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Terahertz (THz) extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) is considered a key enabling technology for 6G and beyond due to its advantages such as wide bandwidth and high beam gain. As the frequency and array size increase, users are more likely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Huixin Xu , Jianhua Zhang , Pan Tang , Hongbo Xing , Chong Han , Lei Tian , Qixing Wang , Guangyi Liu

Extremely large-scale massive MIMO (XL-MIMO) has been reviewed as a promising technology for future wireless communications. The deployment of XL-MIMO, especially at high-frequency bands, leads to users being located in the near-field…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Xiangyu Zhang , Zening Wang , Haiyang Zhang , Luxi Yang

The recently commercialized fifth-generation (5G) wireless communication networks achieved many improvements, including air interface enhancement, spectrum expansion, and network intensification by several key technologies, such as massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Hengtao He , Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

To explore the full potential of ultra-massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems, it is fundamental to understand new ultra-massive MIMO channel characteristics and establish pervasive channel models. On this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Rui Feng , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Jie Huang , Xiqi Gao

Extremely large antenna array (ELAA) is a common feature of several key candidate technologies for sixth-generation mobile networks (6G), such as ultra-massive multiple-input-multiple-output (UM-MIMO), cell-free massive MIMO, reconfigurable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Mingyao Cui , Zidong Wu , Yu Lu , Xiuhong Wei , Linglong Dai

XL-MIMO promises to provide ultrahigh data rates in Terahertz (THz) spectrum. However, the spherical-wavefront wireless transmission caused by large aperture array presents huge challenges for channel state information (CSI) acquisition.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Xu Shi , Jintao Wang , Zhi Sun , Jian Song

Extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA) is promising as one of the key ingredients for the sixth generation (6G) of wireless communications. The electromagnetic propagation of spherical wavefronts introduces an additional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Xu Shi , Xuehan Wang , Jingbo Tan , Jintao Wang

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is capable of supporting extremely high system capacities with large numbers of users. In this work, we build a framework for the analysis and low-complexity design of XL-MIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-13 Kangda Zhi , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kok Keong Chai , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Robert Schober , Xiaohu You

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is a promising technique to enable versatile applications for future wireless communications.To realize the huge potential performance gain, accurate channel state information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Hao Lei , Jiayi Zhang , Huahua Xiao , Xiaodan Zhang , Bo Ai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

At the dawn of the next-generation wireless systems and networks, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) has been envisioned as one of the enabling technologies. With the continued success of being applied in the 5G and beyond, the…

Large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) holds great promise for the fifth-generation (5G) and future communication systems. In near-field scenarios, the spherical wavefront model is commonly utilized to accurately depict the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Hao Jiang , Wangqi Shi , Xiao Chen , Qiuming Zhu , Zhen Chen

Wireless communications with extremely large-scale array (XL-array) correspond to systems whose antenna sizes are so large that conventional modelling assumptions, such as uniform plane wave (UPW) impingement, are longer valid. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Haiquan Lu , Yong Zeng

Deploying antenna arrays with an asymptotically large aperture will be central to achieving the theoretical gains of massive MIMO in beyond-5G systems. Such extra-large MIMO (XL-MIMO) systems experience propagation conditions which are not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Lucas N. Ribeiro , Stefan Schwarz , Martin Haardt

The spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) greatly increase in the near-field region of millimeter wave or terahertz multiple-input multiple-output communications with extremely large antenna arrays (XL-MIMO). To employ the increased spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Shuaishuai Guo , Kaiqian Qu

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems are capable of improving spectral efficiency by employing far more antennas than conventional massive MIMO at the base station (BS). However, beam training in multiuser…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Wang Liu , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Jiangzhou Wang , Robert Schober , Lajos Hanzo

In near-field extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems, spherical wavefront propagation expands the traditional beam codebook into the joint angular-distance domain, rendering conventional beam training…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Mengyuan Li , Qianfan Lu , Jiachen Tian , Hongjun Hu , Yu Han , Xiao Li , Chao-kai Wen , Shi Jin

Future sixth-generation (6G) systems are expected to leverage extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) technology, which significantly expands the range of the near-field region. While accurate channel estimation is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Shicong Liu , Xianghao Yu , Zhen Gao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

The synthesis of Airy-profiled wavefronts has emerged as a pivotal paradigm for advanced electromagnetic engineering, attributed to their intrinsic non-diffractive propagation, transverse self-acceleration, and structural self-healing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Zhizheng Lu , Yu Han , Ruirui Sun , Jiali Nie , Shi Jin

To meet the future demand for huge traffic volume of wireless data service, the research on the fifth generation (5G) mobile communication systems has been undertaken in recent years. It is expected that the spectral and energy efficiencies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Dongming Wang , Yu Zhang , Hao Wei , Xiaohu You , Xiqi Gao , Jiangzhou Wang

Near-field propagation in extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) enlarges the beam training (BT) search space by introducing an additional range dimension, which makes conventional codebook-based beam sweeping prohibitively expensive under…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Xinyang Li , Songjie Yang , Xiang Ling , Jianhui Song , Yibo Wang , Hua Chen