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Acquiring the channel state information from limited and noisy observations at pilot positions is critical for wireless multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. In this paper, we view…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Weijie Zhou , Zhaoyang Zhang , Yuzhi Yang , Sen Yan , Zhixian Kong , Merouane Debbah

Massive MIMO opens up attractive possibilities for next generation wireless systems with its large number of antennas offering spatial diversity and multiplexing gain. However, the fronthaul link that connects a massive MIMO Remote Radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Aswathylakshmi P , Radha Krishna Ganti

A massive MIMO system entails a large number (tens or hundreds) of base station antennas serving a much smaller number of terminals. These systems demonstrate large gains in spectral and energy efficiency compared with conventional MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-19 Ansuman Adhikary , Alexei Ashikhmin , Thomas L. Marzetta

Massive multiple-input--multiple-output (MIMO) systems can suffer from coherent intercell interference due to the phenomenon of pilot contamination. This paper investigates a two-layer decoding method that mitigates both coherent and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Trinh Van Chien , Christopher Mollén , Emil Björnson

In this paper, we study the problem of uplink channel estimation for near-filed orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, where a base station (BS), equipped with an extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA), serves…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Jionghui Wang , Jun Fang , Hongbin Li , Boyu Ning

Wireless communications are typically subject to complex channel dynamics, requiring the transmission of pilot sequences to estimate and equalize such effects and correctly receive information bits. This is especially true in 6G…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-14 Bruno De Filippo , Carla Amatetti , Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli

We propose adjustable phase shift pilots (APSPs) for channel acquisition in wideband massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems employing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) to reduce the pilot overhead. Based on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Li You , Xiqi Gao , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Wen Zhong

How to reduce the pilot overhead required for channel estimation? How to deal with the channel dynamic changes and error propagation in channel prediction? To jointly address these two critical issues in next-generation transceiver design,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Zirui Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Zhaohui Yang , Chongwen Huang , Merouane Debbah

Media-based modulation (MBM) is a novel modulation technique that can improve the spectral efficiency of the existing wireless systems. In MBM, multiple radio frequency (RF) mirrors are placed near the transmit antenna(s) and are switched…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Manish Mandloi , Devendra Singh Gurjar

Although it is often used in the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, application of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) over the orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation could suffer from enormous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Yushan Liu , Shun Zhang , Feifei Gao , Jianpeng Ma , Xianbin Wang

Orthogonal delay-Doppler division multiplexing~(ODDM) modulation has recently been regarded as a promising technology to provide reliable communications in high-mobility situations. Accurate and low-complexity channel estimation is one of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Dezhi Wang , Chongwen Huang , Xiaojun Yuan , Sami Muhaidat , Lei Liu , Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Chau Yuen , Mérouane Debbah

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems rely on digital or hybrid digital and analog designs for beamforming against frequency-selective fading, which suffer from high hardware…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Zheao Li , Jiancheng An , Chau Yuen

Low-complexity carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation and compensation in multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems is a challenging problem. The existing CFO estimation algorithms incur tremendous increase in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Sudarshan Mukherjee , Saif Khan Mohammed

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are strong candidates for future fifth generation (5G) heterogeneous cellular networks. For 5G, a network densification with a high number of different classes of users and data service…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 L. Arevalo , R. C. de Lamare , M. Haardt , R. Sampaio-Neto

This paper considers the uplink of user-centric cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems. We utilize the user-centric dynamic cooperation clustering (DCC) framework and derive the achievable spectral efficiency with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

Transmitter channel state information (CSIT) is indispensable for the spectral efficiency gains offered by massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In a frequency-division-duplexing (FDD) massive MIMO system, CSIT is typically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Deokhwan Han , Jeonghun Park , Namyoon Lee

We propose a strategy for orthogonal downlink pilot assignment in cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) that exploits knowledge of the channel state information, the channel hardening degree at each user, and the mobility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Giovanni Interdonato , Pål Frenger , Erik G. Larsson

This paper considers the transceiver design for uplink massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with channel sparsity in the angular domain. Recent progress has shown that sparsity-learning-based blind signal detection is able…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Wenjing Yan , Xiaojun Yuan

Channel estimation is fundamental to wireless communications, yet it becomes increasingly challenging in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems where base stations employ hundreds of antennas. Traditional least-squares…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Pinjun Zheng , Md. Jahangir Hossain , Anas Chaaban

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (massive MIMO) can provide large spectral and energy efficiency gains. Nevertheless, its potential is conditioned on acquiring accurate channel state information (CSI). In time division duplexing (TDD)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Salah Eddine Hajri , Mohamad Assaad