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Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications provide great potential for next-generation cellular networks to meet the demands of fast-growing mobile data traffic with plentiful spectrum available. However, in a mmWave cellular system, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Xianfu Chen , Pei Liu , Hang Liu , Celimuge Wu , Yusheng Ji

Recently, a mmWave-based access and backhaul integration heterogeneous networks (HetNets) architecture (mABHetNets) has been envisioned to provide high wireless capacity.Since the access link and the backhaul link share the same mmwave…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Chenwu Zhang , Hao Wu , Hancheng Lu , Jinxue Liu

Mobility and blockage are two critical challenges in wireless transmission over millimeter-wave (mmWave) and Terahertz (THz) bands. In this paper, we investigate network massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Li You , Xu Chen , Xiaohang Song , Fan Jiang , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao , Gerhard Fettweis

Massive MIMO can greatly increase both spectral and transmit-energy efficiency. This is achieved by allowing the number of antennas and RF chains to grow very large. However, the challenges include high system complexity and hardware energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xiang Gao , Ove Edfors , Fredrik Tufvesson , Erik G. Larsson

This paper investigates the application of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) to improve fronthaul link survivability in cell-free massive MIMO (CF mMIMO) systems. To enhance the fronthaul survivability, two complementary mechanisms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zhenyu Li , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

We consider a distributed multiple-input multiple-output (D-MIMO) testbed in which, to enable coherent-phase transmission without over-the-air synchronization, the remote radio heads (RRHs) are connected to a central unit via a 1-bit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Lise Aabel , Giuseppe Durisi , Frida Olofsson , Erik Börjeson , Mikael Coldrey , Christian Fager

The use of extremely high frequency (EHF) or millimeter-wave (mmWave) band has attracted significant attention for the next generation wireless access networks. As demonstrated by recent measurements, mmWave frequencies render themselves…

At millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies, the higher cost and power consumption of hardware components in multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) systems do not allow beamforming entirely at the baseband with a separate radio frequency (RF)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-27 Aryan Kaushik , John Thompson , Evangelos Vlachos

The cost of radio frequency (RF) chains is the biggest drawback of massive MIMO millimeter wave networks. By employing spatial modulation (SM), it is possible to implement lower number of RF chains than transmit antennas but still achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Merve Yüzgeçcioglu , Eduard Jorswieck

Wireless backhaul communication has been recently realized with large antennas operating in the millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency band and implementing highly directional beamforming. In this paper, we focus on the alignment problem of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-13 George C. Alexandropoulos

Large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems can bring substantial improvement in spectral efficiency and/or energy efficiency, due to the excessive degrees-of-freedom and huge array gain. However, large-scale…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-20 Xinlin Zhang , Michail Matthaiou , Mikael Coldrey , Emil , Björnson

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis and performance enhancement of short block length channel detection incorporating training information. The current communication systems' short block length channel detection typically consists…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Mody Sy , Raymond Knopp

In this paper, we investigate the system performance of a multi-cell multi-user (MU) hybrid millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network adopting the channel estimation algorithm proposed in [1] for channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-30 Lou Zhao , Zhiqiang Wei , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan , Mark C. Reed

Artificial intelligence approaches for base-band processing for radio receivers have demonstrated significant performance gains. Most of the proposed methods are characterized by high compute and memory requirements, hindering their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Mahdi Abdollahpour , Marco Bertuletti , Yichao Zhang , Yawei Li , Luca Benini , Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli

We consider a Fog Radio Access Network (F-RAN) with a Base Band Unit (BBU) in the cloud and multiple cache-enabled enhanced Remote Radio Heads (eRRHs). The system aims at delivering contents on demand with minimal average latency from a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-23 Jihwan Moon , Osvaldo Simeone , Seok-Hwan Park , Inkyu Lee

Terahertz wireless backhaul is expected to meet the high-speed backhaul requirements of future ultra-dense networks using millimeter-wave (mmWave) base stations (BSs). In order to achieve higher network capacity with limited resources and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Lei Wang , Bo Ai , Yong Niu , Haiyan Jiang , Shiwen Mao , Zhangdui Zhong , Ning Wang

Popular content caching is expected to play a major role in efficiently reducing backhaul congestion and achieving user satisfaction in next generation mobile radio systems. Consider the downlink of a cache-enabled cloud radio access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Oussama Dhifallah , Hayssam Dahrouj , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Typical receiver processing, targeting always the best achievable bit error rate performance, can result in a waste of resources, especially, when the transmission conditions are such that the best performance is orders of magnitude better…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Konstantinos Nikitopoulos , Gerd Ascheid

We present a novel approach for low-complexity equalizer design well-suited for cellular massive MIMO systems. Our design allows to exploit the channel structure in terms of covariance matrices to improve the performance in the face of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-01 David Neumann , Thomas Wiese , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

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