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Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is the development trend of future wireless communications. However, the extremely large-scale antenna array could bring inevitable nearfield and dual-wideband effects that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Jie Xu , Li You , George C. Alexandropoulos , Xinping Yi , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao

In millimeter-wave communication, large antenna arrays are required to achieve high power gain by steering towards each other with narrow beams, which poses the problem to efficiently search the best beam direction in the angle domain at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zhenyu Xiao , Tong He , Pengfei Xia , Xiang-Gen Xia

Channel estimation is one of the key challenges for the deployment of extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS) assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In this paper, we study the channel estimation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-29 Jeongjae Lee , Hyeongjin Chung , Yunseong Cho , Sunwoo Kim , Songnam Hong

Communications system with analog or hybrid analog/digital architectures usually relies on a pre-defined codebook to perform beamforming. With the increase in the size of the antenna array, the characteristics of the spherical wavefront in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Jiawei Chen , Feifei Gao , Mengnan Jian , Wanmai Yuan

Extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple output (XL-MIMO) is a promising technology to achieve high spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE) in future wireless systems. The larger array aperture of XL-MIMO makes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Bokai Xu , Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Zhe Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Dusit Niyato , Bo Ai , Khaled B. Letaief

Existing near-field channel estimation methods for extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) typically discretize angle and range parameters jointly, resulting in large polar-domain codebooks. This paper proposes a novel framework that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Feng Xi , Dehui Yang

In millimeter wave cellular communication, fast and reliable beam alignment via beam training is crucial to harvest sufficient beamforming gain for the subsequent data transmission. In this paper, we establish fundamental limits in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Chunshan Liu , Min Li , Stephen V. Hanly , Iain B. Collings , Philip Whiting

Near-field beam training is essential for acquiring channel state information in 6G extremely large-scale multiple input multiple output (XL-MIMO) systems. To achieve low-overhead beam training, existing method has been proposed to leverage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Tianyue Zheng , Mingyao Cui , Zidong Wu , Linglong Dai

Fully digital massive MIMO systems with large numbers (1000+) of antennas offer dramatically increased capacity gains from spatial multiplexing and beamforming. Designing digital receivers that can scale to these array dimensions presents…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Ali Rasteh , Amirreza Kiani , Marco Mezzavilla , Sundeep Rangan

Extremely large-scale massive MIMO (XL-MIMO) is a promising technique for future 6G communications.However, existing far-field or near-field channel model mismatches the hybrid-field channel feature in the practical XL-MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Xiuhong Wei , Linglong Dai

Extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is a promising technology to empower the next-generation communications. However, XL-MIMO, which is still in its early stage of research, has been designed with a variety of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Zhe Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Wei E. I. Sha , Bo Ai , Dusit Niyato , Mérouane Debbah

Beam codebooks are a new feature of massive multiple-input multiple-output (M-MIMO) in 5G new radio (NR). Codebooks comprised of beamforming vectors are used to transmit reference signals and obtain limited channel state information (CSI)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Ryan M. Dreifuerst , Robert W. Heath , Ali Yazdan

One of the most important technologies in the fifth generation (5G) and the sixth generation (6G) is massive multiple input multiple outputs (MIMO) or extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO). With the evolving high-frequency technologies in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xiangyu Cui , Ki-Hong Park , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems are pivotal to next-generation wireless communications, where dynamic RF chain architectures offer enhanced performance. However, efficient precoding in such systems…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Jiayi Lu , Jiayi Zhang , Hao Lei , Huahua Xiao , Bo Ai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

This work establishes a framework of near-field communication under different array geometries of extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO). We first formulate the near-field spatial non-stationary channel model which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Kangda Zhi , Yi Song , Tianyu Yang , Tuo Wu , Tengjiao Wang , Songyan Xue , Fangzhou Wu , Giuseppe Caire

Existing research on extremely large-scale intelligent reflecting surface (XL-IRS) beam training has assumed the far-field channel model for base station (BS)-IRS link. However, this approach may cause degraded beam training performance in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-13 Tao Wang , Changsheng You , Changchuan Yin

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) enables the formation of narrow beams, effectively mitigating path loss in high-frequency communications. This capability makes the integration of wideband high-frequency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Peicong Zheng , Xuantao Lyu , Ye Wang , Yi Gong

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is a promising technique to enable versatile applications for future wireless communications.To realize the huge potential performance gain, accurate channel state information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Hao Lei , Jiayi Zhang , Huahua Xiao , Xiaodan Zhang , Bo Ai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS) has recently been proposed and is recognized as a promising technology that can further enhance the capacity of communication systems and compensate for severe path loss .…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Wang Liu , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Feng Shu , Shi Jin , Jiangzhou Wang

In this paper, stochastic channel models for massive MIMO (M-MIMO) and extreme large MIMO (XL- MIMO) system applications are described, evaluated and systematically compared. This work aims to cover new aspects of massive MIMO stochastic…

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