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Recently, multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) systems with low-resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs) has received considerable attention, owing to the capability of dramatically reducing the hardware cost. Besides,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-16 Lei Chu , Fei Wen , Robert Caiming Qiu

In massive MIMO systems, fully digital precoding offers high performance but has significant implementation complexity and energy consumption, particularly at millimeter frequencies and beyond. Hybrid analog-digital architectures provide a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Parisa Ramezani , Alva Kosasih , Emil Björnson

MIMO systems are considered as most promising for wireless communications. However, with an increasing number of radio front ends the corresponding energy consumption and costs become an issue, which can be relieved by the utilization of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Erico S. P. Lopes , Lukas T. N. Landau

This paper considers a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) system where the downlink communication between a base station (BS) and multiple user equipments (UEs) is aided by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Parisa Ramezani , Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Emil Björnson

In our previous work [2], we introduced a hardware- and power-efficient architecture for hybrid digital-analog (HDA) multiuser MIMO (MU-MIMO) based on stacking identical basic modules. Each module consists of a small active multi-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Krishan Kumar Tiwari , Giuseppe Caire

Many wireless systems divide the baseband processing between two locations, interconnected by a fronthaul. This paper examines the impact of fronthaul quantization on multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Starting from a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

Sharing global channel information at base stations (BSs) is commonly assumed for downlink multi-cell precoding. In the context of massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems where each BS is equipped with a large number of antennas,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Liangbin Li , Alexei Ashikhmin , Thomas Marzetta

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

Remarkable research activities and major advances have been occurred over the past decade in multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems. Several transmission technologies and precoding techniques have been developed in order…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Eduardo Castañeda , Adão Silva , Atílio Gameiro , Marios Kountouris

The Cloud-Radio Access Network (C-RAN) cellular architecture relies on the transfer of complex baseband signals to and from a central unit (CU) over digital fronthaul links to enable the virtualization of the baseband processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Wonju Lee , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang , Shlomo Shamai

Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems play a crucial role in fifth-generation (5G) mobile communications, primarily achieved through the utilization of precoding matrix techniques. This paper presents precoding techniques employing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Francisco Díaz-Ruiz , Francisco J. Martín-Vega , Gerardo Gómez , Mari Carmen Aguayo-Torres

This work focuses on the downlink communication of a multiuser MIMO system where the base station antennas and the users' receiving antennas are all active, but at each transmission, only a subset of the receive antennas is selected by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-21 Azucena Duarte , Raimundo Sampaio-Neto

Limited capacity of fronthaul links in a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system can cause quantization errors at a central processing unit (CPU) during data transmission, complicating the centralized rate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-29 Minje Kim , In-soo Kim , Junil Choi

Using precoding to suppress multi-user interference is a well-known technique to improve spectra efficiency in multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems, and the pursuit of high performance and low complexity precoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Maojun Zhang , Jiabao Gao , Caijun Zhong

Fronthaul quantization causes a significant distortion in cell-free massive MIMO networks. Due to the limited capacity of fronthaul links, information exchange among access points (APs) must be quantized significantly. Furthermore, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Vida Ranjbar , Robbert Beerten , Marc Moonen , Sofie Pollin

This paper explores the application of uplink fronthaul compression techniques within Open RAN (O-RAN) to mitigate fronthaul load in decentralized distributed MIMO (DD-MIMO) systems. With the ever-increasing demand for high data rates and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Mostafa Rahmani , Junbo Zhao , Vida Ranjbar , Ahmed Al-Tahmeesschi , Hamed Ahmadi , Sofie Pollin , Alister G. Burr

This letter presents a low-complexity hybrid precoding framework for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems by leveraging a low-dimensional subspace property. Under the low-dimensional subspace perspective, we first…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Mintaek Oh , Jinseok Choi

Cloud RAN (C-RAN) is a promising enabler for distributed massive MIMO systems, yet is vulnerable to its fronthaul congestion. To cope with the limited fronthaul capacity, this paper proposes a hybrid analog-digital precoding design that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Jihong Park , Dong Min Kim , Elisabeth De Carvalho , Carles Navarro Manchón

Hybrid precoding has been recognized as a promising technology to combat the path loss of millimeter wave signals in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. However, due to the joint optimization of the digital and analog…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-12 Ling Zhang , Lin Gui , Kai Ying , Qibo Qin

Cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is considered, where distributed access points (APs) multiply the received signal by the conjugate of the estimated channel, and send back a quantized version of this weighted signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Manijeh Bashar , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Alister G. Burr , Hien Quoc Ngo , Merouane Debbah , Pei Xiao