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In millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, antenna architecture limitations make it difficult to apply conventional fully digital precoding techniques but call for low cost analog radio-frequency (RF) and digital baseband hybrid precoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Shiwen He , Jiaheng Wang , Yongming Huang , Bjorn Ottersten , Wei Hong

Millimeter wave is a promising technology for the next generation of wireless systems. As it is well-known for its high path loss, the systems working in this spectrum tend to exploit the shorter wavelength to equip the transceivers with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Sina Shaham , Matthew Kokshoorn , Zihuai Lin , Ming Ding

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

Millimeter wave (mmWave) has been claimed to be the only viable solution for high-bandwidth vehicular communications. However, frequent channel estimation and beamforming required to provide a satisfactory quality of service limits mmWave…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-26 Sina Shaham , Ming Ding , Matthew Kokshoorn , Zihuai Lin , Shuping Dang , Rana Abbas

This article investigates the integration of movable antennas (MAs) into multicast communication systems. By discretizing the motion of the MAs, a novel MA-assisted multicast transmission architecture is formulated. An alternating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Jianchi Zhu , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang

Transmit beamforming for underwater acoustic communication is challenging because it requires perfect knowledge of the channel to the receiver in advance. In practice, channel estimates must be learned through feedback and are often noisy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Diego A. Cuji , Andrew C. Singer , Milica Stojanovic

In this paper, we investigate an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter-wave multiple-input single-output downlink wireless communication system. By jointly calculating the active beamforming at the base station and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Wencai Yan , Gangcan Sun , Wanming Hao , Zhengyu Zhu , Zheng Chu , Pei Xiao

The conventional digital beamforming technique needs one radio frequency (RF) chain per antenna element. High power consumption, significantly high cost of RF chain components per antenna and complex signal processing task at base band…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Om Nath Acharya , Ram Kaji Budhathoki , Santosh Shaha

Massive MIMO is currently a leading physical layer technology candidate that can dramatically enhance throughput in 5G systems, for both unicast and multicast transmission modalities. As antenna elements are becoming smaller and cheaper in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-05 Mohamed Salah Ibrahim , Aritra Konar , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos

In this paper, we studied the problem of beam alignment for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications, in which we assume a hybrid analog and digital beamforming structure is employed at the transmitter (i.e. base station), and an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xingjian Li , Jun Fang , Huiping Duan , Zhi Chen , Hongbin Li

Existing methods for robust multigroup multicast beamforming obtain feasible points using semidefinite relaxation (SDR) and Gaussian randomization, and have high computational complexity. In this letter, we consider the robust multigroup…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Guangda Zang , Hei Victor Cheng , Ying Cui , Wei Liu , Feng Yang , Lianghui Ding , Hui Liu

Communication at millimeter wave frequencies will be one of the essential new technologies in 5G. Acquiring an accurate channel estimate is the key to facilitate advanced millimeter wave hybrid multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Wei Zhang , Taejoon Kim , David J. Love , Erik Perrins

In order to address the asynchronous interference issue for a generalized scenario with multiple primary and multiple secondary receivers, in this paper, we propose an innovative cooperative beamforming technique. In particular, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-09 Mai H. Hassan , Md. J. Hossain

Millimeter-wave MIMO systems have gained increasing traction towards the goal of meeting the high data-rate requirements in next-generation wireless systems. The focus of this work is on low-complexity beamforming approaches for initial UE…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Vasanthan Raghavan , Juergen Cezanne , Sundar Subramanian , Ashwin Sampath , Ozge Koymen

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is considered as a key enabler of ultra-high data rates in the future cellular and wireless networks. The need for directional communication between base stations (BSs) and users in mmWave systems,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Sara Khosravi , Hossein S. Ghadikolaei , Marina Petrova

This article addresses the design of multigroup multicast communications in the pinching-antenna system (PASS). A PASS-enabled multigroup transmission framework is proposed to maximize multicast rates under a couple of transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Shan Shan , Chongjun Ouyang , Yong Li , Yuanwei Liu

In this paper, we propose a beamforming method for the calibration of the direction-independent gain of the analog chains of aperture arrays. The gain estimates are obtained by cross-correlating the output voltage of each antenna with a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-26 Quentin Gueuning , Antony Brown , Christophe Craeye , Eloy de Lera Acedo

This paper proposes an approach that leverages multimodal data by integrating visual images with radio frequency (RF) pilots to optimize user association and beamforming in a downlink wireless cellular network under a max-min fairness…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Yinghan Li , Yiming Liu , Wei Yu

Availability of abundant spectrum has enabled millimeter wave (mm-wave) as a prominent candidate solution for the next generation cellular networks. Highly directional transmissions are essential for exploitation of mm-wave bands to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Yilin Li , Jian Luo , Mario Castaneda , Richard Stirling-Gallacher , Wen Xu , Giuseppe Caire

In most multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems, e.g., Massive MIMO, the antenna spacing is generally no less than half a wavelength. It helps to reduce the mutual coupling and therefore facilitate the system design. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Liangcheng Han , Haifan Yin , Thomas L. Marzetta