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In this paper, we investigate a six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA)-enabled wideband terahertz (THz) communication system with sub-connected hybrid beamforming architecture at the base station (BS). In particular, the three-dimensional…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Wencai Yan , Wanming Hao , Yajun Fan , Yabo Guo , Qingqing Wu , Xingwang Li

Analog beamforming holds great potential for future terahertz (THz) communications due to its ability to generate high-gain directional beams with low-cost phase shifters. However, conventional analog beamforming may suffer substantial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Yike Xie , Weidong Mei , Dong Wang , Yingqi Wen , Zhi Chen , Jun Fang , Wei Guo , Boyu Ning

Hybrid beamforming for frequency-selective channels is a challenging problem as the phase shifters provide the same phase shift to all of the subcarriers. The existing approaches solely rely on the channel's frequency response and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Sohail Payami , Mathini Sellathurai , Konstantinos Nikitopoulos

Hybrid analog and digital (HAD) beamforming has been recently receiving considerable deserved attention for a practical implementation on the large-scale antenna systems. As compared to full digital beamforming, partial-connected HAD…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Mohammed A. Almagboul , Feng Shu , Yaolu Qin , Xiaobo Zhou , Jin Wang , Yuwen Qian , Kingsley Jun Zou

Terahertz (THz) communication systems suffer severe blockage issues, which may significantly degrade the communication coverage and quality. Bending beams, capable of adjusting their propagation direction to bypass obstacles, have recently…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Aoran Liu , Weidong Mei , Peilan Wang , Dong Wang , Ya Fei Wu , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning

Future multi-input multi-output (MIMO) wireless communications systems will use beamforming as a first-step towards realizing the capacity requirements necessitated by the exponential increase in data demands. The focus of this work is on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Dennis Ogbe , David J. Love , Vasanthan Raghavan

Full-duplex (FD) systems have emerged as an es- sential enabling technology to further increase the data rate of wireless communication systems. The key idea of FD is to serve multiple users over the same bandwidth with a base station (BS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Van-Dinh Nguyen , Hieu V. Nguyen , Chuyen T. Nguyen , Oh-Soon Shin

Beamforming design has been widely investigated for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems with full-duplex (FD) sensing and half-duplex (HD) communication. To achieve higher spectral efficiency, in this paper, we extend…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Zhenyao He , Wei Xu , Hong Shen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Yonina C. Eldar , Xiaohu You

A wireless network serving multiple users in the millimeter-wave or the sub-terahertz band by a base station is considered. High-throughput multi-user hybrid-transmit beamforming is conceived by maximizing the minimum rate of the users. For…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-27 W. Zhu , H. D. Tuan , E. Dutkiewicz , H. V. Poor , L. Hanzo

Hybrid beamforming (HBF) transceiver architectures based on frequency-independent phase shifters (PS-HBF) are sensitive to the phases and physical directions with limited capability to compensate for the detrimental effects of the beam…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-27 Mengyuan Ma , Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Markku Juntti

In this paper we study energy efficient joint power allocation and beamforming for coordinated multicell multiuser downlink systems. The considered optimization problem is in a non-convex fractional form and hard to tackle. We propose to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-09 He Shiwen , Huang Yongming , Jin Shi , Yang Luxi

Near-field spherical wavefronts enable spotlight-like beam focusing to mitigate unintended energy leakage, creating new opportunities for physical-layer security (PLS). However, under hybrid analog-digital (HAD) antenna architectures,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jiasi Zhou , Huiyun Xia , Chuan Wu , Chintha Tellambura

In this paper, we investigate the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided terahertz (THz) communication system with the sparse radio frequency chains antenna structure at the base station (BS). To overcome the beam split of the BS,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Gangcan Sun , Wencai Yan , Wanming Hao , Chongwen Huang , Chau Yuen

Terahertz (THz) communications with multi-GHz bandwidth are envisioned as a key technology for 6G systems. Ultra-massive (UM) MIMO with hybrid beamforming architectures are widely investigated to provide a high array gain to overcome the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Longfei Yan , Yuhang Chen , Chong Han , Jinhong Yuan

For 5G it will be important to leverage the available millimeter wave spectrum. To achieve an approximately omni- directional coverage with a similar effective antenna aperture compared to state of the art cellular systems, an antenna array…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Kilian Roth , Josef A. Nossek

This letter studies how the imperfect resolution of near-field beamforming, the key feature of near-field communications, can be used to improve the throughput and connectivity of wireless networks. In particular, a hybrid non-orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Zhiguo Ding , H. Vincent Poor

3D beamforming is a promising approach for interference coordination in cellular networks which brings significant improvements in comparison with conventional 2D beamforming techniques. This paper investigates the problem of joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-16 Soheil Khavari Moghaddam , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

In this paper, we consider a non-orthogonal multiple access cognitive radio network, where a full-duplex multi-antenna relay assists transmission from a base station (BS) to a cognitive far user, whereas, at the same time, the BS transmits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Mohammadali Mohammadi , Batu K. Chalise , Azar Hakimi , Himal A. Suraweera , Zhiguo Ding

The novel concept of near-field non-orthogonal multiple access (NF-NOMA) communications is proposed. The near-filed beamfocusing enables NOMA to be carried out in both angular and distance domains. Two novel frameworks are proposed, namely,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Jiakuo Zuo , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

In this article, we study the joint communication and sensing (JCAS) paradigm in the context of millimeter-wave (mm-wave) mobile communication networks. We specifically address the JCAS challenges stemming from the full-duplex operation and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Carlos Baquero Barneto , Taneli Riihonen , Sahan Damith Liyanaarachchi , Mikko Heino , Nuria González-Prelcic , Mikko Valkama