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In this paper, we consider the precoder design for an underloaded or critically loaded downlink multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system. We propose novel precoding and decoding schemes which enhance system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Aravindh Krishnamoorthy , Robert Schober

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems achieve high sum spectral efficiency by offering an order of magnitude increase in multiplexing gains. In time division duplexing systems, however, the reuse of uplink training pilots…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Geert Leus , Robert W. Heath

Fifth generation networks will incorporate a variety of new features in wireless networks such as data offloading, D2D communication, and Massive MIMO. Massive MIMO is specially appealing since it achieves huge gains while enabling simple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Salah Eddine Hajri , Mohamad Assaad

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) provides a ubiquitous coverage to user equipments (UEs) but it is also susceptible to interference. Ratesplitting (RS) effectively extracts data by decoding interference, yet its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Octavia A. Dobre , Bo Ai

Massive multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) will be a core technology in fifth-generation (5G) wireless systems as it offers significant improvements in spectral efficiency compared to existing multi-antenna technologies.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Oscar Castañeda , Sven Jacobsson , Giuseppe Durisi , Mikael Coldrey , Tom Goldstein , Christoph Studer

Pilot contamination, defined as the interference during the channel estimation process due to reusing the same pilot sequences in neighboring cells, can severely degrade the performance of massive multiple-input multiple-output systems. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-05 L. Srikar Muppirisetty , Themistoklis Charalambous , Johnny Karout , Gabor Fodor , Henk Wymeersch

In this paper, we study the design of secure communication for time division duplex multi-cell multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with active eavesdropping. We assume that the eavesdropper actively attacks the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Yongpeng Wu , Chao-Kai Wen , Wen Chen , Shi Jin , Robert Schober , Giuseppe Caire

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (massive MIMO) can provide large spectral and energy efficiency gains. Nevertheless, its potential is conditioned on acquiring accurate channel state information (CSI). In time division duplexing (TDD)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Salah Eddine Hajri , Mohamad Assaad

Cell-free massive MIMO systems are currently being considered as potential enablers of future (6G) technologies for wireless communications. By combining distributed processing and massive MIMO, they are expected to deliver improved user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Raphael M. Guedes , José F. de Rezende , Valmir C. Barbosa

This paper proposes, for the first time, a hybrid multiple access framework that integrates the principles of rate-splitting (RS) and sparse code multiple access (SCMA) in an SISO downlink scenario. The proposed scheme, termed RS-SCMA,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Minerva Priyadarsini , Zilong Liu , Kuntal Deka , Sujit Kumar Sahoo , Sanjeev Sharma

Two key traits of 5G cellular networks are much higher base station (BS) densities - especially in the case of low-power BSs - and the use of massive MIMO at these BSs. This paper explores how massive MIMO can be used to jointly maximize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Qiaoyang Ye , Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu , Haralabos C. Papadopoulos , Constantine Caramanis , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MMIMO) is essential to modern wireless communication systems, like 5G and 6G, but it is vulnerable to active eavesdropping attacks. One type of such attack is the pilot contamination attack (PCA),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Pedro Ivo da Cruz , Dimitri Silva , Tito Spadini , Ricardo Suyama , Murilo Bellezoni Loiola

To guarantee the success of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), one of the main challenges to solve is the efficient management of pilot contamination. Allocation of fully orthogonal pilot sequences across the network would…

The channel hardening effect is less pronounced in the cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) system compared to its cellular counterpart, making it necessary to estimate the downlink effective channel gains to ensure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Weiyang Xu , Ruiguang Wang , Yuan Zhang , Hien Quoc Ngo , Wei Xiang

The users at cell edge of a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system suffer from severe pilot contamination, which leads to poor quality of service (QoS). In order to enhance the QoS for these edge users, soft pilot reuse (SPR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-16 Xudong Zhu , Zhaocheng Wang , Chen Qian , Linglong Dai , Jinhui Chen , Sheng Chen , Lajos Hanzo

Massive interconnection has sparked people's envisioning for next-generation ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (xURLLC), prompting the design of customized next-generation advanced transceivers (NGAT). Rate-splitting multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yuang Chen , Hancheng Lu , Chenwu Zhang , Yansha Deng , Arumugam Nallanathan

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can significantly enhance the service coverage of Tera-Hertz massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems. However, obtaining accurate high-dimensional channel state…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Minghui Wu , Zhen Gao , Yang Huang , Zhenyu Xiao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Zhaoyang Zhang

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication is a promising technology for increasing spectral efficiency in wireless networks. Two of the main challenges massive MIMO systems face are degraded channel estimation accuracy due…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Shahar S. Ioushua , Yonina C. Eldar

In order to manage the increasing interference between radar and communication systems, joint radar and communication (RadCom) systems have attracted increased attention in recent years, with the studies so far considering the assumption of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Rafael Cerna-Loli , Onur Dizdar , Bruno Clerckx

As a promising downlink multiple access scheme, Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) has been shown to achieve superior spectral and energy efficiencies compared with Space-Division Multiple Access (SDMA) and Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Yijie Mao , Bruno Clerckx , Victor O. K. Li