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In the near-field context, the Fresnel approximation is typically employed to mathematically represent solvable functions of spherical waves. However, these efforts may fail to take into account the significant increase in the lower limit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Xufeng Guo , Yuanbin Chen , Ying Wang , Zhaocheng Wang , Chau Yuen

Extremely large-scale massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) has shown considerable potential in future mobile communications. However, the use of extremely large aperture arrays has led to near-field and spatial non-stationary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Yu Han , Shi Jin , Chao-Kai Wen , Xiaoli Ma

The deployment of Extremely Large-Scale Antenna Arrays for 6G enables radiative near-field sensing but poses significant challenges in terms of hardware complexity and interference. Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces (SIMs) address these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Andrea Abrardo , Bartoli Giulio

The spherical nature of the wavefronts exhibited in the near-field of antenna arrays enables advanced beamforming capabilities, such as beampointing and beamnulling. In this paper, we exploit these properties to design a near-field beam…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Laurence Defraigne , Gilles Monnoyer , Jérôme Louveaux , Luc Vandendorpe

Large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) holds great promise for the fifth-generation (5G) and future communication systems. In near-field scenarios, the spherical wavefront model is commonly utilized to accurately depict the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Hao Jiang , Wangqi Shi , Xiao Chen , Qiuming Zhu , Zhen Chen

The majority of stochastic channel models rely on the electromagnetic far-field assumption, which allows to decompose the channel in terms of plane waves. The far-field assumption breaks down in future applications that push towards the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Andrea Pizzo , Luca Sanguinetti , Thomas L. Marzetta

This paper studies wideband channel estimation for OFDM systems assisted by extremely large RIS (XL-RIS). Due to the large aperture of XL-RISs, the user equipment may operate in the near-field region, while the base station-XL-RIS link…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Lanqing Zhi , Hongwei Wang , Lingxiang Li , Zhi Chen

In this study, a channel estimator for millimeter wave (mmWave) systems is proposed. By considering the sparse nature of channels in millimeter wave band, the channel estimation problem formulated as an atomic norm minimization problem.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-13 Mahdi Eskandari , Hamidreza Bakhshi

Synchronization of transceiver chains is a major challenge in the practical realization of massive MIMO and especially distributed massive MIMO. While frequency synchronization is comparatively easy to achieve, estimating the carrier phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-23 Florian Euchner , Phillip Stephan , Marc Gauger , Stephan ten Brink

A low-complexity convolutional neural network estimator which learns the minimum mean squared error channel estimator for single-antenna users was recently proposed. We generalize the architecture to the estimation of MIMO channels with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-27 B. Fesl , N. Turan , M. Koller , W. Utschick

A method for channel estimation in wideband massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems using covariance identification is developed. The method is useful for Frequency-Division Duplex (FDD) at either sub-6GHz or millimeter wave…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 José González-Coma , Pedro Suárez-Casal , Paula M. Castro , Luis Castedo , Michael Joham

Large-scale multiple-antenna systems have been identified as a promising technology for the next generation of wireless systems. However, by scaling up the number of receive antennas the energy consumption will also increase. One possible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Z. Shao , L. Landau , R. C. de Lamare

The millimeter wave is a promising technique for the next generation of mobile communication. The large antenna array is able to provide sufficient precoding gain to overcome the high pathloss at millimeter wave band. However, the accurate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-31 Wei Zhang , Shu-Hung Leung , Taejoon Kim

The recently introduced atomic norm minimization (ANM) framework for parameter estimation is a promising candidate towards low overhead channel estimation in wireless communications. However, previous works on ANM-based channel estimation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Stelios Stefanatos , Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai , Gerhard Wunder

The resolution is an important performance metric of near-field communication networks. In particular, the resolution of near field beamforming measures how effectively users can be distinguished in the distance-angle domain, which is one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Chenguang Rao , Zhiguo Ding , Octavia A. Dobre , Xuchu Dai

To achieve high data rates defined in 5G, the use of millimeter-waves and massive-MIMO are indispensable. To benefit from these technologies, an accurate estimation of the channel parameters is crucial. We propose a novel two-stage…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Fazal-E-Asim , Felix Antreich , Charles C. Cavalcante , André L. F. de Almeida , Josef A. Nossek

The problem of estimating the parameters of a moving target in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar is considered and a new approach for estimating the moving target parameters by making use of the phase information associated with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Aboulnasr Hassanien , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Alex B. Gershman

We propose a new scheme for the robust estimation of the millimeter wave (mmWave) channel. Our approach is based on a sparse formulation of the channel estimation problem coupled with a frame theoretic representation of the sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-09 Razvan-Andrei Stoica , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Hiroki Iimori

In this paper the problem of assessing bounds on the accuracy of pilot-based estimation of a bandlimited frequency selective communication channel is tackled. Mean square error is taken as a figure of merit in channel estimation and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-14 Francesco Montorsi , Giorgio M. Vitetta

This paper proposes a polyline shaped array based system scheme, associated with mechanical scanning along the perpendicular direction of the array, for near-field millimeter-wave (MMW) imaging. Each section of the polyline is a chord of a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Shuoguang Wang , Shiyong Li , Guoqiang Zhao , Houjun Sun