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This paper proposes a channel estimation method for hybrid wideband multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems in high-frequency bands, including millimeter-wave (mmWave) and sub-terahertz (sub-THz), in the presence of beam squint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Kabuto Arai , Koji Ishibashi

In this paper, we investigate an uplink communication scenario in which multiple users communicate with an access point (AP) employing non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). A pinching antenna, which can be activated at an arbitrary point…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ming Zeng , Ji Wang , Xingwang Li , Gongpu Wang , Octavia A. Dobre , Zhiguo Ding

In this paper, we investigate the blind channel estimation problem for MIMO systems under Rayleigh fading channel. Conventional MIMO communication techniques require transmitting a considerable amount of training symbols as pilots in each…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Jiancheng Tang , Qianqian Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

The 3GPP suggests to combine dual polarized (DP) antenna arrays with the double directional (DD) channel model for downlink channel estimation. This combination strikes a good balance between high-capacity communications and parsimonious…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-29 Cheng Qian , Xiao Fu , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos , Ye Yang

In massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, the knowledge of the users' channel covariance matrix is crucial for minimum mean square error (MMSE) channel estimation in the uplink as well as it plays an important role in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Tianyu Yang , Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

This paper investigates multi-stream downlink precoding for massive multiple-input multiple-output low-Earthorbit satellite (SAT) communication systems. We adopt a delay and Doppler precompensation approach to achieve coherent transmission.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Hangsong Yan , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang , Bin Song , Shu Sun

Uplink-downlink duality refers to the fact that under a sum-power constraint, the capacity regions of a Gaussian multiple-access channel and a Gaussian broadcast channel with Hermitian transposed channel matrices are identical. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Liang Liu , Ya-Feng Liu , Pratik Patil , Wei Yu

Pinching antennas have been recently proposed as a promising flexible-antenna technology, which can be implemented by attaching low-cost pinching elements to dielectric waveguides. This work explores the potential of employing pinching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Ali Bereyhi , Saba Asaad , Chongjun Ouyang , Zhiguo Ding , H. Vincent Poor

Compressed Sensing (CS) based channel estimation techniques have recently emerged as an effective way to acquire the channel of millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems with a small number of measurements. These techniques, however, are based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-04 Mohammed E. Eltayeb

The evolution of wireless communication systems requires flexible, energy-efficient, and cost-effective antenna technologies. Pinching antennas (PAs), which can dynamically control electromagnetic wave propagation through binary activation…

This paper investigates the performance of a pinching-antenna (PA) system with a signal waveguide and multiple pinching antennas to serve users distributed across multiple rooms. The performance of the system is evaluated through a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Yanyu Cheng , Hao Li , Zhen Wang , Zhiguo Ding

Uplink sensing is still a relatively unexplored scenario in integrated sensing and communication which can be used to improve positioning and sensing estimates. We introduce a pilot-based maximum likelihood, and a maximum a posteriori…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Enrique T. R. Pinto , Markku Juntti

As a basic information-theoretic model for fading relay channels, the parallel relay channel is first studied, for which lower and upper bounds on the capacity are derived. For the parallel relay channel with degraded subchannels, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Yingbin Liang , Venugopal V. Veeravalli , H. Vincent Poor

To obtain channel information for further data transmission, the blind channel estimation needs no pilot signal in advance is a considerable algorithm. To improve performance of the blind channel estimation schemes, we have employed the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-01 Jia-Chyi Wu , Zhen-Wei Kao

This paper investigates a rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) for uplink pinching antenna system (PASS). Our objective is to maximize the uplink sum rate by jointly optimizing a continuous antenna positioning and user's transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Zar Chi Phyo , Shreya Khisa , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafaddine

Previous work on cooperative communications has concentrated primarily on the diversity benefits of such techniques. This paper, instead, considers the multiplexing benefits of cooperative communications. First, a new interpretation on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-16 Yijia , Fan , Chao Wang , H. Vincent Poor , John S. Thompson

This paper proposes a novel multi-mode pinching-antenna systems (PASS) framework. Multiple data streams can be transmitted within a single waveguide through multiple guided modes, thus facilitating efficient multi-user communications…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Xiaoxia Xu , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

The high directionality and intense Doppler effects of millimeter wave (mmWave) and sub-terahertz (subTHz) channels demand accurate localization of the users and a new paradigm of channel estimation. For orthogonal frequency division…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Enrique T. R. Pinto , Markku Juntti

Time-division duplex (TDD) based massive MIMO systems rely on the reciprocity of the wireless propagation channels when calculating the downlink precoders based on uplink pilots. However, the effective uplink and downlink channels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Orod Raeesi , Ahmet Gokceoglu , Mikko Valkama

Motivated by the fact that full diversity order is achieved using the "best-relay" selection technique, we consider opportunistic amplify-and-forward and decode-and-forward relaying systems. We focus on the outage probability of such a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ashkan Kalantari , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Mehrdad Ardebilipour