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Extremely large antenna arrays (ELAAs) are widely adopted in mmWave/THz communications to compensate for the severe path loss, wherein the channel estimation remains a significant challenge since the Rayleigh distance of ELAAs stretches to…

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Extremely large-scale multiple input multiple output (XL-MIMO), a key technology for 6G communications, faces challenges in near-field channel estimation due to spherical wavefronts and the need for three-dimensional (3D) spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Chenliang Yang , Guangchi Zhang , Miao Cui , Qingqing Wu , Yong Zeng

Six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) is an innovative technology to improve wireless network capacity by adjusting 3D positions and 3D rotations of antenna surfaces based on channel spatial distribution. However, the existing works on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang , Qijun Jiang , Jihong Park , Tony Q. S. Quek , Robert Schober

Extremely large antenna array (ELAA) is key to enhancing spectral efficiency in 6G networks. Leveraging the distributed nature of multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems enables the formation of distributed ELAA, which often operate in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Tianyu Huo , Jian Xiong , Yiyan Wu , Songjie Yang , Bo Liu , Wenjun Zhang

A significant increase in the number of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) elements results in a spherical wavefront in the near field of extremely large-scale RIS (XL-RIS). Although the channel matrix of the cascaded two-hop link may…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Zixing Tang , Yuanbin Chen , Ying Wang , Tianqi Mao , Qingqing Wu , Marco Di Renzo , Lajos Hanzo

As Extremely large-scale array (XL-array) technology advances and carrier frequency rises, the near-field effects in communication are intensifying. In near-field conditions, channels exhibit a diffusion phenomenon in the angular domain,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Hongbo Xing , Yuxiang Zhang , Jianhua Zhang , Huixin Xu , Guangyi Liu , Qixing Wang

This paper addresses the problem of uplink and downlink channel estimation in FDD Massive MIMO systems. By utilizing sparse recovery and compressive sensing algorithms, we are able to improve the accuracy of the uplink/downlink channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Yacong Ding , Bhaskar D. Rao

In the 6G era, the demand for higher system throughput and the implementation of emerging 6G technologies require large-scale antenna arrays and accurate spatial channel state information (Spatial-CSI). Traditional channel modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Lihao Zhang , Zongtan Li , Haijian Sun

The use of ultra-massive multiple-input multiple-output and high-frequency large bandwidth systems is likely in the next-generation wireless communication systems. In such systems, the user moves between near- and far-field regions, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Simon Tarboush , Anum Ali , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

We consider the channel acquisition problem for a wideband terahertz (THz) communication system, where an extremely large-scale array is deployed to mitigate severe path attenuation. In channel modeling, we account for both the near-field…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Jionghui Wang , Hongwei Wang , Jun Fang , Lingxiang Li , Zhi Chen

Terahertz (THz) band is expected to be one of the key enabling technologies of the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks because of its abundant available bandwidth and very narrow beam width. Due to high frequency operations,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Ahmet M. Elbir , Wei Shi , Anastasios K. Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas

As wireless networks transition toward 6G, high mobility, clustered scattering, and hardware impairments increasingly challenge classical assumptions on channel sparsity, resolvability, and stationarity. In these regimes, performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Hamza Haif , Abdelali Arous , Huseyin Arslan

As a promising technique, extremely large-scale (XL)-arrays offer potential solutions for overcoming the severe path loss in millimeter-wave (mmWave) and TeraHertz (THz) channels, crucial for enabling 6G. Nevertheless, XL-arrays introduce…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Songjie Yang , Wanting Lyu , Zhongpei Zhang , Chau Yuen

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 aperture arrays (ELAAs) and millimeter-wave (mmWave) technologies are essential for achieving high data rates in future wireless communication systems. To perform precise beamforming, these systems require accurate channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Heling Zhang , Xiujun Zhang , Xiaofeng Zhong , Shidong Zhou

The majority of stochastic channel models rely on the electromagnetic far-field assumption, which allows to decompose the channel in terms of plane waves. The far-field assumption breaks down in future applications that push towards the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Andrea Pizzo , Luca Sanguinetti , Thomas L. Marzetta

In this paper, we study the problem of sparse channel estimation via a collaborative and fully distributed approach. The estimation problem is formulated in the angular domain by exploiting the spatially common sparsity structure of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Maria Trigka , Christos Mavrokefalidis , Kostas Berberidis

In the sixth-generation (6G), with the further expansion of array element number and frequency bands, the wireless communications are expected to operate in the near-field region. The near-field radio communications (NFRC) will become…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Haiyang Miao , Pan Tang , Weirang Zuo , Qi Wei , Lei Tian , Jianhua Zhang

Multipath propagation is a common phenomenon in wireless communication. Knowledge of propagation path parameters such as complex channel gain, propagation delay or angle-of-arrival provides valuable information on the user position and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Christian Steffens , Yang Yang , Marius Pesavento

The sparsity of multipaths in the wideband channel has motivated the use of compressed sensing for channel estimation. In this letter, we propose a different approach to sparse channel estimation. We exploit the fact that $L$ taps of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Woong-Hee Lee , Ki Won Sung