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This paper addresses the estimation of fractional delay and Doppler shifts in multipath channels that cause doubly selective fading-an essential task for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems in high-mobility environments.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Yutaka Jitsumatsu , Liangchen Sun

In this work, a novel superimposed pilot scheme, named superimposed cross-pilots, is proposed for fractional parameter estimation in multi-antenna orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) receivers. Assuming a large uniform linear array (ULA)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Mauro Marchese , Pietro Savazzi

Orthogonal time frequency and space (OTFS) modulation is a promising technology that satisfies high Doppler requirements for future mobile systems. OTFS modulation encodes information symbols and pilot symbols into the two-dimensional (2D)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Noriyuki Hashimoto , Noboru Osawa , Kosuke Yamazaki , Shinsuke Ibi

In user-centric cell-free multi-antenna systems, pilot contamination degrades spectral efficiency (SE) severely. To mitigate pilot contamination, existing works jointly optimize pilot assignment and power allocation by assuming fixed pilot…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Yao Peng , Tingting Liu , Chenyang Yang

The use of existing network devices as relays has a potential to improve the overall network performance. In this work, we consider a two-hop wireless relay setting, where the channels between the source and relay nodes to the destination…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Mehdi Salehi Heydar Abad , Ozgur Ercetin , Eylem Ekici

In this work, the uplink channel estimation problem is considered for a millimeter wave (mmWave) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system. It is well known that pilot overhead and computation complexity in estimating the channel increases…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Rakesh Mundlamuri , Rajeev Gangula , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Florian Kaltenberger , Walid Saad

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

In the research of RIS-assisted communication systems, channel estimation is a problem of vital importance for further performance optimization. In order to reduce the pilot overhead to the greatest extent, blind channel estimation methods…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Dianhao Jia , Wenqian Shen , Jianping An , Byonghyo Shim

We present nonasymptotic upper and lower bounds on the maximum coding rate achievable when transmitting short packets over a Rician memoryless block-fading channel for a given requirement on the packet error probability. We focus on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Johan Östman , Giuseppe Durisi , Erik G. Ström , Mustafa C. Coşkun , Gianluigi Liva

To tackle the challenge of providing higher data rates within limited spectral resources we consider the case of multiple operators sharing a common pool of radio resources. Four algorithms are proposed to address co-primary multi-operator…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Petri Luoto , Pekka Pirinen , Mehdi Bennis , Sumudu Samarakoon , Simon Scott , Matti Latva-aho

This letter focuses on the pilot contamination problem in the uplink and downlink of cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output networks with different degrees of cooperation between access points. The optimum minimum mean square…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Alberto Alvarez Polegre , Luca Sanguinetti , Ana Garcia Armada

In URLLC the performance of short message communications highly depends on the training sequence length due to the stringent latency and reliability requirements. In this paper, we study the performance of cooperative and non-cooperative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Parisa Nouri , Hirley Alves , Richard Demo Souza , Matti Latva-aho

Terahertz (THz) wireless communication is envisioned as a promising technology, which is capable of providing ultra-high-rate transmission up to Terabit per second. However, some hardware imperfections, which are generally neglected in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-24 Tianqi Mao , Zhaocheng Wang

This paper proposes a parametric channel estimation algorithm applicable to uplink of OFDMA systems with pseudo-random subchannelization. It exploits the hopping pilots to facilitate ESPRIT to estimate the delay subspace of the multipath…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-11-05 Xiaochuan Zhao , Tao Peng , Wenbo Wang

We present a channel spectral estimator for OFDM signals containing pilot carriers, assuming a known delay spread or a bound on this parameter. The estimator is based on modeling the channel's spectrum as a band-limited function, instead of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-16 J. Selva

Pilot contamination is known to be one of the main impairments for massive MIMO multi-cell communications. Inspired by the concept of fractional frequency reuse and by recent contributions on pilot reutilization among non-adjacent cells, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Italo Atzeni , Jesús Arnau , Mérouane Debbah

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) has emerged as a highly attractive paradigm for energy-efficient communication. Full-duplex multi-tag AmBC systems provide the scalability and efficient spectrum utilization essential for next…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Saeed Abdallah , Mahmoud A. Albreem , Bassel Al Homssi , Mohamed Saad , Abdulmalik Alwarafy

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) is a modulation technique that is dedicated to the high-speed mobility scenario. However, its transmission involves a two-dimensional convolution of the symbols of interest and the multipath fading…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Yaru Shan , Fanggang Wang

In conventional joint communications and sensing (JCAS) designs for multi-carrier multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, the dual-functional waveforms are often optimized for the whole frequency band, resulting in limited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Nir Shlezinger , Khac-Hoang Ngo , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Markku Juntti

Channel state information (CSI) is crucial for massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system. As the antenna scale increases, acquiring CSI results in significantly higher system overhead. In this letter, we propose a novel channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Lianzheng Shi , Jianhua Zhang , Li Yu , Yuxiang Zhang , Zhen Zhang , Yichen Cai , Guangyi Liu