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We propose an optimal MMSE precoding technique using quantized signals with constant envelope. Unlike the existing MMSE design that relies on 1-bit resolution, the proposed approach employs uniform phase quantization and the bounding step…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Erico S. P. Lopes , Lukas T. N. Landau

Imagine a coverage area with many wireless access points that cooperate to jointly serve the users, instead of creating autonomous cells. Such a cell-free network operation can potentially resolve many of the interference issues that appear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

Cell-free Massive MIMO (mMIMO) is envisaged to be a next-generation technology beyond 5G with its high spectral efficiency and superior spatial diversity as compared to that of conventional MIMO technology. The main principle is that many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Zakir Hussain Shaik , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

In the cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) system, the centralized transmission scheme is widely adopted to manage the inter-user interference. Unfortunately, its implementation is limited by the extensive signaling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Hongkang Yu , Xinquan Ye , Yijian Chen

This work revisits a recently proposed precoding design for massive multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) systems that is based on the use of an instantaneous total power constraint. The main advantages of this technique lie in its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Houssem Sifaou , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper investigates semi-blind channel estimation for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. To this end, we first estimate a subspace based on all received symbols (pilot and payload) to provide additional information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Franz Weißer , Nurettin Turan , Dominik Semmler , Fares Ben Jazia , Wolfgang Utschick

Recent information theoretic results suggest that precoding on the multi-user downlink MIMO channel with delayed channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT) could lead to data rates much beyond the ones obtained without any CSIT,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-10 Xinping Yi , David Gesbert

Considering a heterogeneous network (HetNet) system consisting of a macro tier overlaid with a second tier of small cells (SCs), this paper studies the mean square error (MSE) based precoding design to be employed by the macro base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Yongyu Dai , Xiaodai Dong , Wu-Sheng Lu

MIMO systems are considered as most promising for wireless communications. However, with an increasing number of radio front ends the corresponding energy consumption and costs become an issue, which can be relieved by the utilization of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Erico S. P. Lopes , Lukas T. N. Landau

For downlink transmission in massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems, conventional precoding research heavily focuses on reducing the computational complexity of precoding matrix design, while largely overlooking…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Shuai Gao , Fan Xu , Mian Li , Xinzhi Ning , Lei Qiu , Ye Yang , Qingjiang Shi

Large-scale MIMO systems can yield a substantial improvement in spectral efficiency for future communication systems. Due to the finer spatial resolution achieved by a huge number of antennas at the base stations, these systems have shown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-15 Abla Kammoun , Axel Müller , Emil Björnson , Mérouane Debbah

In this paper, a downlink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF massive MIMO) system and a network clustering is considered. Closed form sum-rate expressions are derived for CF and the clustered CF (CLCF) networks where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-28 S. Mashdour , R. C. de Lamare

This letter presents a low-complexity hybrid precoding framework for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems by leveraging a low-dimensional subspace property. Under the low-dimensional subspace perspective, we first…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Mintaek Oh , Jinseok Choi

In this paper, a new multi-cell MMSE precoder is proposed for massive MIMO systems. We consider a multi-cell network where each cell has $K$ users and $B$ orthogonal pilot sequences are available, with $B = \beta K$ and $\beta \ge 1$ being…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Xueru Li , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson , Shidong Zhou , Jing Wang

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication is a promising solution for coping with the ever-increasing mobile data traffic because of its large bandwidth. To enable a sufficient link margin, a large antenna array employing directional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Reza Ghanaatian , Vahid Jamali , Andreas Burg , Robert Schober

This paper gives a replica analysis for the minimum mean square error (MSE) of a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system by using Bayesian inference. The Bayes-optimal estimator is adopted to estimate the data symbols and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Chao-Kai Wen , Yongpeng Wu , Kai-Kit Wong , Robert Schober , Pangan Ting

In this work, we develop a linear robust minimum mean-square error (RMMSE) precoder to mitigate the effects of imperfect channel state information (CSI) and the intra-cluster (ICL) and out-of-cluster (OCL) interference in cell-free (CF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 André R. Flores , Rodrigo C. de Lamare

This paper addresses joint transceiver and relay design for a wireless multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) switching scheme that enables data exchange among multiple users. Here, a multi-antenna relay linearly precodes the received…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Fanggang Wang , Xiaojun Yuan , Soung Chang Liew , Dongning Guo

Nonlinear precoding and pulse shaping are jointly considered in multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with low-resolution D/A-converters (DACs) in terms of algorithmic approach as well as large system performance.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Amine Mezghani , Robert W. Heath

We present a general framework for the characterization of the packet error probability achievable in cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) architectures deployed to support ultra-reliable low-latency (URLLC) traffic. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Alejandro Lancho , Giuseppe Durisi , Luca Sanguinetti