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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,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

Multi-Cell (MC) systems are present in mobile network operations from the first generation to the fifth generation of wireless networks, and considers the signals of all users to a base station (BS) centered in a cell. Cell-Free (CF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-04 E. F. de Almeida , R. C. de Lamare

In this paper, we consider massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems for both downlink and uplink scenarios, where three radio units (RUs) connected via one digital unit (DU) support multiple user equipments (UEs) at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yeon-Geun Lim , Chan-Byoung Chae , Giuseppe Caire

This paper presents an energy-efficient downlink precoding scheme with the objective of maximizing system energy efficiency in a multi-cell massive MIMO system. The proposed precoding design jointly considers the issues of power control,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Shuai Zhang , Lu Liu , Yu Cheng , Xianghui Cao , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu , Hangguan Shan

We study a two-tier macrocell/femtocell system where the macrocell base station is equipped with multiple antennas and makes use of multiuser MIMO (spatial multiplexing), and the femtocells are "cognitive". In particular, we assume that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-08 Ansuman Adhikary , Giuseppe Caire

In this work, we consider the problem of multiuser scheduling for the downlink of cell-free massive multi-input multi-output networks with clustering. In particular, we develop a multiuser scheduling algorithm based on an enhanced greedy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 S. Mashdour , R. C. de Lamare , J. P. Sales

Non-cooperative cellular massive MIMO, combined with power control, is known to lead to significant improvements in per-user throughput compared with conventional LTE technology. In this paper, we investigate further refinements to massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Shahram Shahsavari , Mehrdad Nosrati , Parisa Hassanzadeh , Alexei Ashikhmin , Thomas L. Marzetta , Elza Erkip

Recently, the so-called cell-free Massive MIMO architecture has been introduced, wherein a very large number of distributed access points (APs) simultaneously and jointly serve a much smaller number of mobile stations (MSs). A variant of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Stefano Buzzi , Alessio Zappone

This paper investigates the downlink channels in multi-cell multi-user interfering networks. The goal is to propose close-form designs to obtain degrees of freedom (DoF) in high SNR region for the network composed of base stations (BS) as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-20 Haichuan Zhou , Tharm Ratnarajah

The long-term average performance of the MISO downlink channel, with a large number of users compared to transmit antennas of the BS, depends on the interference management which necessitates the joint design problem of scheduling and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-14 Ashok Bandi , Bhavani Shankar Mysore R , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

This paper considers a multiuser massive multiple-input multiple-output uplink with the help of an analog amplify-and-forward relay. The base station equips a large array of $N_d$ antennas but is supported by a far smaller number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Jindan Xu , Yucheng Wang , Wei Xu , Shi Jin , Hong Shen , Xiaohu You

We consider the downlink of a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where large number of access points (APs) simultaneously serve a group of users. Two fundamental problems are of interest, namely (i) to maximize…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Muhammad Farooq , Hien Quoc Ngo , Le-Nam Tran

We investigate the possible performance gains of power control in multi-layer cellular systems where microcells and picocells are distributed within macrocells. Although multilayers in cellular networks help increase system capacity and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-03-29 Kemal Davaslioglu , Ender Ayanoglu

This paper considers a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system that consists of a large number of geographically distributed access points (APs) serving multiple users via coherent joint transmission. The downlink…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-15 Mahmoud Zaher , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Marina Petrova

In this paper, we investigate downlink power control in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks with distributed antenna arrays. The base station (BS) in each cell consists of multiple antenna arrays, which are deployed in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Noman Akbar , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson , Nan Yang

Power allocation is an important task in wireless communication networks. Classical optimization algorithms and deep learning methods, while effective in small and static scenarios, become either computationally demanding or unsuitable for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Irched Chafaa , Giacomo Bacci , Luca Sanguinetti

Clustered cell-free networks have emerged as a promising architecture for sixth generation ultra-dense wireless communication systems by enabling local cooperation among base stations while controlling system complexity. For resource…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Panpan Niu , Han Hao , Hao Wu , Junyuan Wang

We develop a framework for downlink heterogeneous cellular networks with line-of-sight (LoS) and non-line-of-sight (NLoS) transmissions. Using stochastic geometry, we derive tight approximation of achievable downlink rate that enables us to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Qi Zhang , Howard H. Yang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Jemin Lee

This paper investigates the downlink (DL) transmit design for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite communication systems, where only the slow-varying statistical channel state information is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Ke-Xin Li , Li You , Jiaheng Wang , Xiqi Gao , Christos G. Tsinos , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

This paper proposes a flexible pilot assignment method to jointly optimize the uplink and downlink data transmission in multi-cell Massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems with correlated Rayleigh fading channels. By utilizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Tien Hoa Nguyen , Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Xuan Nam Tran , Emil Björnson