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Hybrid precoding is an indispensable technique to harness the full potential of a multi-user massive multiple-input, multiple-output (MU-MMIMO) system. In this paper, we propose a new hybrid precoding approach that combines digital and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Azadeh Pourkabirian , Kai Li , Photios A. Stavrou , Wei Ni

The Cloud-Radio Access Network (C-RAN) cellular architecture relies on the transfer of complex baseband signals to and from a central unit (CU) over digital fronthaul links to enable the virtualization of the baseband processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Wonju Lee , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang , Shlomo Shamai

Quantized massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems are gaining more interest due to their power efficiency. We present a new precoding technique to mitigate the multi-user interference and the quantization distortions in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Hela Jedda , Amine Mezghani , Josef A. Nossek , A. Lee Swindlehurst

This paper considers the joint precoder design problem for multiple-input single-output (MISO) systems with coordinated base stations (BSs). We consider maximization of the total sum rate with per BS antenna power constraint problem. For…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Tadilo Endeshaw Bogale , Luc Vandendorpe

Future generations of cellular systems presume to use an extremely high number of antennas to enable mm waves. Increasing the number of antennas requires a growth in connections between a remote radio head (RRH) and a baseband unit (BBU).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Roman Bychkov , Andrey Dergachev , Alexander Osinsky , Dmitry Lakontsev , Andrey Ivanov

This paper investigates the compress-and-forward scheme for an uplink cloud radio access network (C-RAN) model, where multi-antenna base-stations (BSs) are connected to a cloud-computing based central processor (CP) via capacity-limited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Yuhan Zhou , Yinfei Xu , Wei Yu , Jun Chen

This paper studies the instantaneous rate maximization and the weighted sum delay minimization problems over a K-user multicast channel, where multiple antennas are available at the transmitter as well as at all the receivers. Motivated by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-30 Hao Zhu , Narayan Prasad , Sampath Rangarajan

This work studies coarse quantization-aware BD (${\scriptstyle\mathrm{CQA-BD}}$) and coarse quantization-aware RBD (${\scriptstyle\mathrm{CQA-RBD}}$) precoding algorithms for large-scale MU-MIMO systems with coarsely quantized signals and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-15 S. F. Pinto , R. C. de Lamare

In this work we propose a fronthaul compression scheme for distributed MIMO systems with multi-antenna receivers, in which, prior to signal quantisation, dimension reduction is performed at each receiver by matched filtering the received…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Fred Wiffen , Mohammud Z. Bocus , Angela Doufexi , Woon Hau Chin

In cloud radio access networks (C-RANs), the baseband units and radio units of base stations are separated, which requires high-capacity fronthaul links connecting both parts. In this paper, we consider the delay-aware fronthaul allocation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Wei Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau , Mugen Peng

This paper develops stream combining techniques for rate-splitting (RS) multiple-antenna systems with multiple users to enhance the common rate. We propose linear combining techniques based on the Min-Max, the maximum ratio and the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-10 A. Flores , R. C. de Lamare , B. Clerckx

Due to the continuous advancements of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and multiple antenna techniques, multiuser multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) OFDM is a key enabler of both fourth and fifth generation networks.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-31 Iran M. Braga , Roberto P. Antonioli , Gabor Fodor , Yuri C. B. Silva , Carlos F. M. e Silva , Walter C. Freitas

In this paper, we consider an uplink heterogeneous cloud radio access network (H-CRAN), where a macro base station (BS) coexists with many remote radio heads (RRHs). For cost-savings, only the BS is connected to the baseband unit (BBU) pool…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Wenchao Xia , Jun Zhang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Shi Jin , Hongbo Zhu

In this paper, we study the problem of digital pre/post-coding design in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with 1-bit resolution per complex dimension. The optimal solution that maximizes the received signal-to-noise ratio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Ioannis Krikidis

For downlink transmission in massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems, conventional precoding research heavily focuses on reducing the computational complexity of precoding matrix design, while largely overlooking…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Shuai Gao , Fan Xu , Mian Li , Xinzhi Ning , Lei Qiu , Ye Yang , Qingjiang Shi

We exploit a general cluster-based network architecture for a fronthaul-limited user-centric cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system under different degrees of cooperation among the access points (APs) to achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zahra Mobini , Ahmet Hasim Gokceoglu , Li Wang , Gunnar Peters , Hyundong Shin , Hien Quoc Ngo

Limited-backhaul cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), in which the fog radio access network (F-RAN) is implemented to exchange the information between access points (APs) and the central processing unit (CPU), is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Manijeh Bashar , Hien Quoc Ngo , Alister G. Burr , Dick Maryopi , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Erik G. Larsson

The paper studies the multi-user precoding problem as a non-convex optimization problem for wireless multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) systems. In our work, we approximate the target Spectral Efficiency function with a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Evgeny Bobrov , Dmitry Kropotov , Sergey Troshin , Danila Zaev

Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) and massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) are two key enabling technologies to meet the diverse and stringent requirements of the 5G use cases. In a C-RAN system with massive MIMO, fronthaul is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-11 Jobin Francis , Gerhard Fettweis

Massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) wireless systems operating at millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies enable simultaneous wideband data transmission to a large number of users. In order to reduce the complexity of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Emre Gönültaş , Sueda Taner , Alexandra Gallyas-Sanhueza , Seyed Hadi Mirfarshbafan , Christoph Studer