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Space-time codes leverage the availability of multiple antennas to enhance the reliability of communication over wireless channels. While space-time codes have initially been designed with a focus on open-loop systems, recent technological…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Che Lin , Vasanthan Raghavan , Venu Veeravalli

As a wide class of resource management problems in wireless communications are nonconvex and even NP-hard in many cases, finding globally optimal solutions to these problems is of little practical interest. Towards more pragmatic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Quang-Doanh Vu , Markku Juntti , Een-Kee Hong , Le-Nam Tran

In this letter, we investigate a robust beamforming problem for localization-aided millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems. To handle this problem, we propose a novel restriction and relaxation (R&R) method. The proposed R&R method…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Junchang Sun , Shuai Ma , Shiyin Li , Ruixin Yang , Minghui Min , Gonzalo Seco-Granados

In this correspondence, we propose a movable antenna (MA)-aided multi-user hybrid beamforming scheme with a sub-connected structure, where multiple movable sub-arrays can independently change their positions within different local regions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yichi Zhang , Yuchen Zhang , Lipeng Zhu , Sa Xiao , Wanbin Tang , Yonina C. Eldar , Rui Zhang

Cell-free integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems are facing the resource allocation challenges due to the deployment of access points (APs) and conflicting beamforming requirements between the communication and sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Jijin Guo , Lixin Li , Yufeng Zheng , Dongwei Zhao , Wensheng Lin , Zhu Han

This paper focuses on energy-efficient coordinated multi-point (CoMP) downlink in multi-antenna multi-cell wireless communications systems. We provide an overview of transmit beamforming designs for various energy efficiency (EE) metrics…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Kien-Giang Nguyen , Oskari Tervo , Quang-Doanh Vu , Le-Nam Tran , Markku Juntti

To meet the requirements for high data rates and ubiquitous connectivity in 6G networks, higher frequencies and larger array apertures are employed to enhance spatial resolution and spectral efficiency. This evolution leads to an expansion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Shupei Zhang , Boya Di , Lingyang Song

The robust adaptive beamforming (RAB) problem for general-rank signal model with an additional positive semi-definite constraint is considered. Using the principle of the worst-case performance optimization, such RAB problem leads to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Arash Khabbazibasmenj , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has been recognized as a promising technique in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks for fast data aggregation from a large number of wireless devices. However, as the number of devices becomes large, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Xiongfei Zhai , Xihan Chen , Jie Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

This paper investigates secure communications in a near-field multi-functional integrated sensing, communication, and powering (ISCAP) system with an extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAA) equipped at the base station (BS). In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Zixiang Ren , Siyao Zhang , Xinmin Li , Ling Qiu , Jie Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

The combination of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an efficient solution to significantly enhance the energy efficiency of the wireless communication system. In this paper, we focus on a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Ximing Xie , Fang Fang , Zhiguo Ding

We study physical layer multicasting in multicell networks where each base station, equipped with multiple antennas, transmits a common message using a single beamformer to multiple users in the same cell. We investigate two coordinated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-23 Zhengzheng Xiang , Meixia Tao , Xiaodong Wang

To develop a low-complexity multicast beamforming method for millimeter wave communications, we first propose a channel gain estimation method in this article. We use the beam sweeping to find the best codeword and its two neighboring…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Zhaohui Li , Chenhao Qi , Geoffrey Ye Li

In this paper, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assistant air-to-ground communication system, where multiple UAVs form a UAV-enabled virtual antenna array (UVAA) to communicate with remote base stations by utilizing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Saichao Liu , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Shuang Liang , Qingqing Wu , Pengfei Wang , Dusit Niyato

Material properties such as permeability fields in heterogeneous porous media are often represented as discontinuous, piecewise constant data tied to a given spatial discretization. Such representations are inherently mesh-dependent,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Kapil Chawla , Sanghyun Lee , Yeonjong Shin

We propose a novel low-complexity receiver design for multicarrier continuous aperture array (CAPA) systems operating over doubly-dispersive (DD) channels. The receiver leverages a Gaussian Belief Propagation (GaBP)-based framework that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Emil Björnson

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless sensor network, in which one UAV flies in the sky to collect the data transmitted from a set of sensors via distributed beamforming. We consider the delay-sensitive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Tianxin Feng , Lifeng Xie , Jianping Yao , Jie Xu

The sixth generation (6G) mobile communication networks are expected to offer a new paradigm of cellular integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). However, due to the intrinsic difference between sensing and communication in terms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Ruoguang Li , Zhiqiang Xiao , Yong Zeng

In this letter, we study the energy efficiency maximization problem for a fluid antenna system (FAS) in near field communications. Specifically, we consider a point-to-point near-field system where the base station (BS) transmitter has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Yixuan Chen , Mingzhe Chen , Hao Xu , Zhaohui Yang , Kai-Kit Wong , Zhaoyang Zhang

In this letter, we consider an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication and we optimize the joint active and passive beamforming by exploiting the geometrical structure of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-25 Yuri S. Ribeiro , Fazal E-Asim , André L. F de Almeida , Behrooz Makki , Gabor Fodor