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Massive MIMO systems rely on accurate Channel State Information (CSI) feedback to enable high-gain beam-forming. However, the feedback overhead scales linearly with the number of antennas, presenting a major bottleneck. While recent deep…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Maryam Ansarifard , Mostafa Rahmani , Mohit K. Sharma , Kishor C. Joshi , George Exarchakos , Alister Burr

Reaping the benefits of multi-antenna communication systems in frequency division duplex (FDD) requires channel state information (CSI) reporting from mobile users to the base station (BS). Over the last decades, the amount of CSI to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Baptiste Chatelier , Vincent Corlay , Matthieu Crussière , Luc Le Magoarou

The problem of network multiple-input multiple-output precoding under distributed channel state information is a notoriously challenging question, for which optimal solutions with reasonable complexity remain elusive. In this context, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Italo Atzeni , David Gesbert

Cell-free system where a group of base stations (BSs) cooperatively serves users has received much attention as a promising technology for the future wireless systems. In order to maximize the cooperation gain in the cell-free systems,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Seungnyun Kim , Jun Won Choi , Byonghyo Shim

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has received widespread attention owing to the superiority of changing the wireless propagation environment intelligently. Channel feedback is essential in frequency division duplex (FDD)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Decai Shen , Linglong Dai

This correspondence paper investigates joint design of small base station (SBS) clustering, multicast beamforming for access and backhaul links, as well as frequency allocation in backhaul transmission to minimize the total power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Jun Xu , Pengcheng Zhu , Jiamin Li , Xiaohu You

Lossy transmission over a relay channel in which the relay has access to correlated side information is considered. First, a joint source-channel decode-and-forward scheme is proposed for general discrete memoryless sources and channels.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Deniz Gunduz , Elza Erkip , Andrea J. Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

This work studies the net sum-rate performance of a distributed reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)-assisted multi-user multiple-input-single-output (MISO) downlink communication system under imperfect instantaneous-channel state…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Bayan Al-Nahhas , Qurrat-UI-Ain Nadeem , Aryan Kaushik , Anas Chaaban

The use of a large excess of service antennas brings a variety of performance benefits to distributed MIMO C-RAN, but the corresponding high fronthaul data loads can be problematic in practical systems with limited fronthaul capacity. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Fred Wiffen , Woon Hau Chin , Angela Doufexi

This paper considers a joint transmission scheme (JT) developed for cloud radio access networks (C-RANs). This proposed scheme features cooperative sets of remote radio heads (RRH) defined in a disk around each user location. The nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Charles Wiame , Luc Vandendorpe , Claude Oestges

Downlink beamforming techniques with low signaling overhead are proposed for joint processing coordinated (JP) multi-point transmission. The objective is to maximize the weighted sum rate within joint transmission clusters. As the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Jarkko Kaleva , Antti Tölli , Markku Juntti , Randall Berry , Michael Honig

Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is considered as one of the most promising candidate for Fifth Generation (5G) wireless communication system. However, C-RAN imposes stringent requirements on fronthaul in terms of capacity which in turn…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-19 Sandip Das , Marco Ruffini

This paper investigates the resource allocation problem combined with fronthaul precoding and access link sparse precoding design in cloud radio access network (C-RAN) wireless fronthaul systems.Multiple remote antenna units (RAUs) in C-RAN…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Peng Jiang , Jiafei Fu , Pengcheng Zhu , Jiamin Li , Xiaohu You

Wireless network scheduling and control techniques (e.g., opportunistic scheduling) rely heavily on access to Channel State Information (CSI). However, obtaining this information is costly in terms of bandwidth, time, and power, and could…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Yin Sun , C. Emre Koksal , Sung-Ju Lee , Ness B. Shroff

This paper investigates the uplink achievable rates of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna systems in Ricean fading channels, using maximal-ratio combining (MRC) and zero-forcing (ZF) receivers, assuming perfect and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Qi Zhang , Shi Jin , Kai-Kit Wong , Hongbo Zhu , Michail Matthaiou

This paper studies an uplink multicell joint processing model in which the base-stations are connected to a centralized processing server via rate-limited digital backhaul links. Unlike previous studies where the centralized processor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-28 Lei Zhou , Wei Yu

Channel state information (CSI) prediction is a promising strategy for ensuring reliable and efficient operation of massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems by providing timely downlink (DL) CSI. While deep learning-based…

Multicell joint processing can mitigate inter-cell interference and thereby increase the spectral efficiency of cellular systems. Most previous work has assumed phase-aligned (coherent) transmissions from different base transceiver stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mingguang Xu , Dongning Guo , Michael L. Honig

This paper proposes a unified semi-blind detection framework for sourced and unsourced random access (RA), which enables next-generation ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) with massive devices. Specifically, the active…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Malong Ke , Zhen Gao , Mingyu Zhou , Dezhi Zheng , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , H. Vincent Poor

The baseband-up centralization architecture of radio access networks (C-RAN) has recently been proposed to support efficient cooperative communications and reduce deployment and operational costs. However, the massive fronthaul bandwidth…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-28 Jingchu Liu , Sheng Zhou , Jie Gong , Zhisheng Niu , Shugong Xu