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In ambient re-scatter communications, devices convey information by modulating and re-scattering the radio frequency signals impinging on their antennas. In this correspondence, we consider a system consisting of a legacy modulated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Ruifeng Duan , Riku Jäntti , Hüseyin Yiğitler , Kalle Ruttik

Communication systems aided by movable antennas have been the subject of recent research due to their potentially increased spatial degrees of freedom offered by optimizing the antenna positioning at the transmitter and/or receiver. In this…

Future Internet-of-Things networks are envisioned to use small and cheap sensor nodes with extremely low power consumption to avoid the extensive use of batteries. To provide connectivity to a massive number of these nodes, backscatter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Ahmet Kaplan , Diana P. M. Osorio , Erik G. Larsson

The emerging pinching antenna (PA) technology enables flexible antenna positioning for creating line-of-sight (LoS) links, thus offering substantial potential to facilitate ambient signal-based backscatter communication (BSC). This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Yulei Wang , Yalin Liu , Yaru Fu , Yuanwei Liu

We consider channel estimation for high-speed railway communication systems, where both the transmitter and the receiver are equipped with large-scale antenna arrays. It is known that the throughput of conventional training schemes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-25 Tao Li , Xiaodong Wang , Pingyi Fan , Taneli Riihonen

To decrease the training overhead and improve the channel estimation accuracy in uplink cloud radio access networks (C-RANs), a superimposed-segment training design is proposed. The core idea of the proposal is that each mobile station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Xinqian Xie , Mugen Peng , H. Vincent Poor

For frequency division duplex channels, a simple pilot loop-back procedure has been proposed that allows the estimation of the UL & DL channels at an antenna array without relying on any digital signal processing at the terminal side. For…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Stefan Wesemann , Thomas L. Marzetta

This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of the deterministic and stochastic Cram\'er-Rao Bounds (CRB) for semi-blind channel estimation in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We derive and analyze mathematically…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Xue Zhang , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper investigates a movable antenna (MA)-assisted multiuser integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where the base station (BS) and communication users are all equipped with MA for improving both the sensing and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Haoran Qin , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Ziheng Zhang , Zhendong Li , Nan Cheng

Ambient backscatter communication is a newly emerged paradigm, which utilizes the ambient radio frequency (RF) signal as the carrier to reduce the system battery requirement, and is regarded as a promising solution for enabling large scale…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-11 Qin Tao , Caijun Zhong , Hai Lin , Zhaoyang Zhang

Backscatter communications (BC) has emerged as a promising technology for providing low-powered transmissions in nextG (i.e., beyond 5G) wireless networks. The fundamental idea of BC is the possibility of communications among wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Wali Ullah Khan , Muhammad Ali Jamshed , Asad Mahmood , Eva Lagunas , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

Recently, cellular Ambient Backscattering has been proposed for cellular networks. Up to now an Ambient backscatter device, called zero-energy device or tag, broadcasted its message by backscattering ambient downlink waves from the closest…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Ahmed ElSanhoury , Islam Galal , Khaled AlKady , Aml ElKhodary , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Ayman M. Hassan

Future wireless networks are expected to connect large-scale low-powered communication devices using the available spectrum resources. Backscatter communications (BC) is an emerging technology towards battery-free transmission in future…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-03 Wali Ullah Khan , Eva Lagunas , Asad Mahmood , Zain Ali , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Octavia A. Dobre

This letter revisits the channel estimation problem for MIMO systems with one-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) through a novel algorithm--Amplitude Retrieval (AR). Unlike the state-of-the-art methods such as those based on one-bit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Cheng Qian , Xiao Fu , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos

We study downlink (DL) channel estimation in a multi-cell Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system operating in a time-division duplex. The users must know their effective channel gains to decode their received DL data signals.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Amin Ghazanfari , Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

In ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) systems, passive tags connect to a reader by reflecting an ambient radio frequency (RF) signal. However, the reader may not know the channel states and RF source parameters. The traditional energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-13 S. Zargari , C. Tellambura , A. Maaref

Backscatter communication (BC) has emerged as a key technology to satisfy the increasing need for low-cost and green Internet-of-Things (IoT) connectivity, especially in large-scale deployments. Unlike the monostatic BC (MoBC), the bistatic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-26 Ahmet Kaplan , Diana P. M. Osorio , Erik G. Larsson

Massive MIMO communication systems, by virtue of utilizing very large number of antennas, have a potential to yield higher spectral and energy efficiency in comparison with the conventional MIMO systems. In this paper, we consider uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Alam Zaib , Mudassir Masood , Anum Ali , Weiyu Xu , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Ambient backscatter communication is an emerging and promising low-energy technology for the Internet of Things. In such a system, a tag sends a binary message to a reader by backscattering a radio frequency signal generated by an ambient…

Multiple antenna arrays play a key role in wireless networks for communications but also localization and sensing. The use of large antenna arrays pushes towards a propagation regime in which the wavefront is no longer plane but spherical.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-06 Andrea De Jesus Torres , Antonio Alberto D'Amico , Luca Sanguinetti , Moe Z. Win