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Extremely large-scale antenna arrays are poised to play a pivotal role in sixth-generation (6G) networks. Utilizing such arrays often results in a near-field spherical wave transmission environment, enabling the generation of focused beams,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Qianyu Yang , Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Nir Shlezinger , Haiyang Zhang , Davide Dardari , Baoyun Wang , Yonina C. Eldar

The synergy between extremely large-scale antenna arrays and terahertz technology in sixth-generation networks establishes a near-field wideband transmission environment, enabling the generation of highly focused beams. To leverage this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Qianyu Yang , Haiyang Zhang , Francesco Guidi , Anna Guerra , Davide Dardari , Baoyun Wang , Yonina C. Eldar

This paper examines the number of communication modes, that is, the degrees of freedom (DoF) in a wireless line-of-sight channel comprising a small continuous linear intelligent antenna array in the near field of a large one. The framework…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Athanasios G. Kanatas , Harris K. Armeniakos , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Marco Di Renzo

This paper proposes a practical method for the definition of communication modes when antennas operate in the near-field region, by realizing ad-hoc beams exploiting the focusing capability of large antennas. The beamspace modeling proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-07 Nicolò Decarli , Davide Dardari

The use of multiantenna technologies in the near field offers the possibility of focusing the energy in spatial regions rather than just in angle. The objective of this paper is to provide a formal framework that allows to establish the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Xavier Mestre , Adrian Agustin

With the deployment of large antenna arrays at high-frequency bands, future wireless communication systems are likely to operate in the radiative near-field (NF). Unlike far-field beam steering, NF beams can be focused on a spatial region…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Ahmed Hussain , Asmaa Abdallah , Abdulkadir Celik , Ahmed M. Eltawil

The resolution is an important performance metric of near-field communication networks. In particular, the resolution of near field beamforming measures how effectively users can be distinguished in the distance-angle domain, which is one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Chenguang Rao , Zhiguo Ding , Octavia A. Dobre , Xuchu Dai

Millimeter-wave communications rely on beamforming gain from both transmitters and receivers to compensate for severe propagation loss. To achieve adequate gain, beam training is required to identify propagation directions. The main…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-06 Han Yan , Veljko Boljanovic , Danijela Cabric

In millimeter wave cellular communication, fast and reliable beam alignment via beam training is crucial to harvest sufficient beamforming gain for the subsequent data transmission. In this paper, we establish fundamental limits in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Chunshan Liu , Min Li , Stephen V. Hanly , Iain B. Collings , Philip Whiting

For wireless communications using linear large-scale antenna arrays, we define a receiving coordinate system and parameterization strategy to facilitate the study of the impact of three-dimensional position and rotation of the arrays on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Liqin Ding , Erik G. Ström , Jiliang Zhang

The performance bounds of near-field sensing are studied for circular arrays, focusing on the impact of bandwidth and array size. The closed-form Cramer-Rao bound (CRBs) for angle and distance estimation are derived, revealing the scaling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

Extremely large-scale array (XL-array) has emerged as one promising technology to improve the spectral efficiency and spatial resolution of future sixth generation (6G) wireless systems.The upsurge in the antenna number antennas renders…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Cong Zhou , Chenyu Wu , Changsheng You , Shuo Shi

With the increase of multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) array size and carrier frequency, near-field MIMO communications will become crucial in 6G wireless networks. Due to the increase of MIMO near-field range, the research of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Haiyang Miao , Jianhua Zhang , Pan Tang , Heng Wang , Lei Tian , Guangyi Liu

Future wireless connectivity is envisioned to accommodate functionalities far beyond broadband data transmission over point-to-point direct links, enabling novel scenarios, such as communication behind blockers and around corners, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Sotiris Droulias , Giorgos Stratidakis , Angeliki Alexiou

Broadband beamforming is a technique to obtain the signal with a wide range of frequencies. It maintains the signal integrity and spatial selectivity over frequencies. This is important in several applications such as microphone array,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-03 Phan Le Son

Two-dimensional (2D) waveguide-fed metasurfaces enable scalable antenna apertures through guided wave excitation of distributed radiating elements. However, the resulting non-uniform excitation challenges classical interpretations of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Panagiotis Gavriilidis , George C. Alexandropoulos

Narrow beams are key to wireless communications in millimeter wave frequency bands. Beam alignment (BA) allows the base station (BS) to adjust the direction and width of the beam used for communication. During BA, the BS transmits a number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Abbas Khalili , Shahram Shahsavari , Mohammad A. Amir Khojastepour , Elza Erkip

This paper investigates how near-field beamfocusing can be achieved using a modular linear array (MLA), composed of multiple widely spaced uniform linear arrays (ULAs). The MLA architecture extends the aperture length of a standard ULA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Alva Kosasih , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

In the present paper the analytical aspects related to the maximum invariance depth of propagation finite energy Airy-type beams are investigated, considering not only the usual exponentially dumped Airy beams but also the truncated ones.…

Optics · Physics 2013-08-06 K. Z. Nóbrega , C. A. Dartora , M. Zamboni-Rached

In this paper, we study efficient beam coverage design for multi-antenna systems in both far-field and near-field cases. To reduce the computational complexity of existing sampling-based optimization methods, we propose a new low-complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Chao Zhou , Changsheng You , Cong Zhou , Li Chen , Yi Gong , Chengwen Xing