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Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Ruizhi Zhang , Yuchen Zhang , Ying Zhang

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is gaining attention as a prominent technology for enabling the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. However, the vast antenna array and the huge bandwidth introduce a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Hao Lei , Jiayi Zhang , Huahua Xiao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

The "near-field" propagation modeling of wireless channels is necessary to support sixth-generation (6G) technologies, such as intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), that are enabled by large aperture antennas and higher frequency carriers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Navneet Agrawal , Ehsan Tohidi , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Sławomir Stańczak

For millimeter-wave (mmWave) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communication systems, we propose an innovative near-field (NF) transmission framework based on dynamic metasurface antenna (DMA) technology. In this framework, a base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Yue Xiu , Yang Zhao , Songjie Yang , Yufeng Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Hongyang Du , Ning Wei

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

Beam alignment is required in millimeter wave communication to ensure high data rate transmission. However, with narrow beamwidth in massive MIMO, beam alignment could be computationally intensive due to the large number of beam pairs to be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-05 Orikumhi Igbafe , Jeongwan Kang , Henk Wymeersch , Sunwoo Kim

In the next generation of wireless systems, Massive MIMO offers high angular resolution for localization. By virtue of large number of antennas, the Angle of Arrival (AoA) of User Terminals (UTs) can be estimated with high accuracy.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Masoud Arash , Hamed Mirghasemi , Ivan Stupia , Luc Vandendorpe

Modern MIMO communication systems are almost exclusively designed under the assumption of locally plane wavefronts over antenna arrays. This is known as the far-field approximation and is soundly justified at sub-6-GHz frequencies at most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Giacomo Bacci , Luca Sanguinetti , Emil Björnson

Wideband extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is a promising technique to achieve Tbps data rates in future 6G systems through beamforming and spatial multiplexing. Due to the extensive bandwidth and the huge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Mingyao Cui , Linglong Dai , Zhaocheng Wang , Shidong Zhou , Ning Ge

Extremely large-scale arrays (XL-arrays) have emerged as a promising technology to achieve super-high spectral efficiency and spatial resolution in future wireless systems. The large aperture of XL-arrays means that spherical rather than…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 Changsheng You , Yunpu Zhang , Chenyu Wu , Yong Zeng , Beixiong Zheng , Li Chen , Linglong Dai , A. Lee Swindlehurst

This letter proposes a hybrid mechanically and electronically tunable six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) base station (BS) architecture for future wireless communication networks. Such BS consists of multiple antenna arrays that are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yuyan Zhou , Haocheng Hua , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the millimeter-wave (mmWave) near-field beam training problem to find the correct beam direction. In order to address the high complexity and low identification accuracy of existing beam training techniques, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Yuan Xu , Li Wei , Chongwen Huang , Chen Zhu , Zhaohui Yang , Jun Yang , Jiguang He , Zhaoyang Zhang , Mérouane Debbah

This paper introduces a novel smartphone-enabled localization technology for ambient Internet of Things (IoT) devices, leveraging the widespread use of smartphones. By utilizing the passive movement of a smartphone, we create a virtual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Shang-Ling Shih , Chao-Kai Wen , Chau Yuen , Shi Jin

Location-aware networks are of great importance and interest in both civil and military applications. This paper determines the localization accuracy of an agent, which is equipped with an antenna array and localizes itself using wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yanjun Han , Yuan Shen , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Moe Z. Win , Huadong Meng

The sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems are expected to adopt extremely large aperture arrays (ELAAs), novel antenna architectures, and operate in extremely high-frequency bands to meet growing data demands. ELAAs significantly increase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Wen-Xuan Long , Shengyu Ye , Marco Moretti , Michele Morelli , Luca Sanguinetti , Rui Chen , Cheng-Xiang Wang

6G wireless communication networks are expected to use extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAAs) to support higher throughput, massive connectivity, and improved system performance. ELAAs would fundamentally alter wave characteristics,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Amjad Iqbal , Ala'a Al-Habashna , Gabriel Wainer , Gary Boudreau

In this letter, we study efficient near-field beam training design for the extremely large-scale array (XL-array) communication systems. Compared with the conventional far-field beam training method that searches for the best beam direction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Yunpu Zhang , Xun Wu , Changsheng You

This paper investigates the design of channel estimation and 3D localization algorithms in a challenging scenario, where a sub-connected planar extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) communicates with multi-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Kangda Zhi , Tianyu Yang , Songyan Xue , Giuseppe Caire

The convergence of eXtremely Large (XL) antenna arrays and high-frequency bands in future wireless networks will inevitably give rise to near-field communications, localization, and sensing. Dynamic Metasurface Antennas (DMAs) have emerged…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Panagiotis Gavriilidis , George C. Alexandropoulos

This work conceives a Ring-Bayes channel learning framework that unifies Bayesian learning with near-field channel estimation in millimeter-wave (mmWave) hybrid MIMO systems. As the number of antennas scales up, users increasingly fall…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Abhisha Garg , Priya Gupta , Suraj Srivastava , Aditya Jagannatham