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Extremely large antenna array (ELAA) is key to enhancing spectral efficiency in 6G networks. Leveraging the distributed nature of multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems enables the formation of distributed ELAA, which often operate in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Tianyu Huo , Jian Xiong , Yiyan Wu , Songjie Yang , Bo Liu , Wenjun Zhang

Recent studies suggest that uniform circular arrays (UCAs) can extend the angular coverage of the radiative near field region. This work investigates whether such enhanced angular coverage translates into improved spatial multiplexing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Ahmed Hussain , Asmaa Abdallah , Abdulkadir Celik , Ahmed M. Eltawil

Extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA) is promising as one of the key ingredients for the sixth generation (6G) of wireless communications. The electromagnetic propagation of spherical wavefronts introduces an additional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Xu Shi , Xuehan Wang , Jingbo Tan , Jintao Wang

Extremely large-scale array (XL-array) has emerged as a promising technology to enable near-field communications for achieving enhanced spectrum efficiency and spatial resolution, by drastically increasing the number of antennas. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Cong Zhou , Changsheng You , Haodong Zhang , Li Chen , Shuo Shi

In the evolving landscape of sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are incorporating an unprecedented number of antenna elements, advancing towards Extremely large-scale…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Yuan Gao , Xinyu Guo , Han Li , Jianbo Du , Shugong Xu

With the deployment of large antenna arrays at high-frequency bands, future wireless communication systems are likely to operate in the radiative near-field (NF). Unlike far-field beam steering, NF beams can be focused on a spatial region…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Ahmed Hussain , Asmaa Abdallah , Abdulkadir Celik , Ahmed M. Eltawil

Extremely large antenna arrays (ELAAs) are widely adopted in mmWave/THz communications to compensate for the severe path loss, wherein the channel estimation remains a significant challenge since the Rayleigh distance of ELAAs stretches to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Yiming Chen , Hongwei Wang , Lingxiang Li , Zhi Chen

With the deployment of large antenna arrays at high frequency bands, future wireless communication systems are likely to operate in the radiative near-field. Unlike far-field beam steering, near-field beams can be focused within a spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Ahmed Hussain , Asmaa Abdallah , Abdulkadir Celik , Ahmed M. Eltawil

Achieving high-rate communication with accurate localization and wireless environment sensing has emerged as an important trend of beyond-fifth and sixth generation cellular systems. Extension of the antenna array to an extremely large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Jie Yang , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Chao-Kai Wen , Pingping Xu

This paper investigates near-field XL-MIMO systems with sparse uniform planar arrays (UPAs). Based on the Green's function-based channel model, the paper derives closed-form expressions for the signal beam power when the distance coordinate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Xianzhe Chen , Hong Ren , Cunhua Pan , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Jiangzhou Wang

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is the development trend of future wireless communications. However, the extremely large-scale antenna array could bring inevitable nearfield and dual-wideband effects that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Jie Xu , Li You , George C. Alexandropoulos , Xinping Yi , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao

This paper proposes a novel pilot scheme for multi-user uplink channel estimation in extra-large-scale massive MIMO (XL-MIMO) systems with extremely large aperture arrays (ELAA). The large aperture of ELAA introduces spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Yumeng Zhang , Huayan Guo , Vincent Lau

Extremely Large-scale Array (ELAA) is considered a frontier technology for future communication systems, pivotal in improving wireless systems' rate and spectral efficiency. As ELAA employs a multitude of antennas operating at higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Jiali Nie , Yuanhao Cui , Zhaohui Yang , Weijie Yuan , Xiaojun Jing

In this paper, we investigate the near-field modelling and analyze the beam focusing pattern for modular extremely large-scale array (XL-array) communications. As modular XL-array is physically and electrically large in general, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Xinrui Li , Zhenjun Dong , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we introduce a family of novel sparse array designs called the augmented ULAs (AULAs) for the localization of non-circular signals (NCS). Accurate direction of arrival (DOA) estimation and the ability to resolve multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Abdul Hayee Shaikh , Xiaoguang Liu

This paper considers near-field multiuser communications based on sparse arrays (SAs). First, for the uniform SAs (USAs), we analyze the beam gains of channel steering vectors, which shows that increasing the antenna spacings can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Kangjian Chen , Chenhao Qi , Geoffrey Ye Li , Octavia A. Dobre

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) communication aims to further boost the antenna size significantly than current massive MIMO systems, for which conventional far-field assumption with uniform plane wave (UPW)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Haiquan Lu , Yong Zeng

Ray antenna array (RAA) is a novel multi-antenna architecture comprising massive low-cost antenna elements and a few radio-frequency (RF) chains. The antenna elements are arranged in a novel ray-like structure, where each ray corresponds to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Haoyu Jiang , Yong Zeng

The beamforming performance of the uniform circular array (UCA) in near-field wideband communication systems is investigated. Compared to uniform linear array (ULA), UCA exhibits uniform effective array aperture in all directions, thus…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Yunhui Guo , Yang Zhang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu

Extremely large aperture arrays (ELAAs) can offer massive spatial multiplexing gains in the radiative near-field region in beyond 5G systems. While near-field channel modeling for uniform linear arrays has been extensively explored in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Alva Kosasih , Emil Björnson