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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…

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We consider the downlink of a massive multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system in which the base station (BS) is equipped with low-resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs). In contrast to most existing results, we…

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A spectrum- and energy-efficient system is essential for millimeter wave communication systems that require large antenna arrays with power-demanding ADCs. We propose an ADC bit allocation (BA) algorithm that solves a minimum mean squared…

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Multiple-antenna systems is a key technique to serve multiple users in future wireless systems. For low energy consumption and hardware complexity we first consider transmit symbols with constant magnitude and then 1-bit digital-to-analog…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Lukas T. N. Landau , Rodrigo C. de Lamare

The use of low-resolution digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters (DACs and ADCs) significantly benefits energy efficiency (EE) at the cost of high quantization noise in implementing massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)…

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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

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

In this contribution, we investigate a coarsely quantized Multi-User (MU)-Multiple Input Single Output (MISO) downlink communication system, where we assume 1-Bit Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs) at the Base Station (BS) antennas. First,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Oliver De Candido , Hela Jedda , Amine Mezghani , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Josef A. Nossek

Low-resolution digital-to-analog converter (DAC) has shown great potential in facilitating cost- and power-efficient implementation of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We investigate the performance of a massive MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Fengkui Gong , Hua Zhang , Xiaohu You

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

Low resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) can be employed to improve the energy efficiency (EE) of a wireless receiver since the power consumption of each ADC is exponentially related to its sampling resolution and the hardware…

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This work investigates the downlink performance of a multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system that employs one-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs) in the receiving and…

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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

The power consumption of digital-to-analog converters (DACs) constitutes a significant proportion of the total power consumption in a massive multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) base station (BS). Using 1-bit DACs can…

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We investigate full-duplex (FD) multi-user multiple input single-output systems with coarse quantization, aiming to characterize the impact of employing low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) on self-interference (SI) and to…

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Millimeter wave (mmWave) systems operating over a wide bandwidth and using a large number of antennas impose a heavy burden on power consumption. In a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) uplink, analog-to-digital con- verters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Jinseok Choi , Brian L. Evans , Alan Gatherer

1-bit digital-to-analog (DACs) and analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are gaining more interest in massive MIMO systems for economical and computational efficiency. We present a new precoding technique to mitigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Hela Jedda , Josef A. Nossek , Amine Mezghani

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

The use of low resolution Analog to Digital Converters (ADCs) can significantly reduce the power consumption for massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems. The existing literature on quantized massive MIMO systems deals with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Jawad Munir , Daniel Plabst , Josef A. Nossek

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…

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