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A subspace projection to improve channel estimation in massive multi-antenna systems is proposed and analyzed. Together with power-controlled hand-off, it can mitigate the pilot contamination problem without the need for coordination among…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Ralf Müller , Laura Cottatellucci , Mikko Vehkaperä

In mixed near-field and far-field systems, the nonorthogonality between near-field and far-field channels may cause severe inter-user interference and hence degrade rate performance, when the analog beamforming is designed based on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Tianyu Liu , Changsheng You , Chao Zhou , Mingjiang Wu , Ming-Min Zhao , Zhaocheng Wang

We present a novel closed-form lower bound on the Gaussian-input mutual information for noncoherent communication (i.e., in which neither transmitter nor receiver are cognizant of the fading state) over a frequency-flat fading channel with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Adriano Pastore

In this paper, we study the problem of uplink channel estimation for near-filed orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, where a base station (BS), equipped with an extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA), serves…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Jionghui Wang , Jun Fang , Hongbin Li , Boyu Ning

For an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) system over a doubly selective (DS) channel, a large number of pilot subcarriers are needed to estimate the numerous channel parameters, resulting in low spectral efficiency. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Qibo Qin , Lin Gui , Bo Gong , Xiang Ren , Wen Chen

The notion of a fast uplink grant is emerging as a promising solution for enabling massive machine type communications (MTCs) in the Internet of Things over cellular networks. By using the fast uplink grant, machine type devices (MTD) will…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Samad Ali , Nandana Rajatheva , Walid Saad

A whole suite of innovative technologies and architectures have emerged in response to the rapid growth of wireless traffic. This paper studies an integrated network design that boosts system capacity through cooperation between wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Trinh Van Chien , Eva Lagunas , Tiep M. Hoang , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Lajos Hanzo

Support massive connectivity is an important requirement in 5G wireless communication system. For massive Machine Type Communication (MTC) scenario, since the network is expected to accommodate a massive number of MTC devices with sparse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Yanlun Wu , Jun Fang

In wireless communication systems, Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) includes variants using either a cyclic prefix (CP) or a zero padding (ZP) as the guard interval to avoid inter-symbol interference. OFDM is ideally suited…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Koosha Pourtahmasi Roshandeh , Mostafa Mohammadkarimi , Masoud Ardakani

In this paper, we consider the problem of activity detection in grant-free code-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). We focus on performing activity detection via subspace methods under a setup where the data and pilot spreading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Bashar Tahir , Stefan Schwarz , Markus Rupp

Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) with offloading is considered as an effective way to meet the high data rate demand of future wireless service. However, the offloaded users suffer from strong inter-tier interference, which reduces the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Yueping Wu , Ying Cui , Bruno Clerckx

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) represents a key paradigm for future wireless networks. However, existing approaches require waveform modifications, dedicated pilots, or overhead that complicates standards integration. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Wentao Yu , Khaled B. Letaief , Lizhong Zheng

Leveraging the inherent connection between sensing systems and wireless communications can improve their overall performance and is the core objective of joint communications and sensing. For effective communications, one has to frequently…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Benedikt Böck , Franz Weißer , Michael Baur , Wolfgang Utschick

With the continuous growth of machine-type devices (MTDs), it is expected that massive machine-type communication (mMTC) will be the dominant form of traffic in future wireless networks. Applications based on this technology, have…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Joao V. C. Evangelista , Zeeshan Sattar , Georges Kaddoum , Bassant Selim , Aydin Sarraf

In this paper, we consider channel estimation problem in the uplink of filter bank multicarrier (FBMC) systems. We propose a pilot structure and a joint multiuser channel estimation method for FBMC. Opposed to the available solutions in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Hamed Hosseiny , Arman Farhang , Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny

Both faster than Nyquist (FTN) signaling and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) are promising next generation wireless communications techniques as a benefit of their capability of improving the system's spectral efficiency. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-20 Weijie Yuan , Nan Wu , Jinhong Yuan , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Lajos Hanzo

Communications in highly dynamic channels relying on training-based channel estimation experience a trade-off between increasing channel measurement accuracy by sending more frequent training sequences and increasing data rate by sending…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Duschia Bodet , Muriel Médard , Muralidhar Rangaswamy , Ken Duffy

In interference alignment, users sharing a wireless channel are each able to achieve data rates of up to half of the non-interfering channel capacity, no matter the number of users. In an ergodic setting, this is achieved by pairing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-21 Joseph C. Koo , William Wu , John Gill

This letter focuses on the pilot contamination problem in the uplink and downlink of cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output networks with different degrees of cooperation between access points. The optimum minimum mean square…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Alberto Alvarez Polegre , Luca Sanguinetti , Ana Garcia Armada

In this paper, we propose a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based communication framework that allows machine type devices (MTDs) to access the network while avoiding congestion. The proposed technique is a 2-step mechanism that first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Manal El Tanab , Walaa Hamouda