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The uplink performance of massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems where the base stations (BS) employ low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) is analyzed. A high performance MMSE receiver that takes both additive…

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A one-bit wireless transceiver is a promising communication architecture that not only can facilitate the design of mmWave communication systems but also can extremely diminish power consumption. The non-linear distortion effects by one-bit…

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Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) stand for a significant part of the total power consumption in a massive MIMO base station. One-bit ADCs are one way to reduce power consumption. This paper presents an analysis of the spectral efficiency…

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Massive MIMO systems are moving toward increased numbers of radio frequency chains, higher carrier frequencies and larger bandwidths. As such, digital-to-analog converters (DACs) are becoming a bottleneck in terms of hardware complexity and…

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Employing low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) for millimeter wave receivers with large antenna arrays provides opportunity to efficiently reduce power consumption of the receiver. Reducing ADC resolution, however, results in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Jinseok Choi , Gilwon Lee , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Alan Gatherer , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Brian L. Evans

The uplink achievable rate of massive multiple- input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where the low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are assumed to equip at the base station (BS), is investigated in this paper. We assume that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Kai Liu , Cheng Tao , Liu Liu , Yinsheng Liu

Quantizers play a critical role in digital signal processing systems. Recent works have shown that the performance of quantization systems acquiring multiple analog signals using scalar analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Nir Shlezinger , Yonina C. Eldar

Low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) have emerged as an efficient solution for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems to reap high data rates with reasonable power consumption and hardware complexity. In this…

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This paper considers channel estimation and uplink achievable rate of the coarsely quantized massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with radio frequency (RF) impairments. We utilize additive quantization noise model (AQNM) and…

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In this paper, we investigate the capacity of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems corrupted by complex-valued additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) when both the transmitter and the receiver employ 1-bit digital-to-analog…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Armin Bazrafkan , Nikola Zlatanov

This paper focuses on channel estimation in single-user and multi-user MIMO systems with multi-antenna base stations equipped with 1-bit spatial sigma-delta analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). A careful selection of the quantization…

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We investigate the uplink throughput achievable by a multiple-user (MU) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system in which the base station is equipped with a large number of low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Sven Jacobsson , Giuseppe Durisi , Mikael Coldrey , Ulf Gustavsson , Christoph Studer

Low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are promising for reducing energy consumption and costs of multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with many antennas. We propose low-resolution multiuser MIMO receivers…

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Improving the power efficiency and spectral efficiency of communication systems has been one of the major research goals over the recent years. However, there is a tradeoff in achieving both goals at the same time. In this work, we consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Hela Jedda , Muhammad Mudussir Ayub , Jawad Munir , Amine Mezghani , Josef A. Nossek

We investigate massive multiple-input-multiple output (MIMO) uplink systems with 1-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) on each receiver antenna. Receivers that rely on 1-bit ADC do not need energy-consuming interfaces such as automatic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Chiara Risi , Daniel Persson , Erik G. Larsson

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems have attracted much attention lately due to the many advantages they provide over single-antenna systems. Owing to the many antennas, low-cost implementation and low power consumption…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Ali Bulut Üçüncü , Emil Björnson , Håkan Johansson , Erik G. Larsson , Ali Özgür Yılmaz

We consider general multi-antenna fading channels with coarsely quantized outputs, where the channel is unknown to the transmitter and receiver. This analysis is of interest in the context of sensor network communication where low power and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-28 Amine Mezghani , Josef A. Nossek

One of the basic aspects of Massive MIMO (MaMi) that is in the focus of current investigations is its potential of using low-cost and energy-efficient hardware. It is often claimed that MaMi will allow for using analog-to-digital converters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Muris Sarajlić , Liang Liu , Ove Edfors

Analog signals processed in digital hardware are quantized into a discrete bit-constrained representation. Quantization is typically carried out using analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), operating in a serial scalar manner. In some…

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