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As a key enabling technology for 5G wireless, millimeter wave (mmWave) communication motivates the utilization of large-scale antenna arrays for achieving highly directional beamforming. However, the high cost and power consumption of RF…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Qingjiang Shi , Mingyi Hong

With multi-GHz bandwidth, Terahertz (THz) beamforming has drawn increasing attention in the sixth generation (6G) and beyond communications. Existing beamforming designs mainly focus on a compact antenna array where typical communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Heyin Shen , Yuhang Chen , Chong Han , Jinhong Yuan

Switch-based hybrid beamforming (SW-HBF) architectures are promising for realizing massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications systems because of their low cost and low power consumption. In this paper, we study the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Mengyuan Ma , Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Markku Juntti

This paper studies hybrid beamforming for active sensing applications, such as millimeter-wave or ultrasound imaging. Hybrid beamforming can substantially lower the cost and power consumption of fully digital sensor arrays by reducing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-30 Robin Rajamäki , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Visa Koivunen

As Part II of a three-part tutorial on holographic multiple-input multiple-output (HMIMO), this Letter focuses on the state-of-the-art in performance analysis and on holographic beamforming for HMIMO communications. We commence by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Jiancheng An , Chau Yuen , Chongwen Huang , Merouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor , Lajos Hanzo

Full duplex (FD) systems suffer from very high hardware cost and high power consumption to mitigate the self-interference (SI) in the analog domain. Moreover, in millimeter wave (mmWave) they rely on hybrid beamforming (HYBF) as a signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Chandan Kumar Sheemar , Stefano Tomasin , Dirk Slock , Symeon Chatzinotas

It is well known that there is inherent radiation pattern distortion for the commercial base station antenna array, which usually needs three antenna sectors to cover the whole space. To eliminate pattern distortion and further enhance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Ran Ji , Chongwen Huang , Xiaoming Chen , Wei E. I. Sha , Linglong Dai , Jiguang He , Zhaoyang Zhang , Chau Yuen , Mérouane Debbah

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications have been considered as a key technology for next generation cellular systems and Wi-Fi networks because of its advances in providing orders-of-magnitude wider bandwidth than current wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Zihuan Wang , Ming Li , Qian Liu , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In this paper, we develop a low-complexity channel estimation for hybrid millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, where the number of radio frequency (RF) chains is much less than the number of antennas equipped at each transceiver. The proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Lou Zhao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

In millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems, existing hybrid beamforming solutions generally require a large number of high-resolution phase shifters (PSs) to realize analog beamformers, which still suffer from high hardware…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-19 Ming Li , Zihuan Wang , Hongyu Li , Qian Liu , Liang Zhou

Microwave linear analog computing (MiLAC) has recently emerged as a promising architecture for analog-domain beamforming. In particular, a hybrid digital-MiLAC architecture was proposed and was shown to achieve fully-digital beamforming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Yiyang Peng , Zheyu Wu , Bruno Clerckx

Inter-operator spectrum sharing in millimeter-wave bands has the potential of substantially increasing the spectrum utilization and providing a larger bandwidth to individual user equipment at the expense of increasing inter-operator…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Hossein S. Ghadikolaei , Hadi Ghauch , Gabor Fodor , Mikael Skoglund , Carlo Fischione

We consider a single-cell scenario involving a single base station (BS) with a massive array serving multi-antenna terminals in the downlink of a mmWave channel. We present a class of multiuser user MIMO schemes, which rely on uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Zheda Li , Nadisanka Rupasinghe , Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu , Chenwei Wang , Haralabos Papadopoulos , Giuseppe Caire

Hybrid beamforming provides a promising solution to achieve high data rate transmission at millimeter waves. Implementing hybrid beamforming at a transceiver based on available channel state information is a common solution. However, many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Hsiao-Lan Chiang , Wolfgang Rave , Tobias Kadur , Gerhard Fettweis

This study considers a novel full-duplex (FD) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) system using hybrid beamforming (HBF) architecture, which allows for simultaneous uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) transmission over the same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Mobeen Mahmood , Asil Koc , Duc Tuong Nguyen , Robert Morawski , Tho Le-Ngoc

Given the high throughput requirement for 5G, merging millimeter wave technologies and multi-user MIMO seems a very promising strategy. As hardware limitations impede to realize a full digital architecture, hybrid MIMO architectures, using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Steve Blandino , Claude Desset , Cheng-Ming Chen , Andre Bourdoux , Sofie Pollin

We consider a multi-user hybrid beamforming system, where the multiplexing gain is limited by the small number of RF chains employed at the base station (BS). To allow greater freedom for maximizing the multiplexing gain, it is better if…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Junghoon Kim , Matthew Andrews

The multi-user Holographic Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output Surface (MU-HMIMOS) paradigm, which is capable of realizing large continuous apertures with minimal power consumption and of shaping radio wave propagation at will, has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Li Wei , Chongwen Huang , George C. Alexandropoulos , Wei E. I. Sha , Zhaoyang Zhang , Merouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

In mmWave massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems, hybrid digital/analog beamforming has been recognized as an economic means to overcome the severe mmWave propagation loss. To facilitate beamforming for mmWace mMIMO, there…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-19 Shijian Gao , Xiang Cheng , Liuqing Yang

Millimeter wave (mmWave) signals experience orders-of-magnitude more pathloss than the microwave signals currently used in most wireless applications. MmWave systems must therefore leverage large antenna arrays, made possible by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Omar El Ayach , Sridhar Rajagopal , Shadi Abu-Surra , Zhouyue Pi , Robert W. Heath