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We consider the uplink of a Massive MIMO network with $L$ cells, each comprising a BS with $M$ antennas and $K$ single-antenna user equipments. Recently, [1] studied the asymptotic spectral efficiency of such networks with optimal multicell…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Luca Sanguinetti , Emil Björnson , Abla Kammoun

This paper considers channel estimation and achievable rates for the uplink of a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where the base station is equipped with one-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). By rewriting the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yongzhi Li , Cheng Tao , Liu Liu , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In this paper, we study the channel estimation problem in correlated massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems with a reduced number of radio-frequency (RF) chains. Importantly, other than the knowledge of channel correlation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Javad Mirzaei , Shahram ShahbazPanahi , Foad Sohrabi , Raviraj Adve

In massive MIMO systems, hybrid beamforming is an essential technique for exploiting the potential array gain without using a dedicated RF chain for each antenna. In this work, we consider the data phase in a massive MIMO communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Shahar Stein Ioushua , Yonina C. Eldar

In this paper, a framework of beamspace channel estimation in millimeter wave (mmWave) massive MIMO system is proposed. The framework includes the design of hybrid precoding and combining matrix as well as the search method for the largest…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-08 Wenyan Ma , Chenhao Qi

This paper proposes a joint channel and data estimation (JCDE) algorithm for uplink multiuser extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems. The initial channel estimation is formulated as a sparse reconstruction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Kabuto Arai , Koji Ishibashi , Hiroki Iimori , Paulo Valente Klaine , Szabolcs Malomsoky

Massive MIMO communication systems, by virtue of utilizing very large number of antennas, have a potential to yield higher spectral and energy efficiency in comparison with the conventional MIMO systems. In this paper, we consider uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Alam Zaib , Mudassir Masood , Anum Ali , Weiyu Xu , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

In this paper we consider a time-division duplex cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where many distributed access points (APs) simultaneously serve many users. A normalized conjugate beamforming scheme, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Giovanni Interdonato , Hien Quoc Ngo , Erik G. Larsson , Pål Frenger

In a cell-free massive MIMO architecture a very large number of distributed access points simultaneously and jointly serves a much smaller number of mobile stations; a variant of the cell-free technique is the user-centric approach, wherein…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-28 Mario Alonzo , Stefano Buzzi , Alessio Zappone , Ciro D'Elia

In this study, we revisit the performance analysis of distributed beamforming architectures in dense user-centric cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems in line-of-sight (LoS) scenarios. By incorporating a recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Noor Ul Ain , Lorenzo Miretti , Sławomir Stańczak

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

Synchronization is a fundamental procedure in cellular systems whereby an UE acquires the time and frequency information required to decode the data transmitted by a BS. Due to the necessity of using large antenna arrays to obtain the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Javier Rodriguez-Fernandez

Fully digital massive MIMO systems with large numbers (1000+) of antennas offer dramatically increased capacity gains from spatial multiplexing and beamforming. Designing digital receivers that can scale to these array dimensions presents…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Ali Rasteh , Amirreza Kiani , Marco Mezzavilla , Sundeep Rangan

A novel transmission protocol is conceived for a multi-user, multi-relay, multiple-input--multiple-output orthogonal frequency-division multiple-access (MIMO-OFDMA) cellular network based on joint transmit and receive beamforming. More…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Kent Tsz Kan Cheung , Shaoshi Yang , Lajos Hanzo

We consider the problem of coordinated multi- cell downlink beamforming in massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems consisting of N cells, Nt antennas per base station (BS) and K user terminals (UTs) per cell. Specifically, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Subhash Lakshminarayana , Mohamad Assaad , Merouane Debbah

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

In this paper, we investigate a cell-free massive MIMO system with both access points and user equipments equipped with multiple antennas over the Weichselberger Rayleigh fading channel. We study the uplink spectral efficiency (SE) based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Zhe Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Hien Quoc Ngo , Bo Ai , Mérouane Debbah

We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with multi-antenna access points and user equipments (UEs) over Weichselberger Rician fading channels with random phase-shifts. More specifically, we investigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Xin Li , Jiayi Zhang , Zhe Wang , Bo Ai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

In cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) the fluctuations of the channel gain from the access points to a user are large due to the distributed topology of the system. Because of these fluctuations, data decoding schemes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Giovanni Interdonato , Hien Quoc Ngo , Erik G. Larsson

Achieving high spectral efficiency in realistic massive multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems requires computationally-complex algorithms for data detection in the uplink (users transmit to base-station) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Kaipeng Li , Rishi Sharan , Yujun Chen , Tom Goldstein , Joseph R. Cavallaro , Christoph Studer