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In satellite constellation-based communication systems, continuous user coverage requires frequent handoffs due to the dynamic topology induced by the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. Each handoff between a satellite and ground users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yassine Afif , Mohammed Almekhlafi , Antoine Lesage-Landry , Gunes Karabulut Kurt

Low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication systems have gained increasing attention as a crucial supplement to terrestrial wireless networks due to their extensive coverage area. This letter presents a novel system design for LEO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Shining Lin , Jiancheng An , Lu Gan , Mérouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

Future wireless networks, in particular, 5G and beyond, are anticipated to deploy dense Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites to provide global coverage and broadband connectivity. However, the limited frequency band and the coexistence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yunnuo Xu , Longfei Yin , Yijie Mao , Wonjae Shin , Bruno Clerckx

This paper investigates new efficient transmission architectures for multi-satellite massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). We study the weighted sum-rate maximization problem in a multi-satellite system where multiple satellites…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Wenjing Cao , Yafei Wang , Jinshuo Zhang , Xiaofan Xu , Wenjin Wang , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

In this study, we revisit the performance analysis of distributed beamforming architectures in dense user-centric cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems in line-of-sight (LoS) scenarios. By incorporating a recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Noor Ul Ain , Lorenzo Miretti , Sławomir Stańczak

Low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication (SatCom) has emerged as a promising technology to improve wireless connectivity in global areas. Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO), an architecture proposed for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Xiangyu Li , Bodong Shang

The massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission technology has recently attracted much attention in the non-geostationary, e.g., low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication (SATCOM) systems since it can significantly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Li You , Xiaoyu Qiang , Ke-Xin Li , Christos G. Tsinos , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao , Björn Ottersten

This paper investigates the downlink (DL) transmit design for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite communication systems, where only the slow-varying statistical channel state information is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Ke-Xin Li , Li You , Jiaheng Wang , Xiqi Gao , Christos G. Tsinos , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

The use of communication satellites in medium Earth orbit (MEO) is foreseen to provide quasi-global broadband Internet connectivity in the coming networking ecosystems. Multi-user multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) digital signal…

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations are rapidly becoming essential enablers of next-generation wireless systems, offering global broadband access, high-precision localization, and reliable sensing beyond terrestrial coverage.…

This paper develops a multi-user downlink communication framework for distributed low Earth orbit satellite networks serving ground users equipped with multiple antennas. Building upon the concept of cell-free multiple-input multiple-output…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Parisa Ramezani , Emil Björnson

Connecting aerial and terrestrial users with a single base station (BS) is increasingly challenging due to the rising number of aerial users like unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Traditional BSs, designed with down-tilted beams, focus…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-10 Achiel Colpaert , Zhuangzhuang Cui , Sofie Pollin

Cooperative positioning with multiple low earth orbit (LEO) satellites is promising in providing location-based services and enhancing satellite-terrestrial communication. However, positioning accuracy is greatly affected by inter-beam…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hongtao Xv , Yaohua Sun , Yafei Zhao , Mugen Peng , Shijie Zhang

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites play an essential role in intelligent Earth observation by leveraging artificial intelligence models. However, limited onboard memory and excessive inference delay prevent the practical deployment of large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Songge Zhang , Wen Wu , Liang Li , Ye Wang , Xuemin , Shen

The issue of diminished spectral efficiency (SE) of the downlink (DL) transmission in distributed cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems poses a significant challenge in terms of user equipment (UE) performance when compared to their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Reza Roshanghias , Reza Saadat

Distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), also known as cell-free massive MIMO, emerges as a promising technology for sixth-generation (6G) systems to support uniform coverage and reliable communication. For the design and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Yingjie Xu , Michiel Sandra , Xuesong Cai , Sara Willhammar , Fredrik Tufvesson

Imagine a coverage area with many wireless access points that cooperate to jointly serve the users, instead of creating autonomous cells. Such a cell-free network operation can potentially resolve many of the interference issues that appear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (mMIMO) is one of the essential technologies introduced by the Fifth Generation (5G) of wireless communication systems. However, although mMIMO provides many benefits for wireless communications, it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Eduardo Noboro Tominaga , Onel Luiz Alcaraz López , Hirley Alves , Richard Demo Souza , Leonardo Terças

In this paper, we consider a cooperative communication network where multiple low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites provide services to multiple ground users (GUs) cooperatively at the same time and on the same frequency. The multi-satellite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Xuan Zhang , Shu Sun , Meixia Tao , Qin Huang , Xiaohu Tang

We study the design of receivers in extra-large scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) systems, i.e. systems in which the base station is equipped with an antenna array of extremely large dimensions. While XL-MIMO can significantly increase the system's…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Abolfazl Amiri , Sajad Rezaie , Carles Navarro Manchon , Elisabeth de Carvalho