Unified Modeling and Performance Comparison for Cellular and Cell-Free Massive MIMO
Information Theory
2024-05-17 v1 Signal Processing
math.IT
Abstract
Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) has recently gained a lot of attention due to its high potential in sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems. The goal of this paper is to first present a unified modeling for massive MIMO, encompassing both cellular and cell-free architectures with a variable number of antennas per access point. We derive signal transmission models and achievable spectral efficiency in both the downlink and uplink using zero-forcing and maximal-ratio schemes. We also provide performance comparisons in terms of per-user and sum spectral efficiency.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2405.09928,
title = {Unified Modeling and Performance Comparison for Cellular and Cell-Free Massive MIMO},
author = {Wei Jiang and Hans D. Schotten},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.09928},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
The Fourth IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (IEEE MEDITCOM 2024)