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Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) systems serve the user equipments (UEs) by geographically distributed access points (APs) by means of joint transmission and reception. To limit the power consumption due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Shuaifei Chen , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Bo Ai

In this paper we consider maximum-likelihood (ML) MIMO detection under one-bit quantized observations and binary symbol constellations. This problem is motivated by the recent interest in adopting coarse quantization in massive MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Mingjie Shao , Wing-Kin Ma

Metamaterial antennas are appealing for next-generation wireless networks due to their simplified hardware and much-reduced size, power, and cost. This paper investigates the holographic multiple-input multiple-output (HMIMO)-aided…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Kangda Zhi , Tianyu Yang , Shuangyang Li , Yi Song , Tuo Wu , Giuseppe Caire

We study the problem of joint load balancing and interference mitigation in heterogeneous networks (HetNets) in which massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) macro cell base station (BS) equipped with a large number of antennas,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Trung Kien Vu , Mehdi Bennis , Sumudu Samarakoon , Mérouane Debbah , Matti Latva-aho

In this letter, we study the analogue pre/post-coding vector design for a point-to-point multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with 1-bit phase shifters. Specifically, we focus on the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) maximization problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Ioannis Krikidis

This paper addresses cooperation in a multicell environment where base stations (BSs) wish to jointly serve multiple users, under a constrained-capacity backhaul. We point out that for finite backhaul capacity a trade-off between sharing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Randa Zakhour , David Gesbert

Recently, semantic communication (SemCom) has shown great potential in significant resource savings and efficient information exchanges, thus naturally introducing a novel and practical cellular network paradigm where two modes of SemCom…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Le Xia , Yao Sun , Dusit Niyato , Lan Zhang , Muhammad Ali Imran

Recently, a mmWave-based access and backhaul integration heterogeneous networks (HetNets) architecture (mABHetNets) has been envisioned to provide high wireless capacity.Since the access link and the backhaul link share the same mmwave…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Chenwu Zhang , Hao Wu , Hancheng Lu , Jinxue Liu

This paper considers a single-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system equipped with a base station (BS) that uses one-bit quantization and investigates the energy efficiency (EE) and spectral efficiency (SE) trade-off. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Yongzhi Li , Cheng Tao , Amine Mezghani , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Liu Liu

Quantization is critical for efficiently deploying large language models (LLMs). Yet conventional methods remain hardware-agnostic, limited to bit-width constraints, and do not account for intrinsic circuit characteristics such as the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Rohan Juneja , Shivam Aggarwal , Safeen Huda , Tulika Mitra , Li-Shiuan Peh

Cell-free Massive MIMO is considered as a promising technology for satisfying the increasing number of users and high rate expectations in beyond-5G networks. The key idea is to let many distributed access points (APs) communicate with all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

In massive MIMO systems, fully digital precoding offers high performance but has significant implementation complexity and energy consumption, particularly at millimeter frequencies and beyond. Hybrid analog-digital architectures provide a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Parisa Ramezani , Alva Kosasih , Emil Björnson

Massive MIMO opens up attractive possibilities for next generation wireless systems with its large number of antennas offering spatial diversity and multiplexing gain. However, the fronthaul link that connects a massive MIMO Remote Radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Aswathylakshmi P , Radha Krishna Ganti

The limited fronthaul capacity imposes a challenge on the uplink of centralized radio access network (C-RAN). We propose to boost the fronthaul capacity of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) aided C-RAN by globally optimizing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Jiankang Zhang , Sheng Chen , Xinying Guo , Jia Shi , Lajos Hanzo

This paper investigates the resource allocation problem combined with fronthaul precoding and access link sparse precoding design in cloud radio access network (C-RAN) wireless fronthaul systems.Multiple remote antenna units (RAUs) in C-RAN…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Peng Jiang , Jiafei Fu , Pengcheng Zhu , Jiamin Li , Xiaohu You

In Part I of this paper, we proposed and analyzed a novel algorithmic framework for the minimization of a nonconvex (smooth) objective function, subject to nonconvex constraints, based on inner convex approximations. This Part II is devoted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Gesualdo Scutari , Francisco Facchinei , Lorenzo Lampariello , Peiran Song , Stefania Sardellitti

This paper studies distributed algorithms for (strongly convex) composite optimization problems over mesh networks, subject to quantized communications. Instead of focusing on a specific algorithmic design, a black-box model is proposed,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-19 Nicolò Michelusi , Gesualdo Scutari , Chang-Shen Lee

In this work, we analyze the downlink performance of a cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output system with finite capacity fronthaul links between the centralized baseband units and the access point (APs). Conditioned on the user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Priyabrata Parida , Harpreet S. Dhillon

Imagine a coverage area where each mobile device is communicating with a preferred set of wireless access points (among many) that are selected based on its needs and cooperate to jointly serve it, instead of creating autonomous cells. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

Model quantization is a widely used technique to compress and accelerate deep neural network (DNN) inference. Emergent DNN hardware accelerators begin to support mixed precision (1-8 bits) to further improve the computation efficiency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Kuan Wang , Zhijian Liu , Yujun Lin , Ji Lin , Song Han