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The growing demand for efficient delivery of common content to multiple user equipments (UEs) has motivated significant research in physical-layer multicasting. By exploiting the beamforming capabilities of massive MIMO, multicasting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Mahmoud Zaher , Emil Björnson

In this letter, we consider the coexistence and spectrum sharing between downlink multi-user multiple-input-multiple-output (MU-MIMO) communication and a MIMO radar. For a given performance requirement of the downlink communication system,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Fan Liu , Christos Masouros , Ang Li , Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

There is a demand for the same data content from several user equipments (UEs) in many wireless communication applications. Physical-layer multicasting combines the beamforming capability of massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Mahmoud Zaher , Emil Björnson

Enhancing user fairness in advanced multi-user systems like two-layer rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) is a critical yet challenging task. This letter proposes a novel movable antenna (MA) approach to address this challenge. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ji Luo , Yaxuan Chen , Guangchi Zhang , Miao Cui , Hao Fu , Changsheng You

Downlink beamforming is an essential technology for wireless cellular networks; however, the design of beamforming vectors that maximize the weighted sum rate (WSR) is an NP-hard problem and iterative algorithms are typically applied to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Jingyuan Xia , Gunduz Deniz

The max-min fairness (MMF) problem in rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) is known to be challenging due to its non-convex and non-smooth nature, as well as the coupled beamforming and common rate variables. Conventional algorithms to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Facheng Luo , Yijie Mao

In this paper, we focus on intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multi-antenna communications with transceiver hardware impairments encountered in practice. In particular, we aim to maximize the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Shulei Gong , Chunming Zhao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

As investigations on physical layer security evolve from point-to-point systems to multi-user scenarios, multi-user interference (MUI) is introduced and becomes an unavoidable issue. Different from treating MUI totally as noise in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Huiyun Xia , Yijie Mao , Bruno Clerckx , Xiaokang Zhou , Shuai Han , Cheng Li

Beamforming is one of the key techniques in millimeter wave (mmWave) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communications. Designing appropriate beamforming not only improves the quality and strength of the received signal, but also can help…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-14 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy

In this letter, we investigate the signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) maximization problem in a multi-user massive multiple-input-multiple-output (massive MIMO) system enabled with multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-06 Somayeh Aghashahi , Zolfa Zeinalpour-Yazdi , Aliakbar Tadaion , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Ahmed Elzanaty

This paper investigates an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided multi-cell multiple-input single-output (MISO) system with several multi-antenna base stations (BSs) each communicating with a single-antenna user, in which an IRS is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Hailiang Xie , Jie Xu , Ya-Feng Liu

In this letter, we investigate a robust beamforming problem for localization-aided millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems. To handle this problem, we propose a novel restriction and relaxation (R&R) method. The proposed R&R method…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Junchang Sun , Shuai Ma , Shiyin Li , Ruixin Yang , Minghui Min , Gonzalo Seco-Granados

Robust beamforming design under imperfect channel state information (CSI) is a fundamental challenge in multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems, particularly when the channel estimation error statistics are unknown.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Wenzhuo Zou , Ming-Min Zhao , An Liu , Min-Jian Zhao

This paper studies a downlink multiuser transmit beamforming design under spherical channel uncertainties, using a worst-case robust formulation. This robust design problem is nonconvex. Recently, a convex approximation formulation based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Tsung-Hui Chang , Wing-Kin Ma , Chong-Yung Chi

This paper studies the problem of robust downlink beamforming design in a multiuser Multi-Input Single-Output (MISO) Cognitive Radio Network (CR-Net) in which multiple Primary Users (PUs) coexist with multiple Secondary Users (SUs). Unlike…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Ebrahim A. Gharavol , Ying-Chang Liang , Koenraad Mouthaan

Massive MIMO is currently a leading physical layer technology candidate that can dramatically enhance throughput in 5G systems, for both unicast and multicast transmission modalities. As antenna elements are becoming smaller and cheaper in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-05 Mohamed Salah Ibrahim , Aritra Konar , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos

The WMMSE beamforming algorithm is a popular approach to address the NP-hard weighted sum rate (WSR) maximization beamforming problem. Although it efficiently finds a local optimum, it requires matrix inverses, eigendecompositions, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-15 Lissy Pellaco , Joakim Jaldén

In this letter, we investigate the hybrid beamforming based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) for millimeter Wave (mmWave) multi-user (MU) multiple-input-single-output (MISO) system. A multi-agent DRL method is proposed to solve the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Qisheng Wang , Xiao Li , Shi Jin , Yijiain Chen

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is considered as an efficient method to relieve the computation burden of mobile devices. In order to reduce the energy consumption and time delay of mobile devices (MDs) in MEC, multiple users multiple input and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-07 Changfeng Ding , Jun-Bo Wang , Ming Cheng , Chuanwen Chang , Jin-Yuan Wang , Min Lin

In this paper, a downlink multiple input multiple output (MIMO) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) wireless communication system is considered. In NOMA systems, the base station has unicast data for all users, and multiple users in a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-06 Ahmet Zahid Yalcin , Mustafa Kagan Cetin , Melda Yuksel