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This paper addresses the problem of single snapshot Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation, which is of great importance in a wide-range of applications including automotive radar. A popular approach to achieving high angular resolution when…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Yinyan Bu , Robin Rajamäki , Anand Dabak , Rajan Narasimha , Anil Mani , Piya Pal

Antenna arrays are widely used in wireless communication, radar systems, radio astronomy, and military defense to enhance signal strength, directivity, and interference suppression. We introduce a deep learning-based optimization approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 David Lu , Lior Maman , Jackson Earls , Amir Boag , Pierre Baldi

Spatial division multiple access (SDMA) is essential to improve the spectrum efficiency for multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications. The classical SDMA for massive MIMO with hybrid precoding heavily relies on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-24 Zidong Wu , Linglong Dai

This work deals with the problem of uplink communication and localization in an integrated sensing and communication system, where users are in the near field (NF) of antenna aperture due to the use of high carrier frequency and large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Fei Liu , Zhengdao Yuan , Qinghua Guo , Yuanyuan Zhang , Zhongyong Wang , J. Andrew Zhang

This paper proposes a multi-user Spatial Division Multiplexing (SDM) near-field access scheme, inspired by the orthogonal characteristics of multi-mode vortex waves. A Reconfigurable Meta-surface (RM) is ingeniously employed as the gateway…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Yufei Zhao , Qihao Lv , Yuanbin Chen , Afkar Mohamed Ismail , Yong Liang Guan , Chau Yuen

Simultaneous sparse approximation (SSA) seeks to represent a set of dependent signals using sparse vectors with identical supports. The SSA model has been used in various signal and image processing applications involving multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Farshad G. Veshki , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

In near-field beam focusing for finite-sized arrays, focal shift is a non-negligible issue. The actual focal point often appears closer to the array than the predefined focal distance, significantly degrading the focusing performance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Jiawang Li , Yingjie Xu , Hanieh Aliakbari

Modular Arrays (MAs) are a promising architecture to enable multi-user communications in next-generation multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems based on extra-large (XL) or gigantic MIMO (gMIMO) deployments, trading off improved…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-08 José P. González-Coma , Santiago Fernández , F. Javier López-Martínez

Movable antenna (MA) is a promising technology to improve wireless communication performance by varying the antenna position in a given finite area at the transceivers to create more favorable channel conditions. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Boyu Ning , Rui Zhang

Communication in high frequencies such as millimeter wave and terahertz suffer from high path-loss and intense shadowing which necessitates beamforming for reliable data transmission. On the other hand, at high frequencies the channels are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Abbas Khalili , Sundeep Rangan , Elza Erkip

Extremely large-scale antenna arrays are poised to play a pivotal role in sixth-generation (6G) networks. Utilizing such arrays often results in a near-field spherical wave transmission environment, enabling the generation of focused beams,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Qianyu Yang , Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Nir Shlezinger , Haiyang Zhang , Davide Dardari , Baoyun Wang , Yonina C. Eldar

In this paper, we investigate multi-user modular extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) communication systems, where modular extremely large-scale uniform linear array (XL-ULA) is deployed at the base station (BS) to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Xinrui Li , Zhenjun Dong , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

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

This paper investigates the unsourced random access (URA) problem with a massive multiple-input multiple-output receiver that serves wireless devices in the near-field of radiation. We employ an uncoupled transmission protocol without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Xinyu Xie , Yongpeng Wu , Jianping An , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chengwen Xing , Wenjun Zhang

One of the most relevant challenges in future 6G wireless networks is how to support a massive spatial multiplexing of a large number of user terminals. Recently, extremely large antenna arrays (ELAAs), also referred to as extra-large MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Adrian Agustin , Xavier Mestre

In this paper, we study the problem of sparse channel estimation via a collaborative and fully distributed approach. The estimation problem is formulated in the angular domain by exploiting the spatially common sparsity structure of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Maria Trigka , Christos Mavrokefalidis , Kostas Berberidis

In this paper, pattern division multiple access with large-scale antenna array (LSA-PDMA) is proposed as a novel non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme. In the proposed scheme, pattern is designed in both beam domain and power domain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Peng Li , Yanxiang Jiang , Shaoli Kang , Fuchun Zheng , Xiaohu You

In this paper, we study efficient multi-beam training design for near-field communications to reduce the beam training overhead of conventional single-beam training methods. In particular, the array-division based multi-beam training…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-24 Cong Zhou , Changsheng You , Zixuan Huang , Shuo Shi , Yi Gong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Kaibin Huang

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

Spatial division multiple access (SDMA) is essential to improve the spectrum efficiency for multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications. The classical SDMA for massive MIMO with hybrid precoding heavily relies on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Zidong Wu , Linglong Dai