , Wen Xu , Giuseppe Caire

When a quantizer input signal is the sum of the desired signal and input white noise, the quantization error is a function of total input signal. Our new equivalent model splits the quantization error into two components: a non-linear…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Arkady Molev-Shteiman , Xiao-Feng Qi , Laurence Mailaender , Narayan Prasad , Bertrand Hochwald

Hybrid beamforming (HB) has been widely studied for reducing the number of costly radio frequency (RF) chains in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. However, previous works on HB are limited to a single user equipment…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Dengkui Zhu , Boyu Li , Ping Liang