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In this paper, we present a fixed mmWave Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system for fixed wireless access with a unique architecture. A digital MIMO system is combined with an analog multi-beam antenna array which uses a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-10 Achiel Colpaert , Evgenii Vinogradov , Sofie Pollin

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is critical for efficient spectrum and hardware utilization in future wireless networks like 6G. However, existing channel models lack comprehensive characterization of ISAC-specific dynamics,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-07 Saúl Fenollosa , Narcis Cardona , Wenfei Yang , Jian Li

We have extended our previous work to use the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) as a non-coherent passive radar system in the FM frequency band, using terrestrial FM transmitters to illuminate objects in Low Earth Orbit LEO) and the MWA as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Steve Prabu , Paul J Hancock , Zhang Xiang , Steven J Tingay

This paper describes a radio architecture for distributed spectrum sharing of multiple channels among secondary users (SUs) in a wide band of frequencies and a localized area. A novel Multichannel Immediate Multiple Access (MIMA) physical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Mingming Cai , J. Nicholas Laneman

Incorporating full duplex operation in Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems provides the potential of boosting throughput performance. However, the hardware complexity of the analog self-interference canceller in emerging full…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-26 George C. Alexandropoulos , Melissa Duarte

Our previously reported survey of the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) environment using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) detected over 70 unique Resident Space Objects (RSOs) over multiple passes, from 20 hours of observations in passive radar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Steve Prabu , Paul J Hancock , Xiang Zhang , Steven J Tingay , Torrance Hodgson , Brian Crosse , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt

The CHIME Pathfinder is a new interferometric radio telescope that uses a hybrid FPGA/GPU FX correlator. The GPU-based X-engine of this correlator processes over 819 Gb/s of 4+4-bit complex astronomical data from N=256 inputs across a 400…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Andre Recnik , Kevin Bandura , Nolan Denman , Adam D. Hincks , Gary Hinshaw , Peter Klages , Ue-Li Pen , Keith Vanderlinde

With the increase in the number of antennas at base stations (BSs), centralized multi-antenna architectures have encountered scalability problems from excessive interconnection bandwidth to the central processing unit (CPU), as well as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Juan Vidal Alegría , Fredrik Rusek

To analyze a homogeneous weakly coupled multicore fiber (WC-MCF) based transmission system via simulation, we propose an efficient (fast and accurate) WC-MCF's channel model, which can describe the propagation effects including attenuation,…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-17 Lin Gan , Jiajun Zhou , Songnian Fu , Ming Tang , Deming Liu

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication plays a vital role to efficiently disseminate large volumes of data in beyond-5G networks. Unfortunately, the directionality of mmWave communication significantly complicates efficient data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Gek Hong , Sim , Mahdi Mousavi , Lin Wang , Anja Klein , Matthias Hollick

Next-generation wireless technologies (for immersive-massive communication, joint communication and sensing) demand highly parallel architectures for massive data processing. A common architectural template scales up by grouping tens to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Samuel Riedel , Yichao Zhang , Marco Bertuletti , Luca Benini

A "large-N" correlator that makes use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays and Graphics Processing Units has been deployed as the digital signal processing system for the Long Wavelength Array station at Owens Valley Radio Observatory…

The Long Wavelength Array (LWA) will be a new multi-purpose radio telescope operating in the frequency range 10-88 MHz. Scientific programs include pulsars, supernova remnants, general transient searches, radio recombination lines, solar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-11 G. B. Taylor , The LWA Collaboration

Multi-channel analysers (MCAs) play a crucial role in spectral measurements, especially in the context of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) used for gamma spectroscopy. Most commercial MCAs, while highly accurate, remain cost-prohibitive for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-21 P. Kučera , O. Urban , O. Růžička , M. Vítek , P. M. Stašek , R. Klesa , M. Holík , F. Ahmadov , A. Sadigov , A. Mammadli , Ch. Abbasova , O. Pavlas , T. Slavíček

The millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies offer the potential of orders of magnitude increases in capacity for next-generation cellular systems. However, links in mmWave networks are susceptible to blockage and may suffer from rapid…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Marco Giordani , Marco Mezzavilla , Sundeep Rangan , Michele Zorzi

Microwave linear analog computers (MiLACs) have recently emerged as a promising solution for future gigantic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, enabling beamforming with greatly reduced hardware and computational cost. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Qiaosen Zhang , Matteo Nerini , Bruno Clerckx

We explore for the first time the method of cross-correlation of radio synchrotron emission and tracers of large-scale structure in order to detect the diffuse IGM/WHIM. We performed a cross-correlation of a 34 x 34 degree area of 2MASS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Shea Brown , Damon Farnsworth , Lawrence Rudnick

Computationally intensive Inference tasks of Deep neural networks have enforced revolution of new accelerator architecture to reduce power consumption as well as latency. The key figure of merit in hardware inference accelerators is the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Hyunbin Park , Dohyun Kim , Shiho Kim

In this paper, a novel continuous-aperture array (CAPA)-based wireless communication architecture is proposed, which relies on an electrically large aperture with a continuous current distribution. First, an existing prototype of CAPA is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Yuanwei Liu , Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Jiaqi Xu , Xidong Mu , Zhiguo Ding

At relatively high frequencies, highly sensitive grating sidelobes occur in the primary beam patterns of low frequency aperture arrays (LFAA) such as the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). This occurs when the observing wavelength becomes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-05 J. H. Cook , N. Seymour , M. Sokolowski