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The uplink of a wireless network with base stations distributed according to a Poisson Point Process (PPP) is analyzed. The base stations are assumed to have a large number of antennas and use linear minimum-mean-square-error (MMSE) spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Siddhartan Govindasamy

In this paper, we consider the (global and sum) energy efficiency optimization problem in downlink multi-input multi-output multi-cell systems, where all users suffer from multi-user interference. This is a challenging problem due to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Yang Yang , Marius Pesavento , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) offers significant advantages in mobility scenarios, mainly due to the elimination of cell boundaries and strong macro diversity. In this paper, we examine the downlink performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Ziheng Liu , Jiayi Zhang , Yiyang Zhu , Enyu Shi , Bo Ai

A large-scale distributed antenna system that serves the users by coherent joint transmission is called Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple input multiple output). For a given user set, only a subset of the access points (APs) is likely needed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Decoupling uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) is a new architectural paradigm where DL and UL are not constrained to be associated to the same base station (BS). Building upon this paradigm, the goal of the present paper is to provide lower,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Alexis I. Aravanis , Olga Munoz , Antonio Pascual-Iserte , Josep Vidal

In this paper, we investigate a multi-cell six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) network for enhancing downlink communication performance under inter-cell interference (ICI). Each base station (BS) is equipped with multiple 6DMA surfaces,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Qijun Jiang , Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang

A cellular multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink system is studied in which each base station (BS) transmits to some of the users, so that each user receives its intended signal from a subset of the BSs. This scenario is referred…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-12 Saeed Kaviani , Osvaldo Simeone , Witold A Krzymień , Shlomo Shamai

This work focuses on the downlink communication of a multiuser MIMO system where the base station antennas and the users' receiving antennas are all active, but at each transmission, only a subset of the receive antennas is selected by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-21 Azucena Duarte , Raimundo Sampaio-Neto

The performance of multiuser systems is both difficult to measure fairly and to optimize. Most resource allocation problems are non-convex and NP-hard, even under simplifying assumptions such as perfect channel knowledge, homogeneous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-27 Emil Björnson , Gan Zheng , Mats Bengtsson , Björn Ottersten

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems achieve high sum spectral efficiency by offering an order of magnitude increase in multiplexing gains. In time division duplexing systems, however, the reuse of uplink training pilots…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Geert Leus , Robert W. Heath

In this paper, we analyze the benefits of including downlink pilots in a cell-free massive MIMO system. We derive an approximate per-user achievable downlink rate for conjugate beamforming processing, which takes into account both uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Giovanni Interdonato , Hien Quoc Ngo , Erik G. Larsson , Pål Frenger

Cell-free Massive MIMO systems consist of a large number of geographically distributed access points (APs) that serve users by coherent joint transmission. Downlink power allocation is important in these systems, to determine which APs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Sucharita Chakraborty , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

Multi-tier networks with large-array base stations (BSs) that are able to operate in the "massive MIMO" regime are envisioned to play a key role in meeting the exploding wireless traffic demands. Operated over small cells with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Qiaoyang Ye , Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu , Haralabos C. Papadopoulos

This paper introduces a practical precoding method for the downlink of Filter Bank Multicarrier-based (FBMC-based) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The proposed method comprises a two-stage precoder, consisting of a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-20 Hamed Hosseiny , Arman Farhang , Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny

Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) technology is going to be a viable alternative for future generation wireless broadband services in order to meet the striving requirements for throughput and system robustness. In Long Term Evolution…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-08 Sunil Joshi , Deepak Gupta

This paper considers a downlink cell-free multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network in which multiple multi-antenna access points (APs) serve multiple users via coherent joint transmission. In order to reduce the energy consumption by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Liangzhi Wang , Chen Chen , Jie Zhang , Carlo Fischione

We consider the uplink of a multicell multiuser multiple-input multiple-output system where the channel experiences both small and large-scale fading. The data detection is done by using the linear zero-forcing technique, assuming the base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou , Trung Q. Duong , Erik G. Larsson

Motivated by the ever-growing demand for \emph{green} wireless communications and the advantages of \emph{cell-free} (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, we focus on the design of their downlink for optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Hien Q. Ngo , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas , John M. Senior

This paper considers a single-cell massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system with dual-polarized antennas at both the base station and users. We study a channel model that includes the key practical aspects that arise when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Özgecan Özdogan , Emil Björnson

We address the problem of downlink beamforming for mitigating the co-channel interference in multi-cell OFDMA networks. Based on the network utility maximization framework, we formulate the problem as a non-convex optimization problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Weiqiang Xu , Xiaodong Wang