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To enable user diversity and multiplexing gains, a fully digital precoding multiple input multiple output (MIMO) architecture is typically applied. However, a large number of radio frequency (RF) chains make the system unrealistic to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-02 Tongyang Xu , Christos Masouros , Izzat Darwazeh

In future practical deployments of massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems, the number of radio frequency (RF) chains at the base stations (BSs) may be much smaller than the number of BS antennas to reduce the overall expenditure.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Jun Zhu , Wei Xu , Ning Wang

A novel dynamic hybrid beamforming architecture is proposed to achieve the spatial multiplexing-power consumption tradeoff for near-field multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks, where each radio frequency (RF) chain is connected to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zheng Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhaolin Wang , Jian Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek

Hybrid precoding is a promising technique for mmWave massive MIMO systems, as it can considerably reduce the number of required radio-frequency (RF) chains without obvious performance loss. However, most of the existing hybrid precoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Xinyu Gao , Linglong Dai , Ying Sun , Shuangfeng Han , I Chih-Lin

This paper studies energy-efficient hybrid beamforming architectures and its algorithm design in millimeter-wave communication systems, aiming to address the challenges faced by existing hybrid beamforming due to low hardware flexibility…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Hongpu Zhang , Yulu Guo , Liuxun Xue , Xingchen Liu , Shu Sun , Ruifeng Gao , Xianghao Yu , Meixia Tao

In this paper, we consider a generalized sub-array-connected (GSAC) architecture for arbitrary radio frequency (RF) chain and antenna configurations, where the number of RF chains connected to a sub-array and the number of antennas in each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Yun Chen , Da Chen , Tao Jiang , Lajos Hanzo

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relaying is a promising technological paradigm which can offer high spectral efficiency and substantially improved coverage. Yet, these configurations face some formidable challenges in terms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Milad Fozooni , Michail Matthaiou , Shi Jin , George C. Alexandropoulos

Using multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has attracted considerable attention in recent years. While most existing works focus on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Po-Chun Kang , Ming-Chun Lee , Tzu-Chien Chiu , Ting-Yao Kuo , Ta-Sung Lee

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications have been considered as a key technology for next generation cellular systems and Wi-Fi networks because of its advances in providing orders-of-magnitude wider bandwidth than current wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Zihuan Wang , Ming Li , Qian Liu , A. Lee Swindlehurst

The conventional digital beamforming technique needs one radio frequency (RF) chain per antenna element. High power consumption, significantly high cost of RF chain components per antenna and complex signal processing task at base band…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Om Nath Acharya , Ram Kaji Budhathoki , Santosh Shaha

Hybrid analog/digital precoding in millimeter-wave (mmWave) multi-input multi-ouput (MIMO) systems is capable of achieving the near-optimal full-digital performance at reduced hardware cost and power consumption compared to its full-RF…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Chenghao Feng , Wenqian Shen , Xinyu Gao , Jianping An , Lajos Hanzo

Given the high throughput requirement for 5G, merging millimeter wave technologies and multi-user MIMO seems a very promising strategy. As hardware limitations impede to realize a full digital architecture, hybrid MIMO architectures, using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Steve Blandino , Claude Desset , Cheng-Ming Chen , Andre Bourdoux , Sofie Pollin

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

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) avails of simple transceiver design which can tackle many drawbacks of relay systems in terms of complicated signal processing, latency, and noise amplification. However, the cost and circuit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Milad Fozooni , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou , Shi Jin , George C. Alexandropoulos

In this paper, we propose a two-stage analog combining architecture for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications with hybrid analog/digital beamforming and low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). We first derive a two-stage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Jinseok Choi , Gilwon Lee , Brian L. Evans

Conventional hybrid analog-digital architectures for millimeter-wave massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems suffer from poor scalability and high implementational costs. The former is caused by the high power loss in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Ali Bereyhi , Vahid Jamali , Ralf R. Müller , Georg Fischer , Robert Schober , Antonia M. Tulino

Antenna arrays will be an important ingredient in millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular systems. A natural application of antenna arrays is simultaneous transmission to multiple users. Unfortunately, the hardware constraints in mmWave systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Geert Leus , Robert W. Heath

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication operated in frequency bands between 30 and 300 GHz has attracted extensive attention due to the potential ability of offering orders of magnitude greater bandwidths combined with further gains via…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Shiwen He , Chenhao Qi , Yongpen Wu , Yongming Huang

In millimeter-wave (mmWave) MIMO systems, while a hybrid digital/analog precoding structure offers the potential to increase the achievable rate, it also faces the challenge of the need of a low-complexity design. In specific, the hybrid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Zhenyu Xiao , Pengfei Xia , Xiang-Gen Xia

In this paper, we develop a low-complexity channel estimation for hybrid millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, where the number of radio frequency (RF) chains is much less than the number of antennas equipped at each transceiver. The proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Lou Zhao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan