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With the increase of multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) array size and carrier frequency, near-field MIMO communications will become crucial in 6G wireless networks. Due to the increase of MIMO near-field range, the research of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Haiyang Miao , Jianhua Zhang , Pan Tang , Heng Wang , Lei Tian , Guangyi Liu

Favorable propagation, defined as mutual orthogonality among the vector-valued channels to the terminals, is one of the key properties of the radio channel that is exploited in Massive MIMO. However, there has been little work that studies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-17 Hien Quoc Ngo , Erik G. Larsson , Thomas L. Marzetta

Approximate expressions for the spatial correlation of cylindrical and uniform rectangular arrays (URA) are derived using measured distributions of angles of departure (AOD) for both the azimuth and zenith domains. We examine massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-04 Callum T. Neil , Mansoor Shafi , Peter J. Smith , Pawel A. Dmochowski

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising approach for next-generation wireless networks, enabling scalable deployments of multiple small access points (APs) to enhance coverage and service for multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Georgios Mylonopoulos , Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi , Pei Liu

We present a unifying framework that bridges Bayesian asymptotics and information theory to analyze the asymptotic Shannon capacity of general large-scale MIMO channels including ones with nonlinearities or imperfect hardware. We derive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Sheng Yang , Richard Combes

Channel measurements show that significant spatially non-wide-sense-stationary characteristics rise in massive MIMO channels. Notable parameter variations are experienced along the base station array, such as the average received energy at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Xueru Li , Shidong Zhou , Emil Björnson , Jing Wang

In this correspondence the cumulants of the mutual information of the flat Rayleigh fading amplify-and-forward MIMO relay channel without direct link between source and destination are derived in the large array limit. The analysis is based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Joerg Wagner , Boris Rankov , Armin Wittneben

Discrete-time Rayleigh fading single-input single-output (SISO) and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels are considered, with no channel state information at the transmitter or the receiver. The fading is assumed to be stationary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vignesh Sethuraman , Ligong Wang , Bruce Hajek , Amos Lapidoth

The design of cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems requires accurate, measurement-based channel models. This paper provides the first results from the by far most extensive outdoor measurement campaign for CF-mMIMO channels in an urban…

Cell-Free (CF) Massive multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO) is a distributed antenna system, wherein a large number of back-haul linked access points randomly distributed over a coverage area serve simultaneously a smaller number of users.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Salah Eddine Hajri , Juwendo Denis , Mohamad Assaad

Multi-antenna relays and intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have been utilized to construct favorable channels to improve the performance of wireless systems. A common feature between relay systems and IRS-aided systems is the two-hop…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Zeyan Zhuang , Xin Zhang , Dongfang Xu , Shenghui Song

Massive MIMO, a key technology for increasing area spectral efficiency in cellular systems, was developed assuming moderately sized apertures. In this paper, we argue that massive MIMO systems behave differently in large-scale regimes due…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Elisabeth De Carvalho , Anum Ali , Abolfazl Amiri , Marko Angjelichinoski , Robert W. Heath

Distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), also known as cell-free massive MIMO, has emerged as a promising technology for sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. This letter introduces an indoor channel measurement campaign…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Yingjie Xu , Xuesong Cai , Sara Willhammar , Fredrik Tufvesson

In practical mobile communication engineering applications, surfaces of antenna array deployment regions are usually uneven. Therefore, massive multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) communication systems usually transmit wireless signals by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Xiaohu Ge , Ran Zi , Haichao Wang , Jing Zhang , Minho Jo

We consider large-scale fading precoding (LSFP), which is a two-layer precoding scheme in the downlink of multi-cell massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems to suppress inter-cell interference. We obtain the closed-form…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

Future wireless networks must provide ever higher data rates. The available bandwidth increases roughly linearly as we increase the carrier frequency, but the range shrinks drastically. This paper explores if we can instead reach massive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Amna Irshad , Alva Kosasih , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

Cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) enhances spectral and energy efficiency compared to conventional cellular networks by enabling joint transmission and reception across a large number of distributed access points…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

Massive MIMO has been the subject of intense interest in both academia and industry for the past few years. 3GPP standardization for cellular systems have adopted the principles of massive MIMO and categorized the use of large rectangular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Reza Monir Vaghefi , Ramesh Chembil Palat , Giovanni Marzin , Kiran Basavaraju , Yiping Feng , Mihai Banu

To provide the vast exploitation of the large number of antennas on massive multiple-input-multiple-output (M-MIMO), it is crucial to know as accurately as possible the channel state information in the base station. This knowledge is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-25 Victor Croisfelt Rodrigues , Jose Carlos Marinello , Taufik Abrao

Multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems of current LTE releases are capable of adaptation in the azimuth only. Recently, the trend is to enhance system performance by exploiting the channel's degrees of freedom in the elevation, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Abla Kammoun , Merouane Debbah , Mohamed-Slim Alouini