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Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) avails of simple transceiver design which can tackle many drawbacks of relay systems in terms of complicated signal processing, latency, and noise amplification. However, the cost and circuit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Milad Fozooni , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou , Shi Jin , George C. Alexandropoulos

As the dense deployment of access points (APs) in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems presents significant challenges, per-AP coverage can be expanded using large-scale antenna arrays (LAAs). However, this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Eunhyuk Park , Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Marco Di Renzo , Shlomo Shamai

Hybrid analog/digital architectures and receivers with low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are two low power solutions for wireless systems with large antenna arrays, such as millimeter wave and massive MIMO systems. Most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Jianhua Mo , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Shadi Abu-Surra , Robert W. Heath

Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communication is a key technology for future wireless networks. To combat significant path loss and exploit the abundant mm-wave spectrum, effective beamforming is crucial. Nevertheless, conventional fully digital…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-05 Jun Zhang , Xianghao Yu , Khaled B. Letaief

It is well known that there is inherent radiation pattern distortion for the commercial base station antenna array, which usually needs three antenna sectors to cover the whole space. To eliminate pattern distortion and further enhance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Ran Ji , Chongwen Huang , Xiaoming Chen , Wei E. I. Sha , Linglong Dai , Jiguang He , Zhaoyang Zhang , Chau Yuen , Mérouane Debbah

This paper develops energy-efficient hybrid beamforming designs for mmWave multi-user systems where analog precoding is realized by switches and phase shifters such that radio frequency (RF) chain to transmit antenna connections can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-16 Vu Nguyen Ha , Duy H. N. Nguyen , Jean-Francois Frigon

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) offers substantial spectral-efficiency gains, but scaling to very large antenna arrays with conventional all-digital and hybrid beamforming architectures quickly results in excessively high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Carolina Nolasco-Ferencikova , Georg Schwan , Raphael Rolny , Alexander Stutz-Tirri , Christoph Studer

Hybrid beamforming is known to be a cost-effective and wide-spread solution for a system with large-scale antenna arrays. This work studies the optimization of the analog and digital components of the hybrid beamforming solution for remote…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Jaein Kim , Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Inkyu Lee , Shlomo Shamai

In this paper, we propose a two-stage analog combining architecture for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications with hybrid analog/digital beamforming and low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). We first derive a two-stage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Jinseok Choi , Gilwon Lee , Brian L. Evans

This paper proposes a hybrid beamforming framework for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) in near-space airship-borne communications. To achieve high energy efficiency (EE) in energy-constraint airships, a dynamic subarray…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ruiqi Wang , Zhen Gao , Keke Ying , Ziwei Wan , Symeon Chatzinotas , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this paper, we propose an analog beamsteering approach for enabling flexible hybrid beamforming design that can achieve performance close to singular value decomposition (SVD) based digital beamforming with single user case. As a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Yaning Zou , Wolfgang Rave , Gerhard Fettweis

In this paper we study the spectral efficiency (SE) of a point-to-point massive multiple-input multiple-output system (P2P-massive MIMO) with limited radio frequency (RF) chains, i.e., analog-to-digital/ digital-to-analog (D2A/A2D) modules,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Yasemin Karacora , Ali Kariminezhad , Aydin Sezgin

To enable user diversity and multiplexing gains, a fully digital precoding multiple input multiple output (MIMO) architecture is typically applied. However, a large number of radio frequency (RF) chains make the system unrealistic to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-02 Tongyang Xu , Christos Masouros , Izzat Darwazeh

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) systems require efficient beamforming architectures to jointly support communication and sensing functionalities. To reduce hardware overhead, Hybrid Beamforming (HBF) has been widely studied and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Jiangong Chen , Xia Lei , Yuchen Zhang , Kaitao Meng , Christos Masouros

Hybrid beamforming (HB) has been widely studied for reducing the number of costly radio frequency (RF) chains in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. However, previous works on HB are limited to a single user equipment…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Dengkui Zhu , Boyu Li , Ping Liang

Medium-scale or large-scale receive antenna array with digital beamforming can be employed at receiver to make a significant interference reduction, but leads to expensive cost and high complexity of the RF-chain circuit. To deal with this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Linlin Sun , Yaolu Qin , Feng Shu , Riqing Chen , Yijin Zhang , Shuping Yang , Jinhui Lu , Jun Li , Jiangzhou Wang

The uplink where both the transmitter and receiver can use a large antenna array is considered. This is proposed as a method of antenna offloading and connecting small cell access points (SCAP) in a Two-Tier cellular network. Due to having…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Namal Rajatheva , Elvino Sousa

Millimeter wave (mmWave) is a key technology for fifth-generation (5G) and beyond communications. Hybrid beamforming has been proposed for large-scale antenna systems in mmWave communications. Existing hybrid beamforming designs based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-07 Chia-Ho Kuo , Hsin-Yuan Chang , Ronald Y. Chang , Wei-Ho Chung

Hybrid multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is an attractive technology for realizing extreme massive MIMO systems envisioned for future wireless communications in a scalable and power-efficient manner. However, the fact that hybrid MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Nir Shlezinger , Mengyuan Ma , Ortal Lavi , Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Yonina C. Eldar , Markku Juntti

Hybrid beamforming (HBF) is an attractive technology for practical massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) millimeter wave (mmWave) systems. Compared with the fully-connected HBF architecture, the partially-connected one can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Xingyu Zhao , Tian Lin , Yu Zhu , Jun Zhang