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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

In this paper, we consider massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems for both downlink and uplink scenarios, where three radio units (RUs) connected via one digital unit (DU) support multiple user equipments (UEs) at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yeon-Geun Lim , Chan-Byoung Chae , Giuseppe Caire

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

We consider a fully digital massive multiple-input multiple-output architecture with low-resolution analog-to-digital/digital-to-analog converters (ADCs/DACs) at the base station (BS) and analyze the performance trade-off between the number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Italo Atzeni , Antti Tölli , Giuseppe Durisi

We consider the downlink of a single-cell multi-user MIMO system in which the base station makes use of $N$ antennas to communicate with $K$ single-antenna user equipments (UEs) randomly positioned in the coverage area. In particular, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Luca Sanguinetti , Emil Bjornson , Merouane Debbah , Aris Moustakas

The power consumption of high-speed, high-resolution analog to digital converters (ADCs) is a limiting factor in implementing large-bandwidth mm-wave communication systems. A mitigating solution, which has drawn considerable recent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-10 Farhad Shirani , Hamidreza Aghasi

Massive MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) is a key enabler for 5G and future wireless systems, boosting channel capacity, energy efficiency, and spectral efficiency. However, high power consumption and hardware costs of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Jie Zhang , Huifu Xu

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

The high hardware complexity of a massive MIMO base station, which requires hundreds of radio chains, makes it challenging to build commercially. One way to reduce the hardware complexity and power consumption of the receiver is to lower…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Christopher Mollén , Junil Choi , Erik G. Larsson , Robert W. Heath

Recently, multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) systems with low-resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs) has received considerable attention, owing to the capability of dramatically reducing the hardware cost. Besides,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-16 Lei Chu , Fei Wen , Robert Caiming Qiu

This work studies a multi-cell one-bit massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system that employs one-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs) at each base station (BS). We utilize Bussgang…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Anas Chaaban

Cell-free massive MIMO has matured into a key candidate technology for 6G and beyond, owing to its ability to provide nearly uniform service quality to many user equipments (UEs) over the same time-frequency resources. Unlike conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Salih Gümüşbuğa

One of the basic aspects of Massive MIMO (MaMi) that is in the focus of current investigations is its potential of using low-cost and energy-efficient hardware. It is often claimed that MaMi will allow for using analog-to-digital converters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Muris Sarajlić , Liang Liu , Ove Edfors

Massive multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is foreseen to be one of the key technologies in fifth-generation wireless communication systems. In this paper, we investigate the problem of downlink precoding for a narrowband…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Sven Jacobsson , Giuseppe Durisi , Mikael Coldrey , Tom Goldstein , Christoph Studer

In this letter, we consider linear precoding for downlink massive multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We propose the novel successively-regularized zero forcing (SRZF) precoding, which exploits successive null…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Aravindh Krishnamoorthy , Robert Schober

We present a mathematical analysis of linear precoders for downlink massive MIMO multiuser systems that employ one-bit digital-to-analog converters at the basestation in order to reduce complexity and mitigate power usage. The analysis is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-24 Amodh Kant Saxena , Inbar Fijalkow , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are a major contributor to the power consumption of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems with large number of antennas. Use of low resolution ADCs has been proposed as a means to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Abbas Khalili , Farhad Shirani , Elza Erkip , Yonina C. Eldar

This paper studies the ergodic rate performance of regularized zero-forcing (RZF) precoding in the downlink of a multi-user multiple-input single-output (MISO) system, where the channel between the base station (BS) and each user is modeled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Abla Kammoun , Merouane Debbah , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

A promising approach to deal with the high hardware cost and energy consumption of massive MIMO transmitters is to use low-resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs) at each antenna element. This leads to a transmission scheme where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Zheyu Wu , Junjie Ma , Ya-Feng Liu , A. Lee Swindlehurst

High power consumption and expensive hardware are two bottlenecks for practical massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems. One promising solution is to employ low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Jiayi Zhang , Linglong Dai , Ziyan He , Bo Ai , Octavia A. Dobre