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Low-complexity Leakage Minimization Beamforming for Large-scale Multi-user Cell-Free Massive MIMO

Signal Processing 2025-09-16 v2

Abstract

We propose a low-complexity beamforming (BF) design for information leakage minimization in multi-user (MU) cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems. Our approach leverages fractional programming (FP) to reformulate the secrecy rate maximization problem into a tractable difference-of-convex form. To efficiently solve the resulting non-convex problem, we employ the Concave-Convex Procedure (CCP), enabling fast convergence to a local optimum. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves secrecy rates comparable to state-of-the-art (SotA) methods, while significantly reducing computational complexity and improving convergence speed.

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@article{arxiv.2508.13067,
  title  = {Low-complexity Leakage Minimization Beamforming for Large-scale Multi-user Cell-Free Massive MIMO},
  author = {Iván Alexander Morales Sandoval and Getuar Rexhepi and Kengo Ando and Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.13067},
  year   = {2025}
}

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