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Despite its promising performance gain, the realization of mmWave massive MIMO still faces several practical challenges. In particular, implementing massive MIMO in the digital domain requires hundreds of RF chains matching the number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Guangxu Zhu , Kaibin Huang , Vincent K. N. Lau , Bin Xia , Xiaofan Li , Sha Zhang

Distributed phased arrays based multiple-input multiple-output (DPA-MIMO) is a newly introduced architecture that enables both spatial multiplexing and beamforming while facilitating highly reconfigurable hardware implementation in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Yu Zhang , Yiming Huo , Dongming Wang , Xiaodai Dong , Xiaohu You

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) systems require efficient beamforming architectures to jointly support communication and sensing functionalities. To reduce hardware overhead, Hybrid Beamforming (HBF) has been widely studied and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Jiangong Chen , Xia Lei , Yuchen Zhang , Kaitao Meng , Christos Masouros

The conventional digital beamforming technique needs one radio frequency (RF) chain per antenna element. High power consumption, significantly high cost of RF chain components per antenna and complex signal processing task at base band…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Om Nath Acharya , Ram Kaji Budhathoki , Santosh Shaha

Future cellular systems based on the use of millimeter waves will heavily rely on the use of antenna arrays both at the transmitter and at the receiver. For complexity reasons and energy consumption issues, fully digital precoding and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) technology is one of the most promising candidates for future wireless communication systems as it can offer large underutilized bandwidths and eases the implementation of large antenna arrays which are required to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-01 Nuno Souto , João Silva , João Pavia , Marco Ribeiro

In this paper, we aim to design highly energy efficient end-to-end communication for millimeter wave multiple-input multiple-output systems. This is done by jointly optimizing the digital-to-analog converter (DAC)/analog-to-digital…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-12 Aryan Kaushik , Evangelos Vlachos , Christos Tsinos , John Thompson , Symeon Chatzinotas

In this paper, we consider a dual-hop Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) relay wireless network, in which a source-destination pair both equipped with multiple antennas communicates through a large number of half-duplex…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Yu Zhang , Hanwen Luo , Wen Chen

The potential of using of millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency for future wireless cellular communication systems has motivated the study of large-scale antenna arrays for achieving highly directional beamforming. However, the conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Foad Sohrabi , Wei Yu

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems achieve high sum spectral efficiency by offering an order of magnitude increase in multiplexing gains. In time division duplexing systems, however, the reuse of uplink training pilots…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Geert Leus , Robert W. Heath

Beamforming with a sufficient number of antennas is one of the most significant technologies for both Multi-user (MU) Multiple-input Multiple-output (MIMO) communication and MIMO radar sensing in Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Jiangong Chen , Xia Lei , Yuchen Zhang , Kaitao Meng , Christos Masouros

At millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies, the higher cost and power consumption of hardware components in multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) systems do not allow beamforming entirely at the baseband with a separate radio frequency (RF)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-27 Aryan Kaushik , John Thompson , Evangelos Vlachos

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) has been a key technology of wireless communications for decades. A typical MIMO system employs antenna arrays with the inter-antenna spacing being half of the signal wavelength, which we term as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xinrui Li , Hongqi Min , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Linglong Dai , Yifei Yuan , Rui Zhang

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) offers substantial spectral-efficiency gains, but scaling to very large antenna arrays with conventional all-digital and hybrid beamforming architectures quickly results in excessively high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Carolina Nolasco-Ferencikova , Georg Schwan , Raphael Rolny , Alexander Stutz-Tirri , Christoph Studer

Switch-based hybrid network is a promising implementation for beamforming in large-scale millimetre wave (mmWave) antenna arrays. By fully exploiting the sparse nature of the mmWave channel, such hybrid beamforming reduces complexity and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-02 Hamed Nosrati , Elias Aboutanios , Xiangrong Wang , David Smith

This paper presents designs and prototypes of low cost multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antennas for 5G and millimetre-wave (mm-wave) applications. The proposed MIMOs are fabricated using 3D printing and are able deliver beams in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Shaker Alkaraki , Yue Gao

Hybrid transceiver can strike a balance between complexity and performance of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In this paper, we develop a unified framework on hybrid MIMO transceiver design using matrix-monotonic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Chengwen Xing , Xin Zhao , Wei Xu , Xiaodai Dong , Geoffrey Ye Li

Hybrid analog/digital precoding architectures can address the trade-off between achievable spectral efficiency and power consumption in large-scale MIMO systems. This makes it a promising candidate for millimeter wave systems, which require…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Sungwoo Park , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Robert W. Heath

Antenna arrays will be an important ingredient in millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular systems. A natural application of antenna arrays is simultaneous transmission to multiple users. Unfortunately, the hardware constraints in mmWave systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Geert Leus , Robert W. Heath

Distributed multiple-input multiple-output (D\mbox{-}MIMO) is a promising technology to realize the promise of massive MIMO gains by fiber-connecting the distributed antenna arrays, thereby overcoming the form factor limitations of…