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In this paper, we study the channel estimation problem in correlated massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems with a reduced number of radio-frequency (RF) chains. Importantly, other than the knowledge of channel correlation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Javad Mirzaei , Shahram ShahbazPanahi , Foad Sohrabi , Raviraj Adve

Future wireless communications will rely on multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) beamforming operating at millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency bands to deliver high data rates. To support flexible spatial processing and meet the demands of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Faruk Pasic , Mariam Mussbah , Stefan Schwarz , Markus Rupp , Fredrik Tufvesson , Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker

We investigate hybrid beamforming design for covert millimeter wave multiple-input multiple-output systems with finite-resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs), which impose practical hardware constraints not yet considered by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Wei Ci , Chenhao Qi , Xiaohu You

This paper proposes an asymptotically optimal hybrid beamforming solution for large antenna arrays by exploiting the properties of the singular vectors of the channel matrix. It is shown that the elements of the channel matrix with Rayleigh…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Sohail Payami , Mir Ghoraishi , Mehrdad Dianati

This paper investigated the uplink of multi-user massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems with a mixed analog-to-digital converter (ADC) receiver architecture, in which some antennas are equipped with costly full-resolution ADCs and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Weiqiang Tan , Shi Jin , Chaokai Wen , Yindi Jing

Low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) have emerged as an efficient solution for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems to reap high data rates with reasonable power consumption and hardware complexity. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-12 Mengyuan Ma , Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Italo Atzeni , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Markku Juntti

The uplink where both the transmitter and receiver can use a large antenna array is considered. This is proposed as a method of antenna offloading and connecting small cell access points (SCAP) in a Two-Tier cellular network. Due to having…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Namal Rajatheva , Elvino Sousa

Cell-Free Massive Multiple-input Multiple-output (mMIMO) consists of many access points (APs) in a coverage area that jointly serve the users. These systems can significantly reduce the interference among the users compared to conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Abbas Khalili , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

This paper designs hybrid analog-digital channel estimation and beamforming techniques for multiuser massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems with limited number of radio frequency (RF) chains. For these systems, first we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Tadilo Endeshaw Bogale , Long Bao , Xianbin Wang

Hybrid beamforming has been widely employed in mmWave communications such as vehicular-to-everything (V2X) scenarios, as a compromise between hardware complexity and spectral efficiency. However, the inherent coupling between analog and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Jiazhe Li , Nicolò Decarli , Francesco Guidi , Heng Dong , Anna Guerra , Alessandro Bazzi , Zhuoming Li

This paper studies analog beamforming in active sensing applications, such as millimeter-wave radar or ultrasound imaging. Analog beamforming architectures employ a single RF-IF chain connected to all array elements via inexpensive phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-24 Robin Rajamäki , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Visa Koivunen

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is expected to play a central role in future wireless systems. The deployment of large antenna arrays at the base station and the mobile users offers multiplexing and beamforming gains that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Young-Han Nam , Jianzhong Zhang , Robert W. Heath

In this paper, we consider hybrid beamforming designs for multiuser massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. Aiming at maximizing the weighted spectral efficiency, we propose…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Jingbo Du , Wei Xu , Chunming Zhao , Luc Vandendorpe

For 5G it will be important to leverage the available millimeter wave spectrum. To achieve an approximately omni- directional coverage with a similar effective antenna aperture compared to state of the art cellular systems, an antenna array…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Kilian Roth , Josef A. Nossek

Hybrid digital analog (HDA) beamforming has attracted considerable attention in practical implementation of millimeter wave (mmWave) multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems due to the low power consumption with respect to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Xiaoshen Song , Thomas Kühne , Giuseppe Caire

Despite its promising performance gain, the realization of mmWave massive MIMO still faces several practical challenges. In particular, implementing massive MIMO in the digital domain requires hundreds of RF chains matching the number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Guangxu Zhu , Kaibin Huang , Vincent K. N. Lau , Bin Xia , Xiaofan Li , Sha Zhang

This paper investigates the design of analog beamforming at the receiver in millimeter-wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, aided by full digital chains featuring 1-bit ADCs. We advocate utilizing these full digital…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Lina Liu , Weimin Xiao , Jialing Liu , Zhigang Rong

This paper investigates the performance of optimal single stream beamforming schemes in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) dual-hop amplify-and-forward (AF) systems. Assuming channel state information is not available at the source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Caijun Zhong , Tharm Ratnarajah , Shi Jin , Kai Kit Wong

In this paper, two novel hybrid beamforming methods are proposed to reduce the cost and power consumption of hybrid beamformers with subconnected phase shifter network structure in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Sohail Payami , Mir Ghoraishi , Mehrdad Dianati , Mathini Sellathurai

Hybrid beamforming is considered a key enabler to realize millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications due to its capability of considerably reducing the number of costly and power-hungry radio frequency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-25 Mengyuan Ma , Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Markku Juntti