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A near-field wideband beamforming scheme is investigated for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, in which a deep learning-based end-to-end (E2E) optimization framework is proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Ji Wang , Jian Xiao , Yixuan Zou , Wenwu Xie , Yuanwei Liu

Wideband extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is a promising technique to achieve Tbps data rates in future 6G systems through beamforming and spatial multiplexing. Due to the extensive bandwidth and the huge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Mingyao Cui , Linglong Dai , Zhaocheng Wang , Shidong Zhou , Ning Ge

Prior works on near-field beam training have mostly assumed dedicated polar-domain codebook and on-grid range estimation, which, however, may suffer long training overhead and degraded estimation accuracy. To address these issues, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Xun Wu , Changsheng You , Jiapeng Li , Yunpu 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

Intelligent metasurface has recently emerged as a promising technology that enables the customization of wireless environments by harnessing large numbers of low-cost reconfigurable scattering elements. However, prior studies have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Jiancheng An , Marco Di Renzo , Mérouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor , Chau Yuen

In this paper, we study the beamforming design problem in frequency-division duplexing (FDD) downlink massive MIMO systems, where instantaneous channel state information (CSI) is assumed to be unavailable at the base station (BS). We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Hang Liu , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying Jun , Zhang

Near-field beamfocusing enabled by extremely large-aperture arrays (ELAA) is a promising 6G technique for massive connectivity and high spectrum efficiency. While beamfocusing concentrates energy at an intended user, the radiated field…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shima Mashhadi , Tiep M. Hoang , Alireza Vahid

Atomic norm minimization (ANM) has been extensively applied for gridless angle estimation. However, with the increase of the number of antennas and the communication frequencies in massive MIMO systems, the accompanying beam squint effect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 An Chen , Wenbo Xu

Large-scale MIMO systems are well known for their advantages in communications, but they also have the potential for providing very accurate localization thanks to their high angular resolution. A difficult problem arising indoors and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-13 Nil Garcia , Henk Wymeersch , Erik G. Larsson , Alexander M. Haimovich , Martial Coulon

User equipment mobility is one of the primary challenges for the design of reliable and efficient wireless links over millimeter-wave and terahertz bands. These high-rate communication systems use directional antennas and therefore have to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Vitaly Petrov , Dmitri Moltchanov , Yevgeni Koucheryavy , Josep Miquel Jornet

The resolution of near-field beamforming is an important metric to measure how effectively users with different locations can be located. This letter identifies the condition under which the resolution of near-field beamforming is not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Zhiguo Ding

It is envisioned that the next generations of wireless communication environment will be characterized with dense traffic demand due to the prediction that there will be large numbers of active users. Hence, it is important to find a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Ziad Qais Al-Abbasi

Being able to dynamically control the transmitted-beam divergence can bring important advantages in free-space optical communications. Specifically, this technique can help to optimize the overall communications performance when the optimum…

We consider the following positioning problem where several base stations (BS) try to locate a user equipment (UE): The UE sends a positioning signal to several BS. Each BS performs Angle of Arrival (AoA) measurements on the received…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Viet-Hoa Nguyen , Vincent Corlay , Nicolas Gresset , Cristina Ciochina

Phase-time arrays, which integrate phase shifters (PSs) and true-time delays (TTDs), have emerged as a cost-effective architecture for generating frequency-dependent rainbow beams in wideband sensing and localization. This paper proposes an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yeyue Cai , Jianhua Mo , Meixia Tao

In this letter, we study the energy efficiency maximization problem for a fluid antenna system (FAS) in near field communications. Specifically, we consider a point-to-point near-field system where the base station (BS) transmitter has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Yixuan Chen , Mingzhe Chen , Hao Xu , Zhaohui Yang , Kai-Kit Wong , Zhaoyang Zhang

This paper proposes a new transmission strategy for the multiuser massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, including uplink/downlink channel estimation and user scheduling for data transmission. A discrete Fourier transform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Hongxiang Xie , Feifei Gao , Shun Zhang , Shi Jin

A near-field simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) network is investigated, where the hybrid beamforming architecture is employed at the base station (BS) for information transmission while charging energy harvesting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Zheng Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Jian Chen

Terahertz (THz) communications, with their substantial bandwidth, are essential for meeting the ultra-high data rate demands of emerging high-mobility scenarios such as vehicular-to-everything (V2X) networks. In these contexts, beamwidth…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-14 Wuhan Chen , Yuheng Fan , Chuang Yang , Mugen Peng

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) communications are one of the enabling technologies of 5G and beyond networks. While prior work indicates that mMIMO networks employing time division duplexing have a significant capacity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Flavio Maschietti , Gábor Fodor , David Gesbert , Paul de Kerret