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The fluid antenna system (FAS) is a disruptive tech-nology for future wireless communication networks. This paper considers the joint optimization of beamforming matrices and antenna positions for weighted sum rate (WSR) maximization in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Tianyi Liao , Wei Guo , Hengtao He , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

The important problem of weighted sum rate maximization (WSRM) in a multicellular environment is intrinsically sensitive to channel estimation errors. In this paper, we study ways to maximize the weighted sum rate in a linearly precoded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-21 Muhammad Fainan Hanif , Le-Nam Tran , Antti Tölli , Markku Juntti , Savo Glisic

In massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, hybrid analog-digital (AD) beamforming can be used to attain a high directional gain without requiring a dedicated radio frequency (RF) chain for each antenna element, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 S. Shi , Y. Cai , Q. Hu , B. Champagne , L. Hanzo

In this paper, we investigate the downlink multiple-input-multipleoutput (MIMO) broadcast channels in which a base transceiver station (BTS) broadcasts multiple data streams to K MIMO mobile stations (MSs) simultaneously. In order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-06 Tung T. Vu , Ha Hoang Kha , Trung Q. Duong , Nguyen-Son Vo

Existing beamforming-based full-duplex solutions for multi-antenna wireless systems often rely on explicit estimation of the self-interference channel. The pilot overhead of such estimation, however, can be prohibitively high in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Samuel Li , Ian P. Roberts

This paper considers distributed linear beamforming in downlink multicell multiuser orthogonal frequency-division multiple access networks. A fast convergent solution maximizing the weighted sum- rate with per base station (BS) transmiting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Mirza Golam Kibria , Hidekazu Murata , Jun Zheng

Millimeter-wave massive multiple-input multiple-output systems employ highly directional beamforming to overcome severe path loss, and their performance critically depends on accurate beam alignment. Conventional codebook-based methods…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Weijie Jin , Jing Zhang , Hengtao He , Chao-Kai Wen , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

Precoding design for maximizing weighted sum-rate (WSR) is a fundamental problem for downlink of massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems. It is well-known that this problem is generally NP-hard due to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Xiaotong Zhao , Siyuan Lu , Qingjiang Shi , Zhi-Quan Luo

Beamforming is one of the key techniques in millimeter wave (mmWave) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communications. Designing appropriate beamforming not only improves the quality and strength of the received signal, but also can help…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-14 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy

Channel estimation and beamforming play critical roles in frequency-division duplexing (FDD) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. However, these two modules have been treated as two stand-alone components, which makes it…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-04 Yifan Ma , Yifei Shen , Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Downlink beamforming is a key technology for cellular networks. However, computing the transmit beamformer that maximizes the weighted sum rate subject to a power constraint is an NP-hard problem. As a result, iterative algorithms that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Lissy Pellaco , Mats Bengtsson , Joakim Jaldén

This paper investigates new efficient transmission architectures for multi-satellite massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). We study the weighted sum-rate maximization problem in a multi-satellite system where multiple satellites…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Wenjing Cao , Yafei Wang , Jinshuo Zhang , Xiaofan Xu , Wenjin Wang , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

We reconsider the problem of joint power control and beamforming design to maximize the weighted sum rate in large and potentially cell-free massive MIMO networks. In contrast to the available short-term methods, where an iterative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Lorenzo Miretti , Emil Björnson , Sławomir Stańczak

We consider the problem of jointly optimizing ADC bit resolution and analog beamforming over a frequency-selective massive MIMO uplink. We build upon a popular model to incorporate the impact of low bit resolution ADCs, that hitherto has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-28 Narayan Prasad , Xiao-Feng Qi , Alan Gatherer

Large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is an emerging wireless technology that deploys thousands of transmit antennas at the base-station to boost spectral efficiency. The classic weighted minimum mean-square-error (WMMSE)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yi Feng , Kaiming Shen

Holographic multiple-input multiple-output (HMIMO) is a potential technique for improving spectral efficiency (SE) while maintaining low hardware cost and power consumption. Although conventional alternating optimization (AO) methods are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Shiyong Chen , Shengqian Han

In massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, hybrid analog-digital beamforming is an essential technique for exploiting the potential array gain without using a dedicated radio frequency chain for each antenna. However, due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Kai Kang , Qiyu Hu , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu , Jakob Hoydis , Yonina C. Eldar

Beamforming with large-scale antenna arrays has been widely used in recent years, which is acknowledged as an important part in 5G and incoming 6G. Thus, various techniques are leveraged to improve its performance, e.g., deep learning,…

Precoding design based on weighted sum-rate (WSR) maximization is a fundamental problem in downlink multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems. While the weighted minimum mean-square error (WMMSE) algorithm is a standard…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Xi Gao , Akang Wang , Junkai Zhang , Qihong Duan , Jiang Xue

The WMMSE beamforming algorithm is a popular approach to address the NP-hard weighted sum rate (WSR) maximization beamforming problem. Although it efficiently finds a local optimum, it requires matrix inverses, eigendecompositions, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-15 Lissy Pellaco , Joakim Jaldén