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This work studies the joint design of precoding and backhaul compression strategies for the downlink of cloud radio access networks. In these systems, a central encoder is connected to multiple multi-antenna base stations (BSs) via…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Onur Sahin , Shlomo Shamai

Using precoding to suppress multi-user interference is a well-known technique to improve spectra efficiency in multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems, and the pursuit of high performance and low complexity precoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Maojun Zhang , Jiabao Gao , Caijun Zhong

Many wireless systems divide the baseband processing between two locations, interconnected by a fronthaul. This paper examines the impact of fronthaul quantization on multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Starting from a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

The implementation of a Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) with Full Dimensional (FD)-MIMO is faced with the challenge of controlling the fronthaul overhead for the transmission of baseband signals as the number of horizontal and vertical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Jinkyu Kang , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang , Shlomo Shamai

Aiming at maximizing the achievable sum-rate of wideband multiuser mmWave massive MIMO systems, the hybrid precoding is studied. Since each computation of the achievable sum-rate can be performed only after the analog precoder and digital…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-08 Xuyao Sun , Chenhao Qi

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

This paper studies the optimal bit allocation for shape-gain vector quantization of wireless channels in multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink systems based on linear precoding. Our design minimizes the mean…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-30 Muhammad Nazmul Islam , Raviraj Adve , Behrouz Khoshnevis

Recently, multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) systems with low-resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs) has received considerable attention, owing to the capability of dramatically reducing the hardware cost. Besides,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-16 Lei Chu , Fei Wen , Robert Caiming Qiu

Massive multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is foreseen to be one of the key technologies in fifth-generation wireless communication systems. In this paper, we investigate the problem of downlink precoding for a narrowband…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Sven Jacobsson , Giuseppe Durisi , Mikael Coldrey , Tom Goldstein , Christoph Studer

Cloud RAN (C-RAN) is a promising enabler for distributed massive MIMO systems, yet is vulnerable to its fronthaul congestion. To cope with the limited fronthaul capacity, this paper proposes a hybrid analog-digital precoding design that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Jihong Park , Dong Min Kim , Elisabeth De Carvalho , Carles Navarro Manchón

We consider fronthaul-limited generalized zeroforcing-based cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems with multiple-antenna users and multipleantenna access points (APs) relying on both cooperative beamforming (CB)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zahra Mobini , Ahmet Hasim Gokceoglu , Li Wang , Gunnar Peters , Hien Quoc Ngo

Hybrid beamforming is known to be a cost-effective and wide-spread solution for a system with large-scale antenna arrays. This work studies the optimization of the analog and digital components of the hybrid beamforming solution for remote…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Jaein Kim , Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Inkyu Lee , Shlomo Shamai

Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) has been studied for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MUMIMO) systems especially in the presence of imperfect channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter. However, its precoding designs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Wentao Zhou , Yijie Mao , Di Zhang , Mérouane Debbah , Inkyu Lee

User-centric (UC) based cell-free (CF) structures can provide the benefits of coverage enhancement for millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems, which is regarded as the key technology of the reliable and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yingrong Zhong , Yashuai Cao , Tiejun Lv

Wireless positioning systems that are implemented by means of a Cloud Radio Access Networks (C-RANs) may provide cost-effective solutions, particularly for indoor localization. In a C-RAN, the baseband processing, including localization, is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Seongah Jeong , Osvaldo Simeone , Alexander Haimovich , Joonhyuk Kang

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is considered as an indispensable technique for the next-generation backhaul/fronthaul network thanks to its large transmission bandwidth. Especially for heterogeneous network (HetNet), the mmWave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Yiwei Sun , Zhen Gao , Hua Wang , Di Wu

Precoding design based on weighted sum-rate (WSR) maximization is a fundamental problem in downlink multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems. While the weighted minimum mean-square error (WMMSE) algorithm is a standard…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Xi Gao , Akang Wang , Junkai Zhang , Qihong Duan , Jiang Xue

This paper investigates the fronthaul compression problem in a user-centric cloud radio access network, in which single-antenna users are served by a central processor (CP) cooperatively via a cluster of remote radio heads (RRHs). To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Ruihua Qiao , Tao Jiang , Wei Yu

We consider a cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system and investigate the system performance for the case when the quantized version of the estimated channel and the quantized received signal are available at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Manijeh Bashar , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Alister G. Burr , Hien Quoc Ngo , Merouane Debbah

Block diagonalization (BD) based precoding techniques are well-known linear transmit strategies for multiuser MIMO (MU-MIMO) systems. By employing BD-type precoding algorithms at the transmit side, the MU-MIMO broadcast channel is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 K. Zu , R. C. de Lamare , M. Haardt