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The beamforming optimization in continuous aperture array (CAPA)-based multi-user communications is studied. In contrast to conventional spatially discrete antenna arrays, CAPAs can exploit the full spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Zhaolin Wang , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu

Continuous aperture arrays (CAPAs) provide a theoretical upper bound on the performance of densely packed antenna arrays, but their analysis is limited by the lack of closed-form signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) distributions under realistic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Amy S. Inwood , Abdulla Firag , Peter J. Smith , Michail Matthaiou

The performance of linear receive beamforming in continuous-aperture array (CAPA)-based uplink communications is analyzed. Three continuous beamforming techniques are proposed under the criteria of maximum-ratio combining (MRC),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Xingqi Zhang , Yuanwei Liu

We derive bounds on the noncoherent capacity of a very general class of multiple-input multiple-output channels that allow for selectivity in time and frequency as well as for spatial correlation. The bounds apply to peak-constrained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-01-29 Ulrich G. Schuster , Giuseppe Durisi , Helmut Bölcskei , H. Vincent Poor

The phenomenon of mutual coupling in continuous aperture arrays (CAPAs) is studied. First, a general physical model for the phenomenon that accounts for both polarization and surface dissipation losses is developed. Then, the unipolarized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zhaolin Wang , Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Yuanwei Liu

The proposed research performs an analysis of the capacity higher-order statistics for a single-input multiple-output multiantenna wireless communication system equipped with a maximum-ratio combining scheme. It was assumed that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Aleksey S. Gvozdarev

Characterizing the capacity region of multi-source wireless relay networks is one of the fundamental issues in network information theory. The problem is, however, quite challenging due to inter-user interference when there exist multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Sang-Woon Jeon , Sae-Young Chung

This paper examines the uplink user capacity in a two-tier code division multiple access (CDMA) system with hotspot microcells when user terminal power is limited and the wireless channel is finitely-dispersive. A finitely-dispersive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Shalinee Kishore , Larry J. Greenstein , H. Vincent Poor , Stuart C. Schwartz

This paper investigates a multiuser millimeter-wave (mmWave) uplink system in which each user is equipped with a multi-antenna fluid antenna system (FAS) while the base station (BS) has multiple fixed-position antennas. Our primary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Hao Xu , Kai-Kit Wong , Wee Kiat New , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Gui Zhou , Ross Murch , Chan-Byoung Chae , Yongxu Zhu , Shi Jin

This paper considers the multi-way relay channel (MWRC) where multiple users exchange messages via a single relay. The capacity region is derived for a special class of MWRCs where (i) the uplink and the downlink are separated in the sense…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-10 Lawrence Ong , Sarah J. Johnson

We consider multi-hop multiple access (MAC) and broadcast channels (BC) where communication takes place with the assistance of relays that amplify and forward (AF) their received signals. For a two hop parallel AF relay MAC, assuming a sum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Syed A. Jafar , Krishna S. Gomadam

This paper proposes a distributed continuous aperture array (D CAPA) to support simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) to multiple information users (IUs) and energy users (EUs). Each metasurface supports continuous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Muhammad Zeeshan Mumtaz , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

This paper addresses, for the first time, the uplink performance optimization of multi-user pinching-antenna (PA) systems, recently developed for next-generation wireless networks. By leveraging the unique capabilities of PAs to dynamically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Sotiris A. Tegos , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis

The optimal beamforming design for multi-user continuous aperture array (CAPA) systems is proposed. In contrast to conventional spatially discrete array (SPDA), the beamformer for CAPA is a continuous function rather than a discrete vector…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Zhaolin Wang , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu

This paper studies multi-user wireless powered communication networks, where energy constrained users charge their energy storages by scavenging energy of the radio frequency signals radiated from a hybrid access point (H-AP). The energy is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Hoon Lee , Kyoung-Jae Lee , Hanjin Kim , Bruno Clerckx , Inkyu Lee

Extremely large-scale array (XL-array) has emerged as a promising technology to enable near-field communications for achieving enhanced spectrum efficiency and spatial resolution, by drastically increasing the number of antennas. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Cong Zhou , Changsheng You , Haodong Zhang , Li Chen , Shuo Shi

In this paper we study the capacity region of the multi-pair bidirectional (or two-way) wireless relay network, in which a relay node facilitates the communication between multiple pairs of users. This network is a generalization of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Salman Avestimehr , Amin Khajehnejad , Aydin Sezgin , Babak Hassibi

This paper aims to characterize the capacity limits of a wireless cellular network with a full-duplex (FD) base-station (BS) and half-duplex user terminals, in which three independent messages are communicated: the uplink message $m_1$ from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Kaiming Shen , Reza K. Farsani , Wei Yu

Extensive research has been done on studying the capacity of wireless multi-hop networks. These efforts have led to many sophisticated and customized analytical studies on the capacity of particular networks. While most of the analyses are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Guoqiang Mao , Zihuai Lin , Xiaohu Ge , Yang Yang

This paper considers the two-way relay channel (TWRC) where two users communicate via a relay. For the restricted TWRC where the uplink from the users to the relay is any deterministic function and the downlink from the relay to the users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-13 Lawrence Ong , Sarah J. Johnson