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Terahertz (THz) communications are regarded as a pillar technology for the sixth generation (6G) wireless systems, by offering multi-ten-GHz bandwidth. To overcome the short transmission distance and huge propagation loss, ultra-massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Chong Han , Longfei Yan , Jinhong Yuan

In this paper, we propose an oversampling based low-resolution aware least squares channel estimator for large-scale multiple-antenna systems with 1-bit analog-to-digital converters on each receive antenna. To mitigate the information loss…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-15 Z. Shao , L. Landau , R. de Lamare

This letter investigates the channel estimation problem in THz wireless communications where a RIS is employed to assist wireless transmission between different devices. Unlike existing studies, we consider a novel scenario where specific…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Wen-Xuan Long , Marco Moretti , Giacomo Bacci , Luca Sanguinetti

The deployment of extremely large-scale array (ELAA) brings higher spectral efficiency and spatial degree of freedom, but triggers issues on near-field channel estimation. Existing near-field channel estimation schemes primarily exploit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Zhiming Zhu , Shu Xu , Jiexin Zhang , Chunguo Li , Yongming Huang , Luxi Yang

Terahertz (THz) communications open a new frontier for the wireless network thanks to their dramatically wider available bandwidth compared to the current micro-wave and forthcoming millimeter-wave communications. However, due to the short…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen , Wenrong Chen , Yiming Du , Jun Fang

Terahertz (THz) communication is widely deemed the next frontier of wireless networks owing to the abundant spectrum resources in the THz band. Whilst THz signals suffer from severe propagation losses, a massive antenna array can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Konstantinos Dovelos , Stylianos D. Assimonis , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

In time division duplexing (TDD) millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, downlink channel state information (CSI) can be obtained from uplink channel estimation thanks to channel reciprocity. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Binggui Zhou , Xi Yang , Shaodan Ma , Feifei Gao , Guanghua Yang

This letter introduces a structured high-rank tensor approach for estimating sub-6G uplink channels in multi-user multiple-input and multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems. To tackle the difficulty of channel estimation in sub-6G bands with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Panqi Chen , Lei Cheng

This paper investigates the near-field (NF) channel estimation (CE) for extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems. Considering the pronounced NF effects in XL-MIMO communications, we first establish a joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Zhenzhou Jin , Li You , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Xiang-Gen Xia , Xiqi Gao

In reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems, the large-scale RIS introduces pronounced geometric effects that lead to the coexistence of far-field and near-field propagation.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-09 Xiaokun Tuo , Ming-Min Zhao , Xiang Wang , Changsheng You , Min-Jian Zhao

Terahertz (THz) band is envisioned for the future sixth generation wireless systems thanks to its abundant bandwidth and very narrow beamwidth. These features are one of the key enabling factors for high resolution sensing with milli-degree…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-09 Ahmet M. Elbir , Abdulkadir Celik , Ahmed M. Eltawil

An efficient channel estimation is of vital importance to help THz communication systems achieve their full potential. Conventional uplink channel estimation methods, such as least square estimation, are practically inefficient for THz…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Sagnik Bhattacharya , Abhishek K. Gupta

We present two reduced-rank channel estimators for large-scale multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) systems and analyze their mean square error (MSE) performance. Taking advantage of the channel's transform domain sparseness, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Ko-Feng Chen , Yen-Cheng Liu , Yu T. Su

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive MIMO used for access and backhaul in ultra-dense network (UDN) has been considered as the promising 5G technique. We consider such an heterogeneous network (HetNet) that ultra-dense small base stations (BSs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zhen Gao , Linglong Dai , Zhaocheng Wang

Since the beam squint and near-field effects both inherently exist in upper-6 GHz (U6G) extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems, wideband near-field channel estimation faces severe challenges, such as higher…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Zhizheng Lu , Yu Han , Xiao Li , Shi Jin , Michail Matthaiou

Compressed sensing (CS) deals with the problem of reconstructing a sparse vector from an under-determined set of observations. Approximate message passing (AMP) is a technique used in CS based on iterative thresholding and inspired by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-12 Viktoria Schram , Ali Bereyhi , Jan-Nico Zaech , Ralf R. Müller , Wolfgang H. Gerstacker

Near-field channel estimation under beam squint effect is critical to future 6G millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems equipped with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). In this paper, firstly, we design an extremely large-scale circular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Wanyuan Cai , Shunli Hong , Youming Li , Menglei Sheng , Mingjun Huang

Massive MIMO is a promising technique for future 5G communications due to its high spectrum and energy efficiency. To realize its potential performance gain, accurate channel estimation is essential. However, due to massive number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zhen Gao , Linglong Dai , Wei Dai , Byonghyo Shim , Zhaocheng Wang

The problem of wideband massive MIMO channel estimation is considered. Targeting for low complexity algorithms as well as small training overhead, a compressive sensing (CS) approach is pursued. Unfortunately, due to the Kronecker-type…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Gerhard Wunder , Ingo Roth , Axel Flinth , Mahdi Barzegar , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire , Gitta Kutyniok

In this paper, a Full Duplex (FD) eXtremely Large (XL) Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) node equipped with reconfigurable metasurface antennas at its transmission and reception sides is considered, which is optimized for simultaneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Ioannis Gavras , George C. Alexandropoulos