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Increasing the number of transmit and receive elements in multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna arrays imposes a substantial increase in hardware and computational costs. We mitigate this problem by employing a reconfigurable MIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Hamed Nosrati , Elias Aboutanios , David Smith

MIMO systems are considered as most promising for wireless communications. However, with an increasing number of radio front ends the corresponding energy consumption and costs become an issue, which can be relieved by the utilization of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Erico S. P. Lopes , Lukas T. N. Landau

We use exact enumeration to characterize the solutions of quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problems of less than 21 variables in terms of their distributions of Hamming distances to close-by solutions. We also perform experiments…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Vrinda Mehta , Fengping Jin , Kristel Michielsen , Hans De Raedt

Qubit-efficient optimization studies how large combinatorial problems can be addressed with quantum circuits whose width is far smaller than the number of logical variables. In quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO), objective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Gordon Ma , Dimitris G. Angelakis

In this paper, we develop a way to encode several NP-Complete problems in Abstract Argumentation to Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems. In this form, a solution for a QUBO problem involves minimizing a quadratic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Marco Baioletti , Francesco Santini

A novel pinching antenna system (PASS)-enabled downlink multi-user multiple-input single-output (MISO) framework is proposed. PASS consists of multiple waveguides spanning over thousands of wavelength, which equip numerous low-cost…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Xiaoxia Xu , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

A variety of hybrid analog-digital beamforming architectures have recently been proposed for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems to reduce energy consumption and the cost of implementation. In the analog processing network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Kyungchun Lee

This paper investigates antenna coding based on pixel antennas as a new degree of freedom for enhancing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless power transfer (WPT) systems. Antenna coding is closely related to the Fluid Antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Yijun Chen , Shanpu Shen , Tianrui Qiao , Hongyu Li , Jun Qian , Ross Murch

Hybrid beamforming is a promising technology to improve the energy efficiency of massive MIMO systems. In particular, subarray hybrid beamforming can further decrease power consumption by reducing the number of phase-shifters. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Hamed Hojatian , Jérémy Nadal , Jean-François Frigon , François Leduc-Primeau

From the perspective of global warming, efficiency improvement of power grids is a pressing issue. Power grids have many switching devices to control the flow of electricity. Since there is a slight resistance in the wires and power…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Masaya Takahashi , Hiroaki Nishioka , Masahiro Hirai , Hidetaka Takano

The routing and wavelength assignment with protection is an important problem in telecommunications. Given an optical network and incoming connection requests, a commonly studied variant of the problem aims to grant maximum number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Oylum Şeker , Merve Bodur , Hamed Pouya

We propose a new kernel that quantifies success for the task of computing a core-periphery partition for an undirected network. Finding the associated optimal partitioning may be expressed in the form of a quadratic unconstrained binary…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Catherine F. Higham , Desmond J. Higham , Francesco Tudisco

To solve 3SAT instances on quantum annealers they need to be transformed to an instance of Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO). When there are multiple transformations available, the question arises whether different…

This paper studies the beamforming optimization challenge in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiple-input single-output (MISO) systems, where the RIS phase configuration is discrete. Conventional optimization methods for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Rujing Xiong , Xuihui Dong , Tiebin Mi , Kai Wan , Robert Caiming Qiu

Multi-antenna technologies such as massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (massive MIMO) and beamforming are key features to enhance performance, in terms of capacity and coverage, by using a large number of antennas intelligently. With the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Jalal Rachad , Ridha Nasri , Laurent Decreusefond

Quantum annealers offer a promising hardware platform for solving combinatorial optimization problems, especially those formulated as Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO). In this work, we propose PDQUBO (Performance-Driven…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Jiayang Niu , Jie Li , Ke Deng , Mark Sanderson , Nicola Ferro , Yongli Ren

Recently, the pinching-antenna system (PASS) has emerged as a promising architecture owing to its ability to reconfigure large-scale path loss and signal phase by activating radiation points along a dielectric waveguide. However, existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Yuan Zhong , Yue Xiao , Yijia Li , Hao Chen , Xianfu Lei , Pingzhi Fan

This work proposes an electrically small 3D beamforming antenna for PHYsical Layer (PHY-layer) security. The antenna comprises two layers of stacked patch structures and is a five-mode five-port MIMO system operating around 1.85 GHz with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-23 Abel Zandamela , Nicola Marchetti , Adam Narbudowicz

Reconfigurable antennas possess the capability to dynamically adjust their fundamental operating characteristics, thereby enhancing system adaptability and performance. To fully exploit this flexibility in modern wireless communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-19 Mengzhen Liu , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Qian Liu

As contemporary quantum computers do not possess error correction, any calculation performed by these devices can be considered an involuntary approximation. To solve a problem on a quantum annealer, it has to be expressed as an instance of…