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The energy efficiency aspect of cellular networks is a vital topic of research over the recent days. As energy consumption is on the rise and the price of electricity is increasing very rapidly, necessity to reduce electricity usage in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Imtiaz Nasim , Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury , Md. Syadus Sefat

To accommodate the explosive wireless traffics, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is regarded as one of the key enabling technologies for next-generation communication systems. In massive MIMO cellular networks, coordinated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Jungang Ge , Ying-Chang Liang , Liao Zhang , Ruizhe Long , Sumei Sun

In this paper, we consider the downlink of a massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) single user transmission system operating in the millimeter wave outdoor narrowband channel environment. We propose a novel receive spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Ahmed Raafat , Adrian Agustin , Josep Vidal

Internet-of-things (IoT) is gaining popularity in recent times. Cellular network can be an appropriate solution for the IoT connectivity. With the exponential increase in the number of connected IoT devices, energy consumption is a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Syed Waqas Haider Shah , Ahmad Talal Riaz , Zahoor Fatima

In this letter, we consider the uplink of a cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network where each user is decoded by a subset of access points (APs). An additional step is introduced in the cell-free Massive MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Carmen D'Andrea , Erik G. Larsson

While the deployment of base stations (BSs) becomes increasingly dense in order to accommodate the growth in traffic demand, these BSs may be under-utilized during most hours except peak hours. Accordingly, the deactivation of these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-19 Taesoo Kwon

Contrary to conventional massive MIMO cellular configurations plagued by inter-cell interference, cell-free massive MIMO systems distribute network resources across the coverage area, enabling users to connect with multiple access points…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Giovanni Di Gennaro , Amedeo Buonanno , Gianmarco Romano , Stefano Buzzi , Francesco A. N Palmieri

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) has emerged as an alternative deployment for conventional cellular massive MIMO networks. Prior works relied on the strong assumption (quite idealized) that the APs are uniformly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Marco Di Renzo , Symeon Chatzinotas , John M. Senior

Cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is considered, where distributed access points (APs) multiply the received signal by the conjugate of the estimated channel, and send back a quantized version of this weighted signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Manijeh Bashar , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Alister G. Burr , Hien Quoc Ngo , Merouane Debbah , Pei Xiao

This study considers a point-to-point wireless link, in which both the transmitter and receiver are equipped with multiple antennas. In addition, two reconfigurable metasurfaces are deployed, one in the immediate vicinity of the transmit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Robert Kuku Fotock , Alessio Zappone , Agbotiname Lucky Imoize , Marco Di Renzo

Massive MIMO systems promise high data rates by employing large number of antennas, which also increases the power usage of the system as a consequence. This creates an optimization problem which specifies how many antennas the system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Masoud Arash , Ehsan Yazdian , Mohammad sadegh Fazel , Glauber Brante , Muhammad Imran

In this study, we revisit the performance analysis of distributed beamforming architectures in dense user-centric cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems in line-of-sight (LoS) scenarios. By incorporating a recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Noor Ul Ain , Lorenzo Miretti , Sławomir Stańczak

In this work, a new energy-efficiency performance metric is proposed for MIMO (multiple input multiple output) point-to-point systems. In contrast with related works on energy-efficiency, this metric translates the effects of using finite…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Vineeth S. Varma , Samson Lasaulce , Merouane Debbah , Salah Eddine Elayoubi

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are regarded as key enablers of next-generation wireless communications, due to their capability of customizing the wireless propagation environment. In this paper, we investigate power-efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

User scheduling and beamforming design are two crucial yet coupled topics for wireless communication systems. They are usually optimized separately with conventional optimization methods. In this paper, a novel cross-layer optimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Shiwen He , Zhenyu An , Jianyue Zhu , Min Zhang , Yongming Huang , Yaoxue Zhang

Imagine a coverage area where each mobile device is communicating with a preferred set of wireless access points (among many) that are selected based on its needs and cooperate to jointly serve it, instead of creating autonomous cells. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

We reconsider the problem of joint power control and beamforming design to maximize the weighted sum rate in large and potentially cell-free massive MIMO networks. In contrast to the available short-term methods, where an iterative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Lorenzo Miretti , Emil Björnson , Sławomir Stańczak

This paper considers a massive MIMO system under the double scattering channels. We derive a closed-form expression of the uplink ergodic spectral efficiency (SE) by exploiting the maximum-ratio combining technique with imperfect channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Merouane Debbah

A key aspect of the fifth-generation wireless communication network will be the integration of different services and technologies to provide seamless connectivity. In this paper, we consider using massive multiple-input multiple-output…

In this paper, we investigate a cell-free massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO)-enabled integration communication, computation, and sensing (ICCS) system, aiming to minimize the maximum computation latency to guarantee the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Qihao Peng , Qu Luo , Zheng Chu , Zihuai Lin , Maged Elkashlan , Pei Xiao , George K. Karagiannidis , Christos Masouros