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The use of a very large number of antennas at each base station site (referred to as "Massive MIMO") is one of the most promising approaches to cope with the predicted wireless data traffic explosion. In combination with Time Division…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Dilip Bethanabhotla , Ozgun Bursalioglu , Haralabos Papadopoulos , Giuseppe Caire

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a fundamental enabler to provide high data throughput in next generation cellular networks. By equipping the base stations (BSs) with tens or hundreds of antenna elements, narrow and high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Paolo Baracca , Andreas Weber , Thorsten Wild , Christophe Grangeat

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems are capable of improving spectral efficiency by employing far more antennas than conventional massive MIMO at the base station (BS). However, beam training in multiuser…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Wang Liu , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Jiangzhou Wang , Robert Schober , Lajos Hanzo

This paper investigates a six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA)-aided cell-free multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system. In this system, each distributed access point (AP) can flexibly adjust its array…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Yichi Zhang , Yuchen Zhang , Wenyan Ma , Lipeng Zhu , Jianquan Wang , Wanbin Tang , Rui Zhang

Near-field spherical wavefronts enable spotlight-like beam focusing to mitigate unintended energy leakage, creating new opportunities for physical-layer security (PLS). However, under hybrid analog-digital (HAD) antenna architectures,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jiasi Zhou , Huiyun Xia , Chuan Wu , Chintha Tellambura

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication with large array gains is a key ingredient of next generation (5G) wireless networks. Effective communication in mmWaves usually depends on the knowledge of the channel. We refer to the problem of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Xiaoshen Song , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

The recently emerged movable antenna (MA) and fluid antenna technologies offer promising solutions to enhance the spatial degrees of freedom in wireless systems by dynamically adjusting the positions of transmit or receive antennas within…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Yikun Wang , Yang Li , Zeyi Ren , Jingreng Lei , Yik-Chung Wu , Rui Zhang

Future wireless networks are expected to support increasingly high data rates and user densities, motivating advanced multi-antenna architectures capable of adapting to dynamic propagation environments. Movable antenna (MA) arrays have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Amna Irshad , Emil Björnson , Alva Kosasih , Vitaly Petrov

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a key technology for emerging next-generation wireless systems. Utilizing large antenna arrays at base-stations, massive MIMO enables substantial spatial multiplexing gains by simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-13 Ly V. Nguyen , Nhan T. Nguyen , Nghi H. Tran , Markku Juntti , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Duy H. N. Nguyen

In this paper, we propose a beamforming design for dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) systems at the millimeter wave (mmWave) band, where hybrid beamforming and sub-arrayed MIMO radar techniques are jointly exploited. We assume that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-25 Fan Liu , Christos Masouros

Extremely large antenna array (ELAA) is a common feature of several key candidate technologies for sixth-generation mobile networks (6G), such as ultra-massive multiple-input-multiple-output (UM-MIMO), cell-free massive MIMO, reconfigurable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Mingyao Cui , Zidong Wu , Yu Lu , Xiuhong Wei , Linglong Dai

Multi-beam antenna technologies have provided lots of promising solutions to many current challenges faced in wireless mesh networks. The antenna can establish several beamformings simultaneously and initiate concurrent transmissions or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Gang Wang , Yanyuan Qin

Caching at base stations is a promising technology to satisfy the increasing capacity requirements and reduce the backhaul loads in future wireless networks. Careful design of random caching can fully exploit the file popularity and achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Sufeng Kuang , Nan Liu

One of the trends that is gaining more and more importance in the field of beyond-5G and 6G wireless communication systems is the investigation on systems that jointly perform communication and sensing of the environment. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Marco Lops

In this paper, the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmit beampattern matching problem is considered. The problem is formulated to approximate a desired transmit beampattern (i.e., an energy distribution in space and frequency) and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Ziping Zhao , Daniel P. Palomar

Recent applications of the Full Duplex (FD) technology focus on enabling simultaneous control communication and data transmission to reduce the control information exchange overhead, which impacts end-to-end latency and spectral efficiency.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Md Atiqul Islam , George C. Alexandropoulos , Besma Smida

The main focus and contribution of this paper is a novel network-MIMO TDD architecture that achieves spectral efficiencies comparable with "Massive MIMO", with one order of magnitude fewer antennas per active user per cell. The proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Hoon Huh , Giuseppe Caire , Haralabos C. Papadopoulos , Sean A. Ramprashad

This article presents a tutorial on multiuser multiple-antenna wireless systems with a very large number of antennas, known as massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems. Signal processing challenges and future trends in the area of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-29 R. C. de Lamare

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces have emerged as a cutting-edge technology for next-generation wireless communications that are capable of reconfiguring the wireless environment using a large number of cost-effective reflecting elements.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Ahmed M. Benaya , Ali A. Nasir , Khaled M. Rabie , Daniel B. da Costa

Hybrid beamforming via large antenna arrays has shown a great potential for increasing data rate in cellular networks by delivering multiple data streams simultaneously. In this paper, several beamforming design algorithms are proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Shahram Shahsavari , S. Amir Hosseini , Chris Ng , Elza Erkip