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Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) play a critical role in digital signal acquisition across various applications, but their performance is inherently constrained by sampling rates and bit budgets. This bit budget imposes a trade-off…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Vaclav Pavlicek , Ayush Bhandari

In this paper, we investigate the capacity of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems corrupted by complex-valued additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) when both the transmitter and the receiver employ 1-bit digital-to-analog…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Armin Bazrafkan , Nikola Zlatanov

In future high-capacity wireless systems based on mmWave or massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO), the power consumption of receiver Analog to Digital Converters (ADC) is a concern. Although hybrid or analog systems with fewer ADCs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Waqas bin Abbas , Felipe Gomez-Cuba , Michele Zorzi

This paper analyzes the performance of multicell massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems with variable-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). In such an architecture, each ADC uses arbitrary quantization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Youzhi Xiong , Sanshan Sun , Ning Wei , Li Liu , Zhongpei Zhang

The capacity of a discrete-time multi-input multi-output (MIMO) Gaussian channel with output quantization is investigated for different receiver architectures. A general formulation of this problem is proposed in which the antenna outputs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Stefano Rini , Luca Barletta , Yonina C. Eldar , Elza Erkip

Use of low resolution analog to digital converters (ADCs) is an effective way to reduce the high power consumption of millimeter wave (mmWave) receivers. In this paper, a receiver with low resolution ADCs based on adaptive thresholds is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Abbas Khalili , Shahram Shahsavari , Farhad Shirani , Elza Erkip , Yonina C. Eldar

Massive MIMO systems are moving toward increased numbers of radio frequency chains, higher carrier frequencies and larger bandwidths. As such, digital-to-analog converters (DACs) are becoming a bottleneck in terms of hardware complexity and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-16 Thomas Feys , Liesbet Van der Perre , François Rottenberg

Today's communication systems typically use high resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). However, considering future communication systems with data rates in the order of 100Gbit/s the ADC power consumption becomes a major factor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Gerhard Fettweis , Meik Dörpinghaus , Sandra Bender , Lukas Landau , Peter Neuhaus , Martin Schlüter

Employing low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) for millimeter wave receivers with large antenna arrays provides opportunity to efficiently reduce power consumption of the receiver. Reducing ADC resolution, however, results in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Jinseok Choi , Gilwon Lee , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Alan Gatherer , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Brian L. Evans

Nowadays, millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems is a favorable candidate for the fifth generation (5G) cellular systems. However, a key challenge is the high power consumption imposed by its numerous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Jiayi Zhang , Lnglong Dai , Xu Li , Ying Liu , Lajos Hanzo

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

We consider general multi-antenna fading channels with coarsely quantized outputs, where the channel is unknown to the transmitter and receiver. This analysis is of interest in the context of sensor network communication where low power and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-28 Amine Mezghani , Josef A. Nossek

Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) facilitate the conversion of analog signals into a digital format. While the specific designs and settings of ADCs can vary depending on their applications, it is crucial in many modern applications to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Satish Mulleti , Timur Zirtiloglu , Arman Tan , Rabia Tugce Yazicigil , Yonina C. Eldar

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

Quantizers play a critical role in digital signal processing systems. Recent works have shown that the performance of quantization systems acquiring multiple analog signals using scalar analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Nir Shlezinger , Yonina C. Eldar

Spatial filtering based on multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) processing is a powerful method for jammer mitigation. In principle, a MIMO receiver can null the interference of a single-antenna jammer at the cost of only one degree of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Gian Marti , Alexander Stutz-Tirri , Christoph Studer

The low-resolution analog-to-digital convertor (ADC) is a promising solution to significantly reduce the power consumption of radio frequency circuits in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In this letter, we investigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Jiayi Zhang , Linglong Dai , Shengyang Sun , Zhaocheng Wang

Quantizers take part in nearly every digital signal processing system which operates on physical signals. They are commonly designed to accurately represent the underlying signal, regardless of the specific task to be performed on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Nir Shlezinger , Yonina C. Eldar , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

In the uplink of a cell-free massive MIMO system, quantization affects performance in two key domains: the time-domain distortion introduced by finite-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) at the access points (APs), and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

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