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Analog beamforming is the predominant approach for millimeter wave (mmWave) communication given its favorable characteristics for limited-resource devices. In this work, we aim at reducing the spectral efficiency gap between analog and…

The millimeter wave is a promising technique for the next generation of mobile communication. The large antenna array is able to provide sufficient precoding gain to overcome the high pathloss at millimeter wave band. However, the accurate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-31 Wei Zhang , Shu-Hung Leung , Taejoon Kim

Beamforming structures with fixed beam codebooks provide economical solutions for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications due to the low hardware cost. However, the training overhead to search for the optimal beamforming configuration is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Ruichen Deng , Sheng Chen , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu , Wei Zhang

Multiuser beamforming is considered for partially-connected millimeter wave massive MIMO systems. Based on perfect channel state information (CSI), a low-complexity hybrid beamforming scheme that decouples the analog beamformer and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Chenhao Qi , Jinlin Hu , Yang Du , Arumugam Nallanathan

To circumvent the high path loss of mmWave propagation and reduce the hardware cost of massive multiple-input multiple-output antenna systems, full-dimensional hybrid beamforming is critical in 5G and beyond wireless communications.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Teng Sun , Guangxu Zhu , Xiaofan Li , Jiancun Fan , Minghua Xia

Millimeter wave multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems must operate over sparse wireless links and will require large antenna arrays to provide high throughput. To achieve sufficient array gains, these systems must…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-17 Wei Zhang , Taejoon Kim , David J. Love

We consider the problem of downlink channel estimation for millimeter wave (mmWave) MIMO-OFDM systems, where both the base station (BS) and the mobile station (MS) employ large antenna arrays for directional precoding/beamforming. Hybrid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Zhou Zhou , Jun Fang , Linxiao Yang , Hongbin Li , Zhi Chen , Rick S. Blum

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

In this paper, we consider multi-quality multicast beamforming of a video stream from a multi-antenna base station (BS) to multiple single-antenna users receiving different qualities of the same video stream, via scalable video coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Chengjun Guo , Ying Cui , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Zhi Liu

This paper considers the multi-group multicast beamforming optimization problem, for which the optimal solution has been unknown due to the non-convex and NP-hard nature of the problem. By utilizing the successive convex approximation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-13 Min Dong , Qiqi Wang

Channel estimation is useful in millimeter wave (mmWave) MIMO communication systems. Channel state information allows optimized designs of precoders and combiners under different metrics such as mutual information or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Javier Rodríguez-Fernández , Nuria González-Prelcic , Kiran Venugopal , Robert W. Heath

In many wireless communication applications, it is desirable to transmit the same data to multiple user equipments (UEs). Physical layer multicasting presents an efficient transmission topology to exploit the beamforming capabilities at the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Mahmoud Zaher , Emil Björnson , Marina Petrova

We consider the problem of channel estimation and joint active and passive beamforming for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Xi Zheng , Jun Fang , Hongwei Wang , Peilan Wang , Hongbin Li

In this study, we analyze the codebook design used for analog beamforming. Analog beamforming and combining suffer from a subspace sampling limitation, that is, the receiver cannot directly observe the channel coefficients; instead, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Mehdi Ganji , Hongbing Cheng , Qi Zhan , Kee-Bong Song

Classical beamforming techniques rely on highly linear transmitters and receivers to allow phase-coherent combining at the transmitter and receiver. The transmitter uses beamforming to steer signal power towards the receiver, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Kang Gao , J. Nicholas Laneman , Bertrand Hochwald

Gbps wireless transmission over long distance at high frequency bands has great potential for 5G and beyond, as long as high beamforming gain could be delivered at affordable cost to combat the severe path loss. With limited number of RF…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Jinfeng Du , Marcin Rybakowski , Kamil Bechta , Reinaldo A. Valenzuela

Antenna arrays will be an important ingredient in millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular systems. A natural application of antenna arrays is simultaneous transmission to multiple users. Unfortunately, the hardware constraints in mmWave systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Geert Leus , Robert W. Heath

The potential of using millimeter-wave (mmWave) to encounter the current bandwidth shortage has motivated packing more antenna elements in the same physical size which permits the advent of massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Fawwaz Alsubaie

Multicast beamforming is a key technology for next-generation wireless cellular networks to support high-rate content distribution services. In this paper, the coordinated downlink multicast beamforming design in multicell networks is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-13 L. Zhou , L. Zheng , X. Wang , W. Jiang , W. Luo

Millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular systems will enable gigabit-per-second data rates thanks to the large bandwidth available at mmWave frequencies. To realize sufficient link margin, mmWave systems will employ directional beamforming with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Omar El Ayach , Geert Leus , Robert W. Heath