{"title":"Transmissive RIS Transmitter Enabled Spatial Modulation MIMO Systems","authors":"Xusheng Zhu;Qingqing Wu;Wen Chen","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2025.3536542","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2025.3536542","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a novel transmissive reconfigurable intelligent surface (TRIS) transmitter-enabled spatial modulation (SM) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. In the transmission stage, a column-control activation strategy is implemented for the TRIS panel, where the specific column elements are activated per time slot. Concurrently, the receiver employs the maximum likelihood detection technique. Based on this, for the transmit signals, we derive the closed-form expressions for the upper bounds of the average bit error probability (ABEP) of the proposed scheme from different perspectives, employing both vector-based and element-based approaches. Furthermore, we provide the asymptotic closed-form expressions for the ABEP of the TRIS-SM scheme, as well as the diversity gain. To improve the performance of the proposed TRIS-SM system, we optimize ABEP with a fixed data rate. Additionally, we provide lower bounds to simplify the computational complexity of improved TRIS-SM scheme. The Monte Carlo simulation method is used to validate the theoretical derivations exhaustively. The results demonstrate that the proposed TRIS-SM scheme can achieve better ABEP performance compared to the conventional SM scheme. Furthermore, the improved TRIS-SM scheme outperforms the TRIS-SM scheme in terms of reliability.","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":"43 3","pages":"899-911"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143417861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Precoder Design for User-Centric Network Massive MIMO With Matrix Manifold Optimization","authors":"Rui Sun;Li You;An-An Lu;Chen Sun;Xiqi Gao;Xiang-Gen Xia","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2025.3536504","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2025.3536504","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate the precoder design for user-centric network (UCN) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) downlink with matrix manifold optimization. In UCN mMIMO systems, each user terminal (UT) is served by a subset of base stations (BSs) instead of all the BSs, facilitating the implementation of the system and lowering the dimension of the precoders to be designed. By proving that the precoder set satisfying the per-BS power constraints forms a Riemannian submanifold of a linear product manifold, we transform the constrained precoder design problem in Euclidean space to an unconstrained one on the Riemannian submanifold. Riemannian ingredients, including orthogonal projection, Riemannian gradient, retraction and vector transport, of the problem on the Riemannian submanifold are further derived, with which the Riemannian conjugate gradient (RCG) design method is proposed for solving the unconstrained problem. The proposed method avoids the inverses of large dimensional matrices, which is beneficial in practice. The complexity analyses show the high computational efficiency of RCG precoder design. Simulation results demonstrate the numerical superiority of the proposed precoder design and the high efficiency of the UCN mMIMO system.","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":"43 3","pages":"705-719"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143417860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrated Location Sensing and Communication for Ultra-Massive MIMO With Hybrid-Field Beam-Squint Effect","authors":"Zhen Gao;Xingyu Zhou;Boyu Ning;Yu Su;Tong Qin;Dusit Niyato","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2025.3531551","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2025.3531551","url":null,"abstract":"The advent of ultra-massive multiple-input-multiple-output (UM-MIMO) systems holds great promise for next-generation communications, yet their channels exhibit hybrid far- and near- field beam-squint (HFBS) effect. In this paper, we not only overcome but also harness the HFBS effect to propose an integrated location sensing and communication (ILSC) framework. During the uplink training stage, user terminals (UTs) transmit reference signals for simultaneous channel estimation and location sensing. This stage leverages an elaborately designed hybrid-field projection matrix to overcome the HFBS effect and estimate the channel in compressive manner. Subsequently, the scatterers’ locations can be sensed from the spherical wavefront based on the channel estimation results. By treating the sensed scatterers as virtual anchors, we employ a weighted least-squares approach to derive the UT’s location. Moreover, we propose an iterative refinement mechanism, which utilizes the accurately estimated time difference of arrival (TDoA) of multipath components to enhance location sensing precision. In the following downlink data transmission stage, we leverage the acquired location information to further optimize the hybrid beamformer, which combines the beam broadening and focusing to mitigate the spectral efficiency degradation resulted from the HFBS effect. Extensive simulation experiments demonstrate that the proposed ILSC scheme has superior location sensing and communication performance than conventional methods.","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":"43 4","pages":"1387-1404"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143417862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaotong Zhao;Mian Li;Bo Wang;Enbin Song;Tsung-Hui Chang;Qingjiang Shi
{"title":"Efficient LMMSE Equalization for Massive MIMO Systems Under Decentralized Baseband Processing Architecture","authors":"Xiaotong Zhao;Mian Li;Bo Wang;Enbin Song;Tsung-Hui Chang;Qingjiang Shi","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2025.3531524","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2025.3531524","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, the decentralized baseband processing (DBP) paradigm and relevant uplink detection methods have been proposed to enable extremely large-scale massive multiple-input multiple-output technology. Under the DBP architecture, base station antennas are divided into several independent clusters, each connected to a local computing fabric. However, current detection methods tailored to DBP only consider ideal white Gaussian noise scenarios, while in practice, the noise is often colored due to interference from neighboring cells. Moreover, in the DBP architecture, linear minimum mean-square error (LMMSE) detection methods require the knowledge of noise covariance matrix which must be estimated using distributedly stored noise samples. This presents a significant challenge for decentralized LMMSE-based equalizer design. To address this issue, this paper proposes decentralized LMMSE equalization methods under colored noise scenarios for both star and daisy chain DBP architectures. Specifically, we first propose two decentralized equalizers for the star DBP architecture based on dimensionality reduction techniques. Then, we derive an optimal decentralized equalizer using the block coordinate descent method for the daisy chain DBP architecture with a bandwidth reduction enhancement scheme based on decentralized low-rank decomposition. Finally, simulation results demonstrate that our proposed methods can achieve excellent detection performance while requiring much less communication bandwidth.","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":"43 3","pages":"736-751"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143125155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Design of Variable Modulation and Adaptive Modulation for Uplink Sparse Code Multiple Access","authors":"Qu Luo;Pei Xiao;Gaojie Chen;Jing Zhu","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2025.3536540","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2025.3536540","url":null,"abstract":"Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) is a promising non-orthogonal multiple access scheme for enabling massive connectivity in next generation wireless networks. However, current SCMA codebooks are designed with the same size, leading to inflexibility of user grouping and supporting diverse data rates. To address this issue, we propose a variable modulation SCMA (VM-SCMA) that allows users to employ codebooks with different modulation orders. To guide the VM-SCMA design, a VM matrix (VMM) that assigns modulation orders based on the SCMA factor graph is first introduced. We formulate the VM-SCMA design using the proposed average inverse product distance and the asymptotic upper bound of sum-rate, and jointly optimize the VMM, VM codebooks, power and codebook allocations. The proposed VM-SCMA not only enables diverse date rates but also supports different modulation order combinations for each rate. Leveraging these distinct advantages, we further propose an adaptive VM-SCMA (AVM-SCMA) scheme which adaptively selects the rate and the corresponding VM codebooks to adapt to the users’ channel conditions by maximizing the proposed effective throughput. Simulation results show that the overall designs are able to simultaneously achieve a high-level system flexibility, enhanced error rate results, and significantly improved throughput performance, when compared to conventional SCMA schemes.","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":"43 4","pages":"1153-1167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143071412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Li Shen;Yongpeng Wu;Peihong Yuan;Chengshan Xiao;Xiang-Gen Xia;Wenjun Zhang
{"title":"Probabilistic Shaped Multilevel Polar Coding for Wiretap Channel","authors":"Li Shen;Yongpeng Wu;Peihong Yuan;Chengshan Xiao;Xiang-Gen Xia;Wenjun Zhang","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2025.3531539","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2025.3531539","url":null,"abstract":"A wiretap channel is served as the fundamental model of physical layer security techniques, where the secrecy capacity of the Gaussian wiretap channel is proven to be achieved by Gaussian input. However, there remains a gap between the Gaussian secrecy capacity and the secrecy rate with conventional uniformly distributed discrete constellation input, e.g. amplitude shift keying (ASK) and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). In this paper, we propose a probabilistic shaped multilevel polar coding scheme to bridge the gap. Specifically, the input distribution optimization problem for maximizing the secrecy rate with ASK/QAM input is solved. Numerical results show that the resulting sub-optimal solution can still approach the Gaussian secrecy capacity. Then, we investigate the polarization of multilevel polar codes for the asymmetric discrete memoryless wiretap channel, and thus propose a multilevel polar coding scheme integration with probabilistic shaping. It is proved that the scheme can achieve the secrecy capacity of the Gaussian wiretap channel with discrete constellation input, and satisfies the reliability condition and weak security condition. A security-oriented polar code construction method to natively satisfies the leakage-based security condition is also investigated. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves more efficient and secure transmission than the uniform constellation input case over both the Gaussian wiretap channel and the Rayleigh fading wiretap channel.","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":"43 4","pages":"1074-1088"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143071462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yao Zhang;Wenchao Xia;Haitao Zhao;Yijie Mao;Jiayi Zhang;Gan Zheng
{"title":"Enhancing Uplink Performance for Cell-Free Massive MIMO With Low-Resolution ADCs by RSMA","authors":"Yao Zhang;Wenchao Xia;Haitao Zhao;Yijie Mao;Jiayi Zhang;Gan Zheng","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2025.3536544","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2025.3536544","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the potential of employing rate-splitting multiple access to enhance the achievable rate and energy efficiency (EE) of an uplink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, where the access points (APs) are configured with low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) to minimize the hardware expense and power consumption. Taking the large-scale fading decoding, ADC quantization, and imperfect successive interference cancellation into consideration, a rigorous closed-form rate expression is derived within Ricean fading environments. This analytical framework facilitates an in-depth analysis of the rate performance with respect to various system parameters. To quantify the benefits of low-resolution ADCs, a power consumption model is subsequently incorporated into the analysis, facilitating an evaluation of the system’s EE. Furthermore, the optimization of power control coefficients and receiver weights is tackled through the formulation of weighted sum-rate (WSR) and EE maximization problems. Two efficient alternative algorithms are then proposed to determine their optimal solutions. The theoretical propositions and the efficacy of the proposed WSR and EE optimization algorithms are substantiated through comprehensive simulations.","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":"43 3","pages":"720-735"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143071461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploiting Beam Split Effect on Wideband Beam Alignment: A Deep Unfolding Based Posterior Matching Approach","authors":"Qimei Chen;Yang Yang;Xiaoxia Xu;Guangxu Zhu;Jian Zhang;Hao Jiang","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2025.3536503","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2025.3536503","url":null,"abstract":"The massive-antenna wideband millimeter wave (mmWave)/terahertz (THz) systems inevitably suffer from a severe beam split effect due to the non-negligible signal propagation delays, which dramatically reduces communication efficiency. Nevertheless, if the wideband split effect is properly utilized, it can also bring benefits via sensing split directions for channel training. Hence, this paper proposes a novel wideband beam alignment framework with true-time-delayer (TTD) modules, which can fully exploit the controllable split beams for efficient angle-of-arrivals (AoAs) estimation. Moreover, we develop a hierarchical posterior matching (PM) enabled wideband beam alignment approach, which proactively configures the split beams to accelerate the estimation of AoAs posterior probability distributions. To deal with the computational complexity of the predesigned codebook and the insensitivity of the Gaussian distribution assumption in PM, we further introduce a low-complex and high-flexible wideband beam alignment approach based on a deep unfolding mechanism. Numerical results verify that: 1) The proposed framework can significantly improve the AoAs estimation accuracy at the cost of the same pilot overheads. 2) The proposed low-complexity deep unfolding approach outperforms the conventional PM mechanism even in low signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) scenarios.","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":"43 4","pages":"1027-1040"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143071460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hybrid Channel Tracking for THz Massive MIMO Communication Systems in Dynamic Environments","authors":"Yuheng Fan;Chuang Yang;Yanran Sun;Mugen Peng","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2025.3536550","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2025.3536550","url":null,"abstract":"With gigahertz-level bandwidth, terahertz (THz) holds promise for achieving exceptionally high transmission rates in prospective sixth-generation (6G) communications. However, considerable path loss poses an obstacle to THz communications. To compensate for this, massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) based beamforming is utilized to promote directional power with narrow beams in communications. In dynamic environments, the frequent adjustment of narrow beams results in fast time-varying channel state information (CSI), which constrains the application of the THz communication systems. While traditional deterministic-based and statistical-based channel tracking methods address different aspects of this issue, they suffer from balancing accuracy and complexity in the THz dynamic environments. To solve this problem, based on the cluster distribution of THz time-varying channel, we propose a novel hybrid channel tracking method that uses deterministic physical motion variation law to extract the cluster subspace, and then statistical Markov evolution models are applied within it. To achieve this, an integrated clustering and estimation method, clustering subspace matching pursuit (CSMP) is proposed for obtaining the channel clusters prior knowledge. Then based on above hybrid tracking method design, we propose a virtual cluster subspace turbo-approximate message passing (VCS-TAMP). Finally, several simulation results validate that our proposal achieves great improvement in both accuracy and computational time performance.","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":"43 3","pages":"988-1003"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143056654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CSI Transfer From Sub-6G to mmWave: Reduced-Overhead Multi-User Hybrid Beamforming","authors":"Weicao Deng;Min Li;Ming-Min Zhao;Min-Jian Zhao;Osvaldo Simeone","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2025.3536539","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2025.3536539","url":null,"abstract":"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 multi-user scenarios relies heavily on accurate channel state information, the acquisition of which often requires significant pilot overhead, degrading system performance. To address this and inspired by the spatial congruence between sub-6GHz (sub-6G) and mmWave channels, we propose a Sub-6G information Aided Multi-User Hybrid Beamforming (SA-MUHBF) framework, avoiding excessive use of pilots at mmWave. SA-MUHBF employs a convolutional neural network to predict mmWave beamspace from sub-6G channel estimate, followed by a novel multi-layer graph neural network for analog beam selection and a linear minimum mean-square error algorithm for digital beamforming. Numerical results demonstrate that SA-MUHBF efficiently predicts the mmWave beamspace representation and achieves superior spectrum efficiency over state-of-the-art benchmarks. Moreover, SA-MUHBF demonstrates robust performance across varied sub-6G system configurations and exhibits strong generalization to unseen scenarios.","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":"43 3","pages":"973-987"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143057130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}