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The sixth generation of wireless networks envisions intelligent and adaptive environments capable of meeting the demands of emerging applications such as immersive extended reality, advanced healthcare, and the metaverse. However, this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Dimitrios Tyrovolas , Sotiris A. Tegos , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , Sotiris Ioannidis , Christos K. Liaskos , George K. Karagiannidis

This paper considers a single-cell massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system with dual-polarized antennas at both the base station and users. We study a channel model that includes the key practical aspects that arise when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Özgecan Özdogan , Emil Björnson

The evolution of wireless networks is driving new paradigms for consideration in upcoming generations. To this end, the 6G anticipates the development of several data-rate-hungry applications, in addition to a forecast growth in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Elmehdi Illi , Marwa Qaraqe

This paper introduces a hybrid pilot-aided channel estimation technique for mitigating the effect of pilot contamination for the uplink of multi-cell multiuser massive MIMO systems. The proposed hybrid pilot is designed such that it enjoys…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Jiaming Li , Chau Yuen , Dong Li , Han Zhang , Xianda Wu

A reconfigurable pinching-antenna system (PASS) is presented, endowing pinching antennas (PAs) with both amplitude- and phase-controllable radiation beyond conventional implementations. To characterize this feature, a general and physically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhaolin Wang , Jiaqi Xu , Chongjun Ouyang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) have been recently considered as an energy-efficient solution for future wireless networks due to their fast and low-power configuration, which has increased potential in enabling massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Li Wei , Chongwen Huang , George C. Alexandropoulos , Chau Yuen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Mérouane Debbah

We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with multiple antennas on the users and access points (APs). In previous works, the downlink spectral efficiency (SE) has been evaluated using the hardening bound…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Eren Berk Kama , Junbeom Kim , Emil Björnson

A segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN)-assisted integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) framework is proposed. Unlike conventional pinching antenna systems (PASS), which use a single long waveguide, SWAN divides…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan , Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober

In this paper, the performance of two-way relaying in mixed RF/FSO communication system with a backup RF link is investigated. Uplink RF channels are used to send data of $K$ users to a two-way relay, $R$, whereas FSO link is mainly used to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Mohammed A. Amer , Suhail Al-Dharrab

Pinching antennas, as a novel flexible-antenna technology capable of establishing line of sight (LoS) connections and effectively mitigating large-scale path loss, have recently attracted considerable research interests. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-07 Kaidi Wang , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis

In multiple antenna systems employing time-division duplexing, spatial precoder design at the base station (BS) leverages channel state information acquired through uplink pilot transmission, under the assumption of channel reciprocity.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-24 Donatella Darsena , Giacinto Gelli , Ivan Iudice , Francesco Verde

We develop a two-stage deep learning pipeline architecture to estimate the uplink massive MIMO channel with one-bit ADCs. This deep learning pipeline is composed of two separate generative deep learning models. The first one is a supervised…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-02 Eren Balevi , Jeffrey G. Andrews

This paper studies a pinching antenna system (PAS)-assisted hybrid uplink architecture that integrates over-the-air computation (AirComp) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to simultaneously support distributed data aggregation and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Saeid Pakravan , Imene Trigui , Wessam Ajib , Wei-Ping Zhu

Flexible-antenna systems have recently received significant research interest due to their capability to reconfigure wireless channels intelligently. This paper focuses on a new type of flexible-antenna technology, termed pinching antennas,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

We consider the reciprocity of the information-theoretic channel of Time Division Duplex (TDD) Multi-User-Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) systems in the up- and downlink. Specifically, we assume that the transmit and receive chains…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Tobias Laas , Josef A. Nossek , Samer Bazzi , Wen Xu

In massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, the large number of antennas would bring a great challenge for the acquisition of the accurate channel state information, especially in the frequency division duplex mode. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-04 Yindi Yang , Shun Zhang , Feifei Gao , Chao Xu , Jianpeng Ma , Octavia A. Dobre

This letter proposes a pragmatic link adaptation algorithm considering power density offsets (PDOs) for next-generation uplink wireless channels. The proposed algorithm consists of PDO calculation between a physical uplink shared channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Shu Sun , Sungho Moon , Jong-Kae Fwu

Channel state feedback plays an important role to the improvement of link performance in current wireless communication systems, and even more in the next generation. The feedback information, however, consumes the uplink bandwidth and thus…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Chunbo Luo

In this letter, a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) assisted downlink pinching-antenna system is investigated, where multiple pinching antennas can be activated at pre-configured positions along a dielectric waveguide to serve users via…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-19 Kaidi Wang , Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober

In a radio network with single source-destination pair and some relays, a link between any two nodes is considered to have same or zero path loss. However in practice some links may have considerably high path loss than others but still…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-03-07 P. S. Elamvazhuthi , P. S. Kulkarni , B. K. Dey