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Channel estimation for millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive MIMO with hybrid precoding is challenging, since the number of radio frequency (RF) chains is usually much smaller than that of antennas. To date, several channel estimation schemes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Zhen Gao , Linglong Dai , Chen Hu , Zhaocheng Wang

Movable antenna (MA) is an emerging technology that can significantly improve communication performance via the continuous adjustment of the antenna positions. To unleash the potential of MAs in wideband communication systems, acquiring…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Zhenyu Xiao , Songqi Cao , Lipeng Zhu , Boyu Ning , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang

The potential of applying diffusion models (DMs) for multiple antenna communications is discussed. A unified framework of applying DM for multiple antenna tasks is first proposed. Then, the tasks are innovatively divided into two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-05 Jia Guo , Xiaoxia Xu , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

Future wireless networks are expected to support increasingly high data rates and user densities, motivating advanced multi-antenna architectures capable of adapting to dynamic propagation environments. Movable antenna (MA) arrays have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Amna Irshad , Emil Björnson , Alva Kosasih , Vitaly Petrov

Millimeter Wave (mmWave) massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems realizing directive beamforming require reliable estimation of the wireless propagation channel. However, mmWave channels are characterized by high variability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Evangelos Vlachos , George C. Alexandropoulos , John Thompson

We develop a broadband channel estimation algorithm for millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems with few-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). Our methodology exploits the joint sparsity of the mmWave MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Jianhua Mo , Philip Schniter , Robert W. Heath

Along with the prosperity of generative artificial intelligence (AI), its potential for solving conventional challenges in wireless communications has also surfaced. Inspired by this trend, we investigate the application of the advanced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xingyu Zhou , Le Liang , Jing Zhang , Peiwen Jiang , Yong Li , Shi Jin

Large-scale multiple-antenna systems have been identified as a promising technology for the next generation of wireless systems. However, by scaling up the number of receive antennas the energy consumption will also increase. One possible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Z. Shao , L. Landau , R. C. de Lamare

This paper proposes a deep learning-based channel estimation method for multi-cell interference-limited massive MIMO systems, in which base stations equipped with a large number of antennas serve multiple single-antenna users. The proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-02 Eren Balevi , Akash Doshi , Jeffrey G. Andrews

This paper proposes a new transmission strategy for the multiuser massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, including uplink/downlink channel estimation and user scheduling for data transmission. A discrete Fourier transform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Hongxiang Xie , Feifei Gao , Shun Zhang , Shi Jin

Channel estimation (CE) plays a key role in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems, while it poses a challenging task due to the passive nature of RIS and the cascaded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yonghui Chu , Zhiqiang Wei , Zai Yang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

In this letter, we develop a continuous fluid antenna (FA) framework for uplink channel estimation in cell-free massive multiple-input and multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems. By modeling the wireless channel as a spatially correlated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Masoud Kaveh , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Francisco Hernando-Gallego , Diego Martin , Riku Jantti , Kai-Kit Wong

For integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, the channel information essential for communication and sensing tasks fluctuates across different timescales. Specifically, wireless sensing primarily focuses on acquiring path state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Zhiqiang Xiao , Yong Zeng , Fuxi Wen , Zaichen Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Movable antenna (MA) systems have recently attracted significant attention in the field of wireless communications owing to their exceptional capability to proactively reconfigure wireless channels via flexible antenna movements. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Nianzu Li , Peiran Wu , Lipeng Zhu , Weidong Mei , Boyu Ning , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

This paper investigates the uplink cascaded channel estimation for intelligent-reflecting-surface (IRS)-assisted multi-user multiple-input-single-output systems. We focus on a sub-6 GHz scenario where the channel propagation is not sparse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Huayan Guo , Vincent K. N. Lau

Dynamic Metasurface Antennas (DMAs) are transforming reconfigurable antenna technology by enabling energy-efficient, cost-effective beamforming through programmable meta-elements, eliminating the need for traditional phase shifters and…

A novel multiuser communication system with movable antennas (MAs) is proposed, where the antenna position optimization is exploited to enhance the downlink sum-rate. The joint optimization of the transmit beamforming vector and transmit MA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Jianchi Zhu , Chongjun Ouyang

Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing (AFDM) is a brand new chirp-based multi-carrier (MC) waveform for high mobility communications, with promising advantages over Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and other MC waveforms.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Rongyou Cao , Yuheng Zhong , Jiangbin Lyu , Deqing Wang , Liqun Fu

We present a unified receiver processing framework for communication over delay-scale (DS)-spread channels that arise in underwater acoustic (UWA) communications that addresses both channel estimation (CE) and data detection for different…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Niladri Halder , Chandra R. Murthy

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has garnered significant attention in recent years. In this paper, we delve into the topic of sensing-assisted communication within ISAC systems. More specifically, a novel sensing-assisted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Shuhan Wang , Aimin Tang , Xudong Wang , Wenze Qu