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Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) has emerged as an alternative deployment for conventional cellular massive MIMO networks. Prior works relied on the strong assumption (quite idealized) that the APs are uniformly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Marco Di Renzo , Symeon Chatzinotas , John M. Senior

Satellites provide seamless coverage and are critical for emergency communications during natural disasters. However, their performance is constrained by limited spectrum and high deployment cost. To address these issues, we propose a fluid…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Tianyu Han , Yongxu Zhu , Gan Zheng , Pantelis-Daniel Arapoglou

We consider channel estimation for an uplink massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where the base station (BS) uses an array with low-resolution (1-2 bit) analog-to-digital converters and a spatial Sigma-Delta…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-15 Shilpa Rao , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Hessam Pirzadeh , Josef A. Nossek , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Fluid antenna systems encompass a broad class of reconfigurable antenna technologies that offer substantial spatial diversity for various optimization objectives and communication tasks. Their capability to enhance spatial resolution within…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jingyuan Xu , Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , Hao Jiang , Zaichen Zhang

The problem of beam alignment (BA) in a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system operating at millimeter wave (mmWaves) carrier frequencies is considered in this paper. Two estimation algorithms are proposed, in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Maria Fresia , Xiaofeng Wu

This paper addresses the challenge of co-channel interference and intentional jamming in low-altitude air-ground communications. Since conventional fixed-position antenna (FPA) systems lack spatial adaptability to dynamically balance signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Yifan Guo , Junshan Luo , Fanggang Wang , Haiyang Ding , Shilian Wang , Zhenhai Xu

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) have emerged as a revolutionary technology offering enhanced spatial diversity within a compact form factor. Concurrently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are integral to future networks, necessitating channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Xusheng Zhu , Kai-Kit Wong , Qingqing Wu , Hyundong Shin , Yangyang Zhang

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) enjoys great advantage in 5G wireless communication systems owing to its spectrum and energy efficiency. However, hundreds of antennas require large volumes of pilot overhead to guarantee…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 An Chen , Wenbo Xu , Liyang Lu , Yue Wang

This paper seeks to determine the most efficient uplink technique for cell-free massive MIMO systems. Despite offering great advances, existing works suffer from fragmented methodologies and inconsistent assumptions (e.g., single- vs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

We demonstrate that separating beamforming (i.e., downlink precoding and uplink combining) and channel estimation in multi-user MIMO wireless systems incurs no loss of optimality under general conditions that apply to a wide variety of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Lorenzo Miretti , Slawomir Stańczak , Giuseppe Caire

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

With the development of the upcoming sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, there is a pressing need for innovative technologies capable of satisfying heightened performance indicators. Fluid antenna system (FAS) is proposed recently as a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Yuqi Ye , Li You , Hao Xu , Ahmed Elzanaty , Kai-Kit Wong , Xiqi Gao

Cell-Free (CF) Massive MIMO (mMIMO) is a technology which can potentially augment not only the deployment of 5G, but also the deployment of beyond 5G (B5G) wireless networks. However, the cost for rolling out such systems may be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Ioannis Chiotis , Aris L. Moustakas

This paper addresses the problem of uplink and downlink channel estimation in FDD Massive MIMO systems. By utilizing sparse recovery and compressive sensing algorithms, we are able to improve the accuracy of the uplink/downlink channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Yacong Ding , Bhaskar D. Rao

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are expected to implement advanced cooperative communication techniques to let geographically distributed access points jointly serve user equipments. Building on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Bo Ai

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

This paper investigates pilot assignment and access point (AP) selection strategies for uplink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems. We propose channel similarity-aware pilot assignment (CAPA) and AP selection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Saeed Mohammadzadeh , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Pei Liu , Hien Quoc Ngo

Enormous fluid antenna systems (E-FAS) have recently emerged as a surface-wave (SW)-enabled architecture that can induce controllable large-scale channel gains through guided electromagnetic routing. This paper develops a secrecy analysis…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , Masoud Kaveh , Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Kin-Fai Tong , Hyundong Shin

This paper investigates downlink channel estimation in frequency-division duplex (FDD)-based massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. To reduce the overhead of downlink channel estimation and uplink feedback in FDD systems,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Yinsheng Liu , Yinjun Liu , Qimei Cui , Riku Jantti

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology has significantly impacted wireless communication, by providing extraordinary performance gains. However, a minimum inter-antenna space constraint in MIMO systems does not allow its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Priyadarshi Mukherjee , Constantinos Psomas , Ioannis Krikidis