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In this paper, we show that an eXtremely Large (XL) Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) wireless system with appropriate analog combining components exhibits the properties of a universal function approximator, similar to a feedforward…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Kyriakos Stylianopoulos , George C. Alexandropoulos

This paper addresses the intricate task of hybrid-field channel estimation in extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) systems, critical for the progression of 6G communications. Within these systems, comprising a line-of-sight (LoS) channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Yoonseong Kang , Hyowoon Seo , Wan Choi

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

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

Massive MIMO is a variant of multiuser MIMO, where the number of antennas $M$ at the base-station is large, and generally much larger than the number of spatially multiplexed data streams to/from the users. It has been observed that in many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

Extremely large-scale arrays (XL-arrays) have emerged as a promising technology to achieve super-high spectral efficiency and spatial resolution in future wireless systems. The large aperture of XL-arrays means that spherical rather than…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 Changsheng You , Yunpu Zhang , Chenyu Wu , Yong Zeng , Beixiong Zheng , Li Chen , Linglong Dai , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Future wireless systems are expected to employ extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) arrays at high carrier frequencies, where near-field propagation makes the channel depend jointly on angle and distance. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Maral Safari , Italo Atzeni

Channel estimation is one of the key issues in practical massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Compared with conventional estimation algorithms, deep learning (DL) based ones have exhibited great potential in terms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jiabao Gao , Mu Hu , Caijun Zhong , Geoffrey Ye Li , Zhaoyang Zhang

The combination of Terahertz (THz) and massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is promising to meet the increasing data rate demand of future wireless communication systems thanks to the huge bandwidth and spatial degrees of freedom.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Jiabao Gao , Xiaoming Cheng , Geoffrey Ye Li

In this paper, we investigate multi-user modular extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) communication systems, where modular extremely large-scale uniform linear array (XL-ULA) is deployed at the base station (BS) to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Xinrui Li , Zhenjun Dong , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

Accurate channel estimation is essential for reliable communication in sub-THz extremely large (XL) MIMO systems. Deploying XL-MIMO in high-frequency bands not only increases the number of antennas, but also fundamentally alters channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Wen-Xuan Long , Marco Moretti , Michele Morelli , Luca Sanguinetti , Rui Chen

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is capable of supporting extremely high system capacities with large numbers of users. In this work, we build a framework for the analysis and low-complexity design of XL-MIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-13 Kangda Zhi , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kok Keong Chai , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Robert Schober , Xiaohu You

Extremely large-scale massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) has shown considerable potential in future mobile communications. However, the use of extremely large aperture arrays has led to near-field and spatial non-stationary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Yu Han , Shi Jin , Chao-Kai Wen , Xiaoli Ma

The recently envisioned goal-oriented communications paradigm calls for the application of inference on wirelessly transferred data via Machine Learning (ML) tools. An emerging research direction deals with the realization of inference ML…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Kyriakos Stylianopoulos , Mattia Fabiani , Giulia Torcolacci , Davide Dardari , George C. Alexandropoulos

Near-field ultra-massive MIMO (U-MIMO) systems provide enhanced spatial resolution but present challenges for channel estimation, particularly when hybrid architectures are employed. Within this framework, dictionary-based channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Luca Antonelli , Antonio Alberto D Amico , Luca Sanguinetti

Extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO) at millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) bands plays an important role in supporting extreme high beamforming gain as well as ultra-wideband spectrum resources.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Mingyao Cui , Linglong Dai

Exploiting channel sparsity at millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies reduces the high training overhead associated with the channel estimation stage. Compressive sensing (CS) channel estimation techniques usually adopt the (overcomplete)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Hongxiang Xie , Javier Rodríguez-Fernández , Nuria González-Prelcic

XL-MIMO promises to provide ultrahigh data rates in Terahertz (THz) spectrum. However, the spherical-wavefront wireless transmission caused by large aperture array presents huge challenges for channel state information (CSI) acquisition.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Xu Shi , Jintao Wang , Zhi Sun , Jian Song

In order to achieve reliable communication with a high data rate of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems in frequency division duplex (FDD) mode, the estimated channel state information (CSI) at the receiver needs to be fed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 J. Guo , L. Wang , F. Li , J. Xue

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) enjoys great advantage in 5G wireless communication systems owing to its spectrum and energy efficiency. However, hundreds of antennas require large volumes of pilot overhead to guarantee…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 An Chen , Wenbo Xu , Liyang Lu , Yue Wang