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In millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems, beamforming with large antenna arrays is critical to overcome high path losses. Separating all-digital beamforming into analog and digital stages can provide the large reduction in power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Junmo Sung , Brian L. Evans

Although the hardware complexity of the analog self-interference canceller in full duplex Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) designs does not necessarily scale with the number of transceiver antennas, exploiting the benefits of analog…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 George C. Alexandropoulos , Md Atiqul Islam , Besma Smida

Classical beamforming techniques rely on highly linear transmitters and receivers to allow phase-coherent combining at the transmitter and receiver. The transmitter uses beamforming to steer signal power towards the receiver, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Kang Gao , J. Nicholas Laneman , Bertrand Hochwald

The demands for high data rates in 6G networks have driven the transition toward higher frequencies and larger antenna apertures, giving rise to the near-field communications. In the near-field region, spherical waves enable beam focusing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Shupei Zhang , Boya Di , Lingyang Song

Antenna arrays will be an important ingredient in millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular systems. A natural application of antenna arrays is simultaneous transmission to multiple users. Unfortunately, the hardware constraints in mmWave systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Geert Leus , Robert W. Heath

This letter develops a novel transmit beamforming (BF) design for canceling self-interference (SI) in analog in-band full-duplex phased arrays. Our design maximizes transmit BF gain in a desired direction while simultaneously reducing SI…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-26 Ao Liu , Ian P. Roberts , Taneli Riihonen , Weixing Sheng

In this paper, we investigate joint beamforming for energy-throughput tradeoff in a sustainable cloud radio access network system, where multiple base stations (BSs) powered by independent renewable energy sources will collaboratively…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Zhao Chen , Ziru Chen , Lin X. Cai , Yu Cheng

Ambient radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting (EH) technology is key to realize self-sustainable, always-on, low-power, massive Internet of Things networks. Typically, rigid (non-adaptable to channel fluctuations) multi-antenna receive…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Onel Luis Alcaraz López , Bruno Clerckx , Matti Latva-aho

We investigate a general channel estimation problem in the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system which employs the hybrid analog/digital precoding structure with limited radio-frequency (RF) chains. By properly designing RF…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Leyuan Pan , Le Liang , Wei Xu , Xiaodai Dong

The cost of radio frequency (RF) chains is the biggest drawback of massive MIMO millimeter wave networks. By employing spatial modulation (SM), it is possible to implement lower number of RF chains than transmit antennas but still achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Merve Yüzgeçcioglu , Eduard Jorswieck

Hybrid analog and digital beamforming (HBF) has been recognized as an attractive technique offering a tradeoff between hardware implementation limitation and system performance for future broadband millimeter wave (mmWave) communications.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-27 Tian Lin , Jiaqi Cong , Yu Zhu

Flexible coupler is a promising solution for enhancing wireless network capacity by moving passive couplers around a fixed-position active antenna to reshape the induced currents on passive elements. Motivated by this, this paper proposes a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xiaodan Shao , Yixiao Zhang , Nan Cheng , Weihua Zhuang , Xuemin Shen

Joint communications and sensing (JCAS) is envisioned as a key feature in future wireless communications networks. In massive MIMO-JCAS systems, hybrid beamforming (HBF) is typically employed to achieve satisfactory beamforming gains with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Ly V. Nguyen , Nir Shlezinger , Yonina C. Eldar , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Markku Juntti

This paper investigates the design of analog beamforming at the receiver in millimeter-wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, aided by full digital chains featuring 1-bit ADCs. We advocate utilizing these full digital…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Lina Liu , Weimin Xiao , Jialing Liu , Zhigang Rong

A near-field wideband communication system is investigated in which a base station (BS) employs an extra-large scale antenna array (ELAA) to serve multiple users in its near-field region. To facilitate near-field multi-user beamforming and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

Hybrid analog and digital beamforming (HBF) has recently emerged as an attractive technique for millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems. It well balances the demand for sufficient beamforming gains to overcome the propagation loss…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Tian Lin , Jiaqi Cong , Yu Zhu , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

We propose a novel receiver architecture that preserves the performance benefits of multiport selection in fluid-antenna systems while requiring only a very small number of radio-frequency (RF) chains. The resulting fluid-antenna hybrid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-25 José P. González-Coma , José David Vega-Sánchez , F. Javier López-Martínez

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication has led to immense enhancements in data rates and efficient spectrum management. The evolution of MIMO, though, has been accompanied by increased hardware complexity and array sizes,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Miguel Rodrigo Castellanos , Siyun Yang , Chan-Byoung Chae , Robert W. Heath

A segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN)-based tri-hybrid beamforming architecture is proposed for uplink multi-user MIMO communications, which jointly optimizes digital, analog, and pinching beamforming. Both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan , Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober

In bi-static Ambient Backscatter Communications (AmBC) systems, the direct path from the ambient source to the receiver can be several orders of magnitude stronger than the scattered path modulated by the AmBC device. Because of the large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Ruifeng Duan , Estifanos Menta , Hüseyin Yiğitler , Riku Jäntti , Zhu Han