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Wireless communication systems face challenges in meeting the demand for higher data rates and reliable connectivity in complex environments. Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) have emerged as a promising technology for advanced…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Geng Sun , Mingzhe Fan , Lei Zhang , Hongyang Pan , Jiahui Li , Chuang Zhang , Linyao Li , Changyuan Zhao , Chau Yuen

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) offers significant advantages in spectral and energy efficiencies, positioning it as a cornerstone technology of fifth-generation (5G) wireless communication systems and a promising solution for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zhenzhou Jin , Li You , Huibin Zhou , Yuanshuo Wang , Xiaofeng Liu , Xinrui Gong , Xiqi Gao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Xiang-Gen Xia

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) has been a key technology of wireless communications for decades. A typical MIMO system employs antenna arrays with the inter-antenna spacing being half of the signal wavelength, which we term as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xinrui Li , Hongqi Min , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Linglong Dai , Yifei Yuan , Rui Zhang

High throughput satellites employing multibeam antennas and full frequency reuse for broadband satellite services are considered in this paper. Such architectures offer, for example, a cost-effective solution to optimize data delivery and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-08 Robert T. Schwarz , Thomas Delamotte , Kai-Uwe Storek , Andreas Knopp

A cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)faces several key challenges concerning connectivity and energy efficiency. Through a learning-based strategy, we propose a general novel multi-armed bandit (MAB) algorithm to reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 M. Mahdi Azari , Atefeh Hajijamali Arani , Fernando Rosas

Cell-free massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems can provide reliable connectivity and increase user throughput and spectral efficiency of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. This can only be achieved through…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-25 Mohamed Elrashidy , Mudassir Masood , Ali Arshad Nasir

Supporting reliable and seamless wireless connectivity for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has recently become a critical requirement to enable various different use cases of UAVs. Due to their widespread deployment footprint, cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-05 Sung Joon Maeng , Yavuz Yapıcı , İsmail Güvenç , Arupjyoti Bhuyan , Huaiyu Dai

A Cell-Free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system comprises a very large number of distributed access points (APs)which simultaneously serve a much smaller number of users over the same time/frequency resources based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Hien Quoc Ngo , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang , Erik G. Larsson , Thomas L. Marzetta

In this letter, we study multiuser communication systems enabled by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is equipped with a directional antenna of adjustable beamwidth. We propose a fly-hover-and-communicate protocol where the ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Haiyun He , Shuowen Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Recent advances in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication show that equipping base stations (BSs) with large arrays of antenna can significantly improve the performance of cellular networks. Massive MIMO has the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-18 Yan Huang , Brian Jalaian , Stephen Russell , Hooman Samani

The principal distinction in transitioning from far-field multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems to near-field MIMO configurations lies in the notable augmentation of spatial degrees of freedom (DoF). This increase is not…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Shuaishuai Guo , Kaiqian Qu , Shuping Dang

Channel estimation has long been deemed as one of the most critical problems in three-dimensional (3D) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), which is recognized as the leading technology that enables 3D spatial signal processing in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Lei Cheng , Qingjiang Shi

Modern day wireless networks have tremendously evolved driven by a sharp increase in user demands, continuously requesting more data and services. This puts significant strain on infrastructure based macro cellular networks due to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vishal Sharma , Mehdi Bennis , Rajesh Kumar

Massive multiple-input--multiple-output (MIMO) systems can suffer from coherent intercell interference due to the phenomenon of pilot contamination. This paper investigates a two-layer decoding method that mitigates both coherent and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Trinh Van Chien , Christopher Mollén , Emil Björnson

By using wireless connectivity through cellular base stations (BSs), swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide a plethora of services ranging from delivery of goods to surveillance. In particular, UAVs in a swarm can utilize…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-12 Tengchan Zeng , Mohammad Mozaffari , Omid Semiari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

A massive MIMO system entails a large number of base station antennas M serving a much smaller number of users. This leads to large gains in spectral and energy efficiency compared with other technologies. As the number of antennas M grows,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Ansuman Adhikary , Alexei Ashikhmin

Massive MIMO is a new technique for wireless communications that claims to offer very high system throughput and energy efficiency in multi-user scenarios. The cost is to add a very large number of antennas at the base station. Theoretical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Àlex Oliveras Martínez , Elisabeth De Carvalho , Jesper Ødum Nielsen

This paper proposes a novel joint channel estimation and beamforming approach for multicell wideband massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems. With the proposed channel estimation and beamforming approach, we determine the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Tadilo Endeshaw Bogale , Long Bao Le , Xianbin Wang , Luc Vandendorpe

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into wireless networks has opened a new horizon to meet the capacity and coverage requirements foreseen in future wireless networks. Harnessing UAVs as flying base stations (BSs) has helped…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Rabe Arshad , Lutz Lampe , Hesham ElSawy , Md. Jahangir Hossain

The main challenges in designing downlink coordinated multicast beamforming in massive multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) cellular networks are the complex computational solutions and significant fronthaul overhead for centralized…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-20 Shiqi Yin , Min Dong