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Distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), also known as cell-free massive MIMO, emerges as a promising technology for sixth-generation (6G) systems to support uniform coverage and reliable communication. For the design and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Yingjie Xu , Michiel Sandra , Xuesong Cai , Sara Willhammar , Fredrik Tufvesson

In this paper, we perform a coverage analysis of a cellular massive multiple-input multiple-output (MaMIMO) network which adopts 3D beamforming. In contrast to the previous works on 3D beamforming which assume that all users are placed on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-14 M. Baianifar , S. Khavari , S. M. Razavizadeh , T. Svensson

We propose a novel doubly-dispersive (DD) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel model incorporating flexible intelligent metasurfaces (FIMs), which is suitable for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) in high-mobility…

This paper investigates multi-target detection in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system within a cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) framework. We adopt a user-centric approach for communication user equipments (UEs) and a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Zinat Behdad , Ozlem Tugfe Demir , Ki Won Sung , Cicek Cavdar

Beam alignment is required in millimeter wave communication to ensure high data rate transmission. However, with narrow beamwidth in massive MIMO, beam alignment could be computationally intensive due to the large number of beam pairs to be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-05 Orikumhi Igbafe , Jeongwan Kang , Henk Wymeersch , Sunwoo Kim

With the growing interest in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, the benefits of single-antenna access points (APs) versus multi-antenna APs must be analyzed in order to optimize deployment. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-05 Thomas Choi , Peng Luo , Akshay Ramesh , Andreas F. Molisch

We address the problem of analyzing and classifying in groups the downlink channel environment in a millimeter-wavelength cell, accounting for path loss, multipath fading, and User Equipment (UE) blocking, by employing a hybrid propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Thomas Ketseoglou , Matthew. C. Valenti , Ender Ayanoglu

The flexible-position multiple-input multiple-output (FLP-MIMO), such as fluid antennas and movable antennas, is a promising technology for future wireless communications. This is due to the fact that the positions of antennas at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Sumei Sun , Bo Ai , Khaled B. Letaief

The availability of positional information is of great importance in many commercial, public safety, and military applications. The coming years will see the emergence of location-aware networks with sub-meter accuracy, relying on accurate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-07 Yuan Shen , Moe Z. Win

Massive MIMO is bringing significant performance improvements in the context of outdoor macrocells, such as favourable propagation conditions, spatially confined communication, high antenna gains to overcome pathloss, and good angular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-26 Andrea P. Guevara , Sibren De Bast , Sofie Pollin

Accurate multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel estimation is critical for next-generation wireless systems, enabling enhanced communication and sensing performance. Traditional model-based channel estimation methods suffer, however,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Seyed Alireza Javid , Nuria González-Prelcic

In this letter, we investigate the fundamental limits of localization in fluid antenna systems (FAS) utilizing a Fisher-information-theoretic framework. We develop a unified model to quantify the localization information extractable from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Abdelhamid Salem , Kai-Kit Wong , Hyundong Shin , Yangyang Zhang

In this paper, we study a cell-free multiple-input multiple-output network equipped with integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) access points (APs). The distributed APs are used to jointly serve the communication needs of user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Steven Rivetti , Emil Bjornson , Mikael Skoglund

This paper considers a mmWave cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) network composed of a large number of geographically distributed access points (APs) simultaneously serving multiple user equipments (UEs) via coherent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-03 Mahmoud Zaher , Emil Björnson , Marina Petrova

Realizing distributed multi-user beamforming (D-MUBF) in time division duplex (TDD)-based multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) systems faces significant challenges. One of the most fundamental challenges is achieving accurate over-the-air (OTA) timing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Mehdi Zafari , Divyanshu Pandey , Rahman Doost-Mohammady

The doubly-dispersive (DD) channel structure has played a pivotal role in wireless communications, particularly in high-mobility scenarios and integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), due to its ability to capture the key fading…

Broad beam beamforming (BF) design in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) can be convenient for initial access, synchronization, and sensing capabilities in cellular networks by avoiding overheads of sweeping methods while making…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Ahmet Kaplan , Diana P. M. Osorio , Erik G. Larsson

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising technology for next-generation communication systems. This work proposes a novel partially coherent (PC) transmission framework to cope with the challenge of phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Unnikrishnan Kunnath Ganesan , Tung Thanh Vu , Erik G. Larsson

Flexible intelligent metasurfaces (FIMs) show great potential for improving the wireless network capacity in an energy-efficient manner. An FIM is a soft array consisting of several low-cost radiating elements. Each element can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Jiancheng An , Zhu Han , Dusit Niyato , Mérouane Debbah , Chau Yuen , Lajos Hanzo

Location awareness in wireless networks may enable many applications such as emergency services, autonomous driving and geographic routing. Although there are many available positioning techniques, none of them is adapted to work with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Vladimir Savic , Erik G. Larsson