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This paper presents an in-band Full Duplex (FD) integrated sensing and communications system comprising a holographic Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) base station, which is capable to simultaneously communicate with multiple users in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Ioannis Gavras , Md Atiqul Islam , Besma Smida , George C. Alexandropoulos

Massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) transmission is a promising technology to improve the capacity and reliability of wireless systems. However, the number of antennas that can be equipped at a base station (BS) is limited by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Abla Kammoun , Mérouane Debbah , and Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The key obstacle to achieving the full potential of the millimeter wave (mmWave) band has been the poor propagation characteristics of wireless signals in this band. One approach to overcome this issue is to use antennas that can support…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-25 Mojtaba Ahmadi Almasi , Hani Mehrpouyan , Vida Vakilian , Nader Behdad , Hamid Jafarkhani

The novel concept of near-field non-orthogonal multiple access (NF-NOMA) communications is proposed. The near-filed beamfocusing enables NOMA to be carried out in both angular and distance domains. Two novel frameworks are proposed, namely,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Jiakuo Zuo , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

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

Accurate beam alignment is a critical challenge in XL-MIMO systems, especially in the near-field regime, where conventional far-field assumptions no longer hold. Although 2D grid-based codebooks in the polar domain are widely accepted for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 Hongjun Heo , Wan Choi

This letter considers a legacy massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network, in which spatial beams have been preconfigured for near-field users, and proposes to use the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) principle to serve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques have been recently advanced to tremendously improve the performance of wireless communication networks. However, the use of very large antenna arrays at the base stations (BSs) brings…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-27 Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang , Zhi Ning Chen

In future 6G communication systems, large-scale antenna arrays promise enhanced signal strength and spatial resolution, but they also increase the complexity of beam training. Moreover, as antenna counts grow and carrier wavelengths shrink,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Ran Li , Ziyi Xu , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

This paper explores the potential of near-field beamforming (NFBF) in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems with extremely large-scale arrays (XL-arrays). The large-scale antenna arrays increase the possibility of having…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Kaiqian Qu , Shuaishuai Guo , Nasir Saeed

Switch-based hybrid network is a promising implementation for beamforming in large-scale millimetre wave (mmWave) antenna arrays. By fully exploiting the sparse nature of the mmWave channel, such hybrid beamforming reduces complexity and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-02 Hamed Nosrati , Elias Aboutanios , Xiangrong Wang , David Smith

Beam alignment is required in millimeter wave communication to ensure high data rate transmission. However, with narrow beamwidth in massive MIMO, beam alignment could be computationally intensive due to the large number of beam pairs to be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-05 Orikumhi Igbafe , Jeongwan Kang , Henk Wymeersch , Sunwoo Kim

There is considerable interest in the combined use of millimeter-wave (mmwave) frequencies and arrays of massive numbers of antennas (massive MIMO) for next-generation wireless communications systems. A symbiotic relationship exists between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Amine Mezghani , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in the near-field regime offers the potential to jointly support high-rate downlink transmission and high-resolution multi-target detection by exploiting the spherical-wave nature of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Hang Ruan , Homa Nikbakht , Ruizhi Zhang , Honglei Chen , Yonina C. Eldar

In this paper, beam training and beam tracking are investigated for extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output communication systems with partially-connected hybrid combining structures. Firstly, we propose a two-stage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Kangjian Chen , Chenhao Qi , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Geoffrey Ye Li

In this paper, we present a simultaneous target tracking and multi-user communications system realized by a full duplex holographic Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) node equipped with Dynamic Metasurface Antennas (DMAs) at both its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Ioannis Gavras , George C. Alexandropoulos

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-out (MIMO) systems relying on lens antenna arrays are capable of achieving a high antenna-gain at a considerably reduced number of radio frequency (RF) chains via beam selection. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Wenqian Shen , Xiangyuan Bu , Xinyu Gao , Chengwen Xing , Lajos Hanzo

This work proposes a novel joint design for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output wiretap channels. The base station exploits a switching network to connect a subset of its antennas to the available radio frequency chains. The switching…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Ruizhe Long , Jianchi Zhu , Chongjun Ouyang , Peng Chen

Fluid antenna systems encompass a broad class of reconfigurable antenna technologies that offer substantial spatial diversity for various optimization objectives and communication tasks. Their capability to enhance spatial resolution within…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jingyuan Xu , Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , Hao Jiang , Zaichen Zhang

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) has been a critical enabling technology in 5th generation (5G) wireless networks. With the advent of 6G, a natural evolution is to employ even more antennas, potentially an order of magnitude…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-13 Wentao Yu , Yifan Ma , Hengtao He , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief
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