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A multi-user fog radio access network (F-RAN) is designed for supporting content-centric services. The requested contents are partitioned into sub-contents, which are then 'beam- formed' by the remote radio heads (RRHs) for transmission to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-17 W. Zhu , H. D. Tuan , E. Dutkiewicz , Y. Fang , L. Hanzo

We study a distributed antenna system where $L$ antenna terminals (ATs) are connected to a Central Processor (CP) via digital error-free links of finite capacity $R_0$, and serve $K$ user terminals (UTs). We contribute to the subject in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-06 Song-Nam Hong , Giuseppe Caire

This paper proposes a hybrid quantum optimization framework for large-scale antenna-array beamforming with jointly optimized discrete phases and continuous amplitudes. The method combines quantum-inspired search with classical gradient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Shuai Zeng

Distributed optimization concerns the optimization of a common function in a distributed network, which finds a wide range of applications ranging from machine learning to vehicle platooning. Its key operation is to aggregate all local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Zhenyi Lin , Yi Gong , Kaibin Huang

Small-size acoustic arrays exploit spatial diversity to achieve capabilities beyond those of single-element devices, with applications ranging from teleconferencing to immersive multimedia. A key requirement for broadband array processing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Federico Miotello , Davide Albertini , Alberto Bernardini

The future wireless communications are expected to provide new use scenarios with emerging techniques. This paper focuses on vehicle to everything (V2X) network, where vehicles should cooperatively implement information obtaining, data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Chonghao Zhao

Semantic communication (SemCom) is emerging as a key technology for future sixth-generation (6G) systems. Unlike traditional bit-level communication (BitCom), SemCom directly optimizes performance at the semantic level, leading to superior…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Maojun Zhang , Guangxu Zhu , Richeng Jin , Xiaoming Chen , Qingjiang Shi , Caijun Zhong , Kaibin Huang

Motivated by massive deployment of low data rate Internet of things (IoT) and ehealth devices with requirement for highly reliable communications, this paper proposes receive beamforming techniques for the uplink of a single-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Majid Bavand , Steven D. Blostein

In this paper, we focus on a typical cooperative communication system with one pair of source and destination, where a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flying from a start location to an end location serves as a mobile relay. To efficiently…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Sixing Yin , Jing Tan , Lihua Li

This paper considers joint beamformer design towards maximizing the mutual information in a coherent wireless sensor network with noisy observation and multiple antennae. Leveraging the weighted minimum mean square error and block…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-12 Yang Liu , Jing Li , Xuanxuan Lu

Fluid antenna (FA) systems offer novel spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) with the potential for significant performance gains. Compared to existing works focusing solely on optimizing FA positions at discrete time instants, we introduce the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Shuaixin Yang , Yijia Li , Yue Xiao , Yong Liang Guan , Kai-Kit Wong , Hyundong Shin , Chau Yuen

Cooperative beamforming (CB) has been proposed as a special case of coordinated multi-point techniques in wireless communications. In wireless sensor networks, CB can enable low power communication by allowing a collection of sensor nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-29 Spyridon Vassilaras , George C. Alexandropoulos , Antonis A. Kalis

This letter develops an optimum beamforming method for downlink transmissions in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, which employ a massive number of distributed access points to provide concurrent services to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Andong Zhou , Jingxian Wu , Erik G. Larsson , Pingzhi Fan

Cell-free networks leverage distributed access points (APs) to achieve macro-diversity, yet their performance is often constrained by large disparities in channel quality arising from user geometry and blockages. To address this, rotatable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Xingxiang Peng , Qingqing Wu , Ziyuan Zheng , Yanze Zhu , Wen Chen , Penghui Huang , Ying Gao , Honghao Wang

Compact ultra-massive antenna-array (CUMA) is a novel multiple access technology built on the fluid antenna system (FAS) concept, offering an improved scheme over fluid antenna multiple access (FAMA) that can support massive connectivity on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Chenguang Rao , Kai-Kit Wong , Mohd Hamza Naim Shaikh , Hanjiang Hong , Hyundong Shin , Yangyang Zhang

A practical and scalable multicast beamformer design in multi-input multi-output~(MIMO) coded caching~(CC) systems is introduced in this paper. The proposed approach allows multicast transmission to multiple groups with partially…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Mohammad NaseriTehrani , MohammadJavad Salehi , Antti Tölli

The evaluation of the performance of clustered cooperative beamforming in cellular networks generally requires the solution of complex non-convex optimization problems. In this letter, a framework based on a hypergraph formalism is proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-22 Bahar Azari , Osvaldo Simeone , Umberto Spagnolini , Antonia M. Tulino

The pinching-antenna system (PASS) reconstructs wireless channels through pinching beamforming, i.e., optimizing the activated locations of pinching antennas (PAs) along the waveguide. The aim of this article is to investigate the joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Mingjun Sun , Chongjun Ouyang , Shaochuan Wu , Yuanwei Liu

Opportunistic interference alignment (OIA) asymptotically achieves the optimal degrees-of-freedom (DoF) in interfering multiple-access channels (IMACs) in a distributed fashion, as a certain user scaling condition is satisfied. For the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Hyun Jong Yang , Bang Chul Jung , Won-Yong Shin , Arogyaswami Paulraj

In this letter, we propose a robust beamforming design for non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) based multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink systems. In particular, the robust power minimization problem is studied with imperfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Faezeh Alavi , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Zhiguo Ding , Alister G. Burr