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The "near-field" propagation modeling of wireless channels is necessary to support sixth-generation (6G) technologies, such as intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), that are enabled by large aperture antennas and higher frequency carriers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Navneet Agrawal , Ehsan Tohidi , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Sławomir Stańczak

In this paper, we propose an oversampling based low-resolution aware least squares channel estimator for large-scale multiple-antenna systems with 1-bit analog-to-digital converters on each receive antenna. To mitigate the information loss…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-15 Z. Shao , L. Landau , R. de Lamare

Channel estimation is fundamental to wireless communications, yet it becomes increasingly challenging in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems where base stations employ hundreds of antennas. Traditional least-squares…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Pinjun Zheng , Md. Jahangir Hossain , Anas Chaaban

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems are a key technology for future wireless networks, but the large array aperture naturally creates a hybrid-field (HF) propagation regime in which far-field (FF)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 David William Marques Guerra , Taufik Abrao

Extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (XL-RISs) have emerged as a promising technology for millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications. However, the exceedingly large aperture of XL-RISs renders the RIS-user links likely to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Erkang Dong , Taihao Zhang , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Jiangzhou Wang

Millimeter wave/Terahertz (mmWave/THz) communication with extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAAs) offers a promising solution to meet the escalating demand for high data rates in next-generation communications. A large array aperture,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-30 Hongwei Wang , Jun Fang , Huiping Duan , Hongbin Li

Extremely Large-scale Array (ELAA) is considered a frontier technology for future communication systems, pivotal in improving wireless systems' rate and spectral efficiency. As ELAA employs a multitude of antennas operating at higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Jiali Nie , Yuanhao Cui , Zhaohui Yang , Weijie Yuan , Xiaojun Jing

This paper presents key performance metrics for near-field communication and sensing systems and their scaling behavior as a function of the antenna array aperture. Analytical expressions are derived for several standard array geometries to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Marcin Wachowiak , André Bourdoux , Sofie Pollin

Future Terahertz communications exhibit significant potential in accommodating ultra-high-rate services. Employing extremely large-scale array antennas is a key approach to realize this potential, as they can harness substantial beamforming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Songjie Yang , Yizhou Peng , Wanting Lyu , Ya Li , Hongjun He , Zhongpei Zhang , Chau Yuen

Extremely large aperture arrays (ELAAs) and millimeter-wave (mmWave) technologies are essential for achieving high data rates in future wireless communication systems. To perform precise beamforming, these systems require accurate channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Heling Zhang , Xiujun Zhang , Xiaofeng Zhong , Shidong Zhou

The recently introduced atomic norm minimization (ANM) framework for parameter estimation is a promising candidate towards low overhead channel estimation in wireless communications. However, previous works on ANM-based channel estimation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Stelios Stefanatos , Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai , Gerhard Wunder

Accurate understanding of electromagnetic propagation properties in real environments is necessary for efficient design and deployment of cellular systems. In this paper, we show a method to estimate high-resolution channel parameters with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Junshi Chen , Russ Whiton , Xuhong Li , Fredrik Tufvesson

In the sixth-generation (6G), the extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is considered a promising enabling technology. With the further expansion of array element number and frequency bands, near-field effects will…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Haiyang Miao , Jianhua Zhang , Pan Tang , Lei Tian , Weirang Zuo , Qi Wei , Guangyi Liu

This paper studies wideband channel estimation for OFDM systems assisted by extremely large RIS (XL-RIS). Due to the large aperture of XL-RISs, the user equipment may operate in the near-field region, while the base station-XL-RIS link…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Lanqing Zhi , Hongwei Wang , Lingxiang Li , Zhi Chen

Terahertz ultra-massive multiple-input multiple-output (THz UM-MIMO) is envisioned as one of the key enablers of 6G wireless systems. Due to the joint effect of its array aperture and small wavelength, the near-field region of THz UM-MIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Wentao Yu , Yifei Shen , Hengtao He , Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

This paper investigates the near-field (NF) channel estimation (CE) for extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems. Considering the pronounced NF effects in XL-MIMO communications, we first establish a joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Zhenzhou Jin , Li You , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Xiang-Gen Xia , Xiqi Gao

A method for channel estimation in wideband massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems using covariance identification is developed. The method is useful for Frequency-Division Duplex (FDD) at either sub-6GHz or millimeter wave…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 José González-Coma , Pedro Suárez-Casal , Paula M. Castro , Luis Castedo , Michael Joham

Channel estimation is essential for precoding/combining in millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. However, accurate estimation is usually difficult because the receiver can only observe the low-dimensional projection of the received…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Xiaohuan Wu , Wei-Ping Zhu , Min Lin , Jun Yan

Extremely large antenna arrays (ELAAs) are widely adopted in mmWave/THz communications to compensate for the severe path loss, wherein the channel estimation remains a significant challenge since the Rayleigh distance of ELAAs stretches to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Yiming Chen , Hongwei Wang , Lingxiang Li , Zhi Chen

This paper develops a novel channel estimation approach for multi-user millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless systems with large antenna arrays. By exploiting the inherent mmWave channel sparsity, we propose a novel simultaneous-estimation with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Matthew Kokshoorn , He Chen , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic