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 high spectral efficiency. In this work, we propose a system model of the SM scheme together with hybrid beamforming at the transmitter and digital combining at the receiver. In the proposed model, spatially-modulated bits are mapped onto indices of antenna arrays. It is shown that the proposed model achieves approximately 5dB gain over classical multi-user SM scheme with only 8 transmit antennas at each antenna array. This gain can be improved further by increasing the number of transmit antennas at each array without increasing the number of RF chains.

Energy efficient spatial modulation-aided uplink and downlink designs for future millimeterwave (mmWave) large-scale multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) systems are considered. Two novel uplink transceivers are proposed with the aim of considerably reducing the energy consumption at the user terminal, while achieving high spectral efficiency both in uplink and downlink transmissions. System performance is investigated using both stochastic and deterministic channels emulating real world urban scenarios.

Index modulation (IM) techniques can be applied to the different media in order to achieve spectral-and energyefficient communication as well as to the indices of the subcarriers of a generalized frequency division multiplexing (GFDM) data block. In this work, a novel transceiver architecture for multiuser GFDM-IM system is introduced. The performance of the GFDM-IM is studied by considering the bit error rate (BER) as performance metric. It is shown that better BER performance than the classical GFDM and the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) with IM can be achieved by employing IM to the GFDM.

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