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Terahertz (THz) communications are regarded as a pillar technology for the 6G systems, by offering multi-ten-GHz bandwidth. To overcome the huge propagation loss while reducing the hardware complexity, THz ultra-massive (UM) MIMO systems…

We conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the performance of the uplink of OFDMA-based MU-MIMO systems with multi-antenna users, for three Zero-Forcing (ZF) Beamforming (BF) strategies: Coordinated-Transmit-Receive-1 (CTR1), where only the…

Integrating radio-sensing functionalities into future cell-free (CF) wireless networks promises efficient resource utilization and facilitates the seamless roll-out of applications such as public safety and smart infrastructure. While the…

6G networks are expected to provide more diverse capabilities than their predecessors and are likely to support applications beyond current mobile applications, such as virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), AI, and the Internet of Things…

We study an uplink scenario of a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system with limited capacity fronthaul links (LC-FHLs) connecting each access point (AP) to the central unit (CU), where user equipments and APs…

This letter studies a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) with multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) deployed between users and remote radio heads (RRH). Specifically, we consider the uplink transmission where each RRH quantizes the…

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Massive MIMO and C-RAN are two promising techniques for implementing future wireless communication systems, where a large number of antennas are deployed either being co-located at the base station (BS) or totally distributed at separate…

Synchronization is a fundamental procedure in cellular systems whereby an UE acquires the time and frequency information required to decode the data transmitted by a BS. Due to the necessity of using large antenna arrays to obtain the…

This study investigates a networked integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where multiple base stations (BSs), connected to a central processor (CP) via capacity-limited fronthaul links, cooperatively serve communication users…

We propose techniques for optimizing transmit beamforming in a full-duplex multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) wireless-powered communication system, which consists of two phases. In the first phase, the wireless-powered mobile station…

The main challenges in designing downlink coordinated multicast beamforming in massive multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) cellular networks are the complex computational solutions and significant fronthaul overhead for centralized…

A sequential fronthaul network, referred to as radio stripes, is a promising fronthaul topology of cell-free MIMO systems. In this setup, a single cable suffices to connect access points (APs) to a central processor (CP). Thus, radio…

At millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies, the higher cost and power consumption of hardware components in multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) systems do not allow beamforming entirely at the baseband with a separate radio frequency (RF)…

The conventional approach to the fronthaul design for cell-free massive MIMO system follows the compress-and-precode (CP) paradigm. Accordingly, encoded bits and precoding coefficients are shared by the distributed unit (DU) on the…

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) deployments are usually investigated with half-duplex nodes and high-capacity fronthaul links. To leverage the possible gains in throughput and energy efficiency (EE) of…

Deploying massive number of antennas at the base station side can boost the cellular system performance dramatically. Meanwhile, it however involves significant additional radio-frequency (RF) front-end complexity, hardware cost and power…

The rapid growth of data traffic and the emerging AI-native wireless architectures in NextG cellular systems place new demands on the fronthaul links of Cloud Radio Access Networks (C-RAN). In this paper, we investigate neural compression…

To circumvent the high path loss of mmWave propagation and reduce the hardware cost of massive multiple-input multiple-output antenna systems, full-dimensional hybrid beamforming is critical in 5G and beyond wireless communications.…

Massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems enable high spatial resolution, high spectral efficiency, and improved link reliability compared to traditional MIMO systems due to the large number of antenna elements…