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The performance of continuous aperture array (CAPA)-based wireless communications is analyzed in an uplink scenario. An analytical framework is proposed to characterize uplink CAPA-based transmission using electromagnetic field theories. On…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , Xingqi Zhang

In this paper, we propose a distributed flexible coupler antenna (FCA) array to enhance communication performance with low hardware cost. At each FCA, there is one fixed-position active antenna and multiple passive couplers that can move…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Xiaodan Shao , Chuangye Shan , Weihua Zhuang , Xuemin Shen

We study downlink beamforming in a single-cell network with a multi-antenna base station (BS) serving cache-enabled users. For a given common rate of the files in the system, we first formulate the minimum transmit power with beamforming at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Junlin Zhao , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Deniz Gündüz

This paper introduces novel transmit beamforming approaches for the cognitive radio (CR) Z-channel. The proposed transmission schemes exploit non-causal information about the interference at the SBS to re-design the CR beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Ka Lung Law , Christos Masouros , Marius Pesavento

We study downlink beamforming in a single-cell network with a multi-antenna base station serving cache-enabled users. Assuming a library of files with a common rate, we formulate the minimum transmit power with proactive caching and coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Junlin Zhao , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Deniz Gündüz

It is known that data rates in standard cellular networks are limited due to inter-cell interference. An effective solution of this problem is to use the multi-cell cooperation idea. In Cloud Radio Access Network, which is a candidate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Fehmi Emre Kadan , Ali Özgür Yılmaz

With multi-GHz bandwidth, Terahertz (THz) beamforming has drawn increasing attention in the sixth generation (6G) and beyond communications. Existing beamforming designs mainly focus on a compact antenna array where typical communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Heyin Shen , Yuhang Chen , Chong Han , Jinhong Yuan

Emerging wireless systems are evolving toward larger, denser, higher-frequency, and more reconfigurable apertures, which motivates the study of continuous-aperture arrays (CAPAs). Unlike conventional spatially discrete arrays (SPDAs), CAPAs…

In this paper we study energy efficient joint power allocation and beamforming for coordinated multicell multiuser downlink systems. The considered optimization problem is in a non-convex fractional form and hard to tackle. We propose to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-09 He Shiwen , Huang Yongming , Jin Shi , Yang Luxi

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

Movable antenna (MA) technology offers promising potential to enhance wireless communication by allowing flexible antenna movement. To maximize spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs), larger movable regions are required, which may render the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Rui Zhang

A general fading model for multipath channels between two non-parallel continuous-aperture arrays (CAPAs) is proposed. Building on this model, the performance of diversity and multiplexing achieved by CAPAs over fading channels is analyzed.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Xingqi Zhang , Yuanwei Liu

User scheduling and beamforming design are two crucial yet coupled topics for wireless communication systems. They are usually optimized separately with conventional optimization methods. In this paper, a novel cross-layer optimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Shiwen He , Zhenyu An , Jianyue Zhu , Min Zhang , Yongming Huang , Yaoxue Zhang

This paper studies the coordinated beamforming design problem for the multiple-input single-output (MISO) interference channel, assuming only channel distribution information (CDI) at the transmitters. Under a given requirement on the rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Wei-Chiang Li , Tsung-Hui Chang , Che Lin , Chong-Yung Chi

Conventional beamforming with fixed-orientation antenna (FOA) arrays may struggle to effectively enhance signal and/or suppress interference due to significant variations in antenna directive gains over different steering angles. To break…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Jie Feng , Zhenbing Liu , Junjie Dai , Hongbin Chen , Fangjiong Chen

The capacity limits of continuous-aperture array (CAPA)-based wireless communications are characterized. To this end, an analytically tractable transmission framework is established for both uplink and downlink CAPA systems. Based on this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Boqun Zhao , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang , Yuanwei Liu

In this paper, we develop various beamforming techniques for downlink transmission for multiple-input single-output (MISO) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems. First, a beamforming approach with perfect channel state information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Faezeh Alavi , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Zhiguo Ding , Alister G. Burr

In this paper, we propose closed-form precoding schemes with optimal performance for constructive interference (CI) exploitation in the multiuser multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) downlink. We first consider an optimization where we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Ang Li , Christos Masouros

This paper studies energy-efficient coordinated beamforming in multi-cell multi-user multigroup multicast multiple-input single-output systems. We aim at maximizing the network energy efficiency by taking into account the fact that some of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Oskari Tervo , Le-Nam Tran , Harri Pennanen , Symeon Chatzinotas , Markku Juntti , Björn Ottersten

This paper proposes a generalized Firefly Algorithm (FA) to solve an optimization framework having objective function and constraints as multivariate functions of independent optimization variables. Four representative examples of how the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Tuan Anh Le , Xin-She Yang