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In this work, a novel design of electromagnetically reconfigurable antennas (ERAs) based on a fluid antenna system (FAS) is proposed, and the corresponding wireless channel model is established. Different from conventional antenna arrays…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Ruiqi Wang , Pinjun Zheng , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Atif Shamim

Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs) are emerging as a promising technology to enable energy-efficient, large array-based multi-antenna systems. This paper presents a simple channel estimation scheme for the downlink of a multiple-input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Amarilton L. Magalhães , Fazal E-Asim , André L. F. de Almeida , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In the context of satellite communications, random access (RA) methods can significantly increase throughput and reduce latency over the network. The recent RA methods are based on multi-user multiple access transmission at the same time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-16 Karine Zidane , Jérôme Lacan , Marie-Laure Boucheret , Charly Poulliat

This paper considers a downlink cell-free multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network in which multiple multi-antenna access points (APs) serve multiple users via coherent joint transmission. In order to reduce the energy consumption by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Liangzhi Wang , Chen Chen , Jie Zhang , Carlo Fischione

For a multiple antenna system, we compute the asymptotic distribution of antenna selection gain when the transmitter selects the transmit antenna with the strongest channel. We use this to asymptotically estimate the underlying channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Dongwoon Bai , Patrick Mitran , Saeed S. Ghassemzadeh , Robert R. Miller , Vahid Tarokh

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) is a key capacity-boosting technology in 5G wireless systems. To reduce the number of radio frequency (RF) chains needed in such systems, a novel approach has recently been introduced involving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Sina Beyraghi , Giovanni Interdonato , Giovanni Geraci , Stefano Buzzi , Angel Lozano

Recent advancement in next generation reconfigurable antenna and fluid antenna technology has influenced the wireless system with polarization reconfigurable (PR) channels to attract significant attention for promoting beneficial channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Seungcheol Oh , Han Han , Joongheon Kim , Sean Kwon

In this paper, we propose to leverage rotatable antennas (RAs) for improving the communication performance in mixed near-field and far-field communication systems by exploiting a new spatial degree-of-freedom (DoF) offered by antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Yunpu Zhang , Changsheng You , Hing Cheung So , Dusit Niyato , Yonina C. Eldar

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been proposed as a key enabler to improve the coverage of the signals and mitigate the frequent blockages in millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-16 Rafaela Schroeder , Jiguang He , Glauber Brante , Markku Juntti

Achieving high channel estimation accuracy and reducing hardware cost as well as power dissipation constitute substantial challenges in the design of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. To resolve these difficulties,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Yalin Wang , Xihan Chen , Yunlong Cai , Benoit Champagne , Lajos Hanzo

Cell-Free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are two promising technologies for application to beyond-5G networks. This paper considers Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Symeon Chatzinotas , Marco Di Renzo , Björn Ottersten

This paper aims to realize a new multiple access technique based on recently proposed millimeter-wave reconfigurable antenna architectures. To this end, first we show that integration of the existing reconfigurable antenna systems with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Mojtaba Ahmadi Almasi , Hani Mehrpouyan , David Matolak , Cunhua Pan , Maged Elkashlan

A variety of hybrid analog-digital beamforming architectures have recently been proposed for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems to reduce energy consumption and the cost of implementation. In the analog processing network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Kyungchun Lee

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are passive controllable arrays of small reflectors that direct electromagnetic energy towards or away from the target nodes, thereby allowing better management of signals and interference in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Bharath Shamasundar , Negar Daryanavardan , Aria Nosratinia

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) antenna systems and inter-band carrier aggregation (CA)-enabled multi-band communication are two key technologies to achieve very high data rates in beyond fifth generation (B5G) wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Nuwan Balasuriya , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

This work studies the problems of channel estimation and beamforming for active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication, incorporating the mutual coupling (MC) effect through an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Pinjun Zheng , Simon Tarboush , Hadi Sarieddeen , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Antenna selection in Massive MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) communication systems enables reduction of complexity, cost and power while keeping the channel capacity high and retaining the diversity, interference reduction, spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Harun Siljak , Irene Macaluso , Nicola Marchetti

Movable antennas (MAs) have emerged as a promising technology to improve wireless communication and sensing performance towards sixth-generation (6G) networks through flexible antenna movement. In this paper, we propose a novel wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Haobin Mao , Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang

This book chapter reviews signal detection and parameter estimation techniques for multiuser multiple-antenna wireless systems with a very large number of antennas, known as massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems. We consider both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-22 R. C. de Lamare , R. Sampaio Neto

In conventional multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), static array configurations struggle in dynamic environments, and further antenna scaling is bounded by cost, energy, and footprint. Emerging approaches, which can enable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhe Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Bokai Xu , Wenhui Yi , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai