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Extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is a promising technology to empower the next-generation communications. However, XL-MIMO, which is still in its early stage of research, has been designed with a variety of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Zhe Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Wei E. I. Sha , Bo Ai , Dusit Niyato , Mérouane Debbah

In this letter, we propose a new conformal array architecture, called extremely large-scale uniform arc array (XL-UAA), to improve near-field communication performance. Specifically,under the non-uniform spherical wavefront channel model,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Guoyu Li , Changsheng You , Guanyu Shang , Shaochuan Wu

Extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAAs) enable high spatial resolution and multiplexing, especially for user equipments (UEs) in the radiative near-field. To reduce hardware cost, modular ELAA architectures with distributed baseband…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

Near-field communication comes to be an indispensable part of the future sixth generation (6G) communications at the arrival of the forth-coming deployment of extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems. Due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Haochen Wu , Liyang Lu , Zhaocheng Wang

The deployment of extremely large-scale array (ELAA) brings higher spectral efficiency and spatial degree of freedom, but triggers issues on near-field channel estimation. Existing near-field channel estimation schemes primarily exploit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Zhiming Zhu , Shu Xu , Jiexin Zhang , Chunguo Li , Yongming Huang , Luxi Yang

In this paper, we show that an eXtremely Large (XL) Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) wireless system with appropriate analog combining components exhibits the properties of a universal function approximator, similar to a feedforward…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Kyriakos Stylianopoulos , George C. Alexandropoulos

Extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA) systems emerge as a promising technology in beyond 5G and 6G wireless networks to support the deployment of distributed architectures. This paper explores the use of ELAAs to enable joint…

Short range channels commonly arise in millimeter wave (mmWave) wearable settings, where the length of the antenna arrays can be comparable to the distance between the radios. Conventional mmWave MIMO channel estimation techniques based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-24 Jarkko Kaleva , Nitin Jonathan Myers , Antti Tölli , Robert W. Heath

Holographic massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), in which a spatially continuous surface is being used for signal transmission and reception, have emerged as a promising solution for improving the coverage and data rate of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Mojtaba Ghermezcheshmeh , Vahid Jamali , Haris Gacanin , Nikola Zlatanov

In a realistic wireless environment, the multi-antenna channel usually exhibits spatially correlation fading. This is more emphasized when a large number of antennas is densely deployed, known as holographic massive MIMO (multiple-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

This paper investigates wireless communications based on a new antenna array architecture, termed modular extremely large-scale array (XL-array), where an extremely large number of antenna elements are regularly arranged on a common…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Xinrui Li , Haiquan Lu , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

High-rank line-of-sight (LOS) MIMO systems have attracted considerable attention for millimeter wave and THz communications. The small wavelengths in these frequencies enable spatial multiplexing with massive data rates at long distances.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Yaqi Hu , Mingsheng Yin , Sundeep Rangan , Marco Mezzavilla

In pursuit of enhanced quality of service and higher transmission rates, communication within the mid-band spectrum, such as bands in the 6-15 GHz range, combined with extra large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO), is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Jiachen Tian , Yu Han , Xiao Li , Shi Jin , Chao-Kai Wen

Future wireless systems are expected to employ extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) arrays at high carrier frequencies, where near-field propagation makes the channel depend jointly on angle and distance. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Maral Safari , Italo Atzeni

In this paper, we propose a novel architecture for a lens antenna array (LAA) designed to work with a small number of antennas and enable angle-of-arrival (AoA) estimation for advanced 5G vehicle-to-everything (V2X) use cases that demand…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Joo-Hyun Jo , Jae-Nam Shim , Chan-Byoung Chae , Dong Ku Kim , Robert W. Heath

Accurate channel estimation is essential for reliable communication in sub-THz extremely large (XL) MIMO systems. Deploying XL-MIMO in high-frequency bands not only increases the number of antennas, but also fundamentally alters channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Wen-Xuan Long , Marco Moretti , Michele Morelli , Luca Sanguinetti , Rui Chen

Massive multiple-input-multiple-output (M-MIMO) is a key technology for 5G networks. Within this research area, new types of deployment are arising, such as the extremely-large regime (XL- MIMO), where the antenna array at the base station…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Gabriel Avanzi Ubiali , Taufik Abrão

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

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 investigates joint channel estimation and positioning in near-field sparse extra-large multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. To achieve cooperative gains between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Zhongnian Li , Chao Zheng , Jian Xiao , Ji Wang , Gongpu Wang , Ming Zeng , Octavia A. Dobre