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We consider a cellular massive MIMO system where swarms of wireless repeaters are deployed to improve coverage. These repeaters are full-duplex relays with small form factors that receive and instantaneously retransmit signals. They can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Jianan Bai , Anubhab Chowdhury , Anders Hansson , Erik G. Larsson

Nonlinear distortion of a multicarrier signal by a transmitter Power Amplifier (PA) can be a serious problem when designing new highly energy-efficient wireless systems. Although the performance of standard reception algorithms is seriously…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Pawel Kryszkiewicz , Hanna Bogucka

Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (CF-mMIMO) systems have emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation wireless communications, offering enhanced spectral efficiency and coverage through distributed antenna arrays. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Mengzhen Liu , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Qian Liu

In what ways could cellular massive MIMO be improved? This technology has already been shown to bring huge performance gains. However, coverage holes and difficulties to transmit multiple streams to multi-antenna users because of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Sara Willhammar , Hiroki Iimori , Joao Vieira , Lars Sundström , Fredrik Tufvesson , Erik G. Larsson

Multi-input multi-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO OFDM) is a key technology for mobile communication systems. However, due to the issue of high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR), the OFDM symbols may suffer from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 Liangyuan Xu , Feifei Gao , Wei Zhang , Shaodan Ma

We consider a multi-user (MU) multiple-input-single-output (MISO) downlink system with M single-antenna users and N transmit antennas with a nonlinear power amplifier (PA) at each antenna. Instead of emitting constant envelope (CE) signals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Hela Jedda , Amine Mezghani , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Josef A. Nossek

In this letter we introduce POLARNet -- power control of multi-layer repeater networks -- for local optimization of SNR given different repeater power constraints. We assume relays or repeaters in groups or layers spatially separated. Under…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Johan Siwerson , Johan Thunberg

Maintaining high energy efficiency (EE) in wireless networks is crucial, particularly with the adoption of massive MIMO technology. This work introduces a resource allocation framework that jointly optimizes transmit power assigned to each…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Siddarth Marwaha , Pawel Kryszkiewicz , Eduard Jorswieck

In multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems, the non-linear behavior of the power amplifiers (PAs) may cause degradation of the linear precoding schemes dealing with interference between user equipments (UEs), e.g., the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Juan Vidal Alegría , Ashkan Sheikhi , Ove Edfors

We consider a wireless network comprising multiple singleantenna repeaters that amplify and instantaneously re-transmit received signals in a full-duplex (FD) communication setting. Specifically, we study a massive multiple-input multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Mohammadali Mohammadi , Dhanushka Kudathanthirige , Himal A. Suraweera , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

The primary source of nonlinear distortion in wireless transmitters is the power amplifier (PA). Conventional digital predistortion (DPD) schemes use high-order polynomials to accurately approximate and compensate for the nonlinearity of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-19 Miao Yao , Munawwar Sohul , Randall Nealy , Vuk Marojevic , Jeffrey Reed

Dealing with nonlinear effects of the radio-frequency(RF) chain is a key issue in the realization of very large-scale multi-antenna (MIMO) systems. Achieving the remarkable gains possible with massive MIMO requires that the signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Amine Mezghani , Daniel Plabst , Lee A. Swindlehurst , Inbar Fijalkow , Josef A. Nossek

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) millimeter wave (mmWave) systems are vulnerable to hardware impairments due to operating at high frequencies and employing a large number of radio- frequency (RF) hardware components. In particular,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Nima N. Moghadam , Gábor Fodor , Mats Bengtsson , David J. Love

Network-controlled repeater (NCR) has been recently considered as a study-item in 3GPP Release 18, and the discussions are continuing in a work-item. In this paper, we introduce the concept of NCRs, as a possible low-complexity device to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Hao Guo , Charitha Madapatha , Behrooz Makki , Boris Dortschy , Lei Bao , Magnus Åström , Tommy Svensson

In this paper, we develop a framework to investigate the performances of different hybrid beamforming architectures for massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems impaired by power amplifier (PA) nonlinearities. Indirect learning…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Murat Babek Salman , Gokhan Muzaffer Guvensen

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

Nonlinear distortion in power amplifiers (PA) can significantly degrade performance of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) communication systems. This paper presents a joint maximum-likelihood channel frequency response and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Sergey V. Zhidkov

A radio frequency (RF) power amplifier (PA) plays an important role to amplify the message signal at higher power to transmit it to a distant receiver. Due to a typical nonlinear behavior of the PA at high power transmission, a digital…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Ganesh Prasad , Håkan Johansson , Rabul Hussain Laskar

Heterogeneous networks have been studied as one of the enablers of network densification. These studies have been intensified to overcome some drawbacks related to propagation in millimeter waves (mmWaves), such as severe path and…

This paper investigates the joint optimization of power allocation and antenna activation in sparse extremely large aperture array systems operating under power amplifier non-linearities. We first derive an analytical expression for the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Alva Kosasih