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As network deployments become denser, interference arises as a dominant performance degradation factor. To confront with this trend, Long Term Evolution (LTE) incorporated features aiming at enabling cooperation among different base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 George C. Alexandropoulos , Paul Ferrand , Constantinos B. Papadias

Multi-cell wireless systems usually suffer both intra-cell and inter-cell interference, which can be mitigated via coordinated multipoint (CoMP) techniques. Previous works on multi-cell analysis for the microwave band generally consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Shu Sun , Theodore S. Rappaport , Mansoor Shafi

In this paper we consider a time-division duplex cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where many distributed access points (APs) simultaneously serve many users. A normalized conjugate beamforming scheme, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Giovanni Interdonato , Hien Quoc Ngo , Erik G. Larsson , Pål Frenger

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

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, which exploit many geographically distributed access points to coherently serve user equipments via spatial multiplexing on the same time-frequency resource, has become a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Bo Ai , Mérouane Debbah , Khaled B. Letaief

In this paper, we consider multigroup multicast transmissions with different types of service messages in an overloaded multicarrier system, where the number of transmitter antennas is insufficient to mitigate all inter-group interference.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Hongzhi Chen , De Mi , Zheng Chu , Pei Xiao , Rahim Tafazolli

We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output system with multi-antenna access points (APs) and user equipments (UEs), where the UEs can be served in both the downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) within a resource block. We tackle…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Bikshapathi Gouda , Antti Arvola , Italo Atzeni , Antti Tölli

Hybrid beamforming for frequency-selective channels is a challenging problem as the phase shifters provide the same phase shift to all of the subcarriers. The existing approaches solely rely on the channel's frequency response and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Sohail Payami , Mathini Sellathurai , Konstantinos Nikitopoulos

Hybrid beamforming is vital in modern wireless systems, especially for massive MIMO and millimeter-wave (mmWave) deployments, offering efficient directional transmission with reduced hardware complexity. However, effective beamforming in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Weicao Deng , Min Li , Ming-Min Zhao , Min-Jian Zhao , Osvaldo Simeone

In this paper we study energy efficient joint power allocation and beamforming for coordinated multicell multiuser downlink systems. The considered optimization problem is in a non-convex fractional form and hard to tackle. We propose to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-09 He Shiwen , Huang Yongming , Jin Shi , Yang Luxi

Providing guaranteed quality of service for cell-edge users remains a longstanding challenge in wireless networks. While coordinated interference management was proposed decades ago, its potential has been limited by computational…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Tenghao Cai , Lei Li , Shutao Zhang , Tsung-Hui Chang

The growing demand for efficient delivery of common content to multiple user equipments (UEs) has motivated significant research in physical-layer multicasting. By exploiting the beamforming capabilities of massive MIMO, multicasting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Mahmoud Zaher , Emil Björnson

We consider the interference management problem in a multicell MIMO heterogenous network. Within each cell there are a large number of distributed micro/pico base stations (BSs) that can be potentially coordinated for joint transmission. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Mingyi Hong , Ruo-Yu Sun , Hadi Baligh , Zhi-Quan Luo

One key feature of massive multiple-input multiple-output systems is the large number of antennas and users. As a result, reducing the computational complexity of beamforming design becomes imperative. To this end, the goal of this paper is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Shuai Wang , Lei Cheng , Minghua Xia , Yik-Chung Wu

This paper studies multi-satellite multi-stream (MSMS) beamspace transmission, where multiple satellites cooperate to form a distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system and jointly deliver multiple data streams to multi-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Yafei Wang , Yiming Zhu , Vu Nguyen Ha , Wenjin Wang , Rui Ding , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

In this paper, we propose a beamforming design for dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) systems at the millimeter wave (mmWave) band, where hybrid beamforming and sub-arrayed MIMO radar techniques are jointly exploited. We assume that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-25 Fan Liu , Christos Masouros

This study investigates subarray-level movable antenna (MA) architecture for multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) systems. Unlike conventional systems with fixed-position antennas (FPAs), the proposed scheme harnesses the additional positional degrees…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Shanshan Zhang , Songjie Yang , Wenxuan Zhang , Youzhi Xiong , Siya Yao

Large-scale MIMO systems have been considered as one of the possible candidates for the next-generation wireless communication technique, due to their potential to provide significant higher throughput than conventional wireless systems.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-06 Dengkui Zhu , Boyu Li , Ping Liang

Massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) is unquestionably a key enabler of the fifth-generation (5G) technology for mobile systems, enabling to meet the high requirements of upcoming mobile broadband services. Physical-layer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Alejandro de la Fuente , Giovanni Interdonato , Giuseppe Araniti

Multi-cell coordinated beamforming (MCBF), where multiple base stations (BSs) collaborate with each other in the beamforming design for mitigating the inter-cell interference, has been a subject drawing great attention recently. Most MCBF…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Chao Shen , Tsung-Hui Chang , Kun-Yu Wang , Zhengding Qiu , Chong-Yung Chi