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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

Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) refers to a distributed Massive MIMO system where all the access points (APs) cooperate to coherently serve all the user equipments (UEs), suppress inter-cell interference and mitigate…

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

In this paper, a new state-of-the-art multi-cell MMSE scheme is proposed for massive MIMO networks, which includes an uplink MMSE detector and a downlink MMSE precoder. The main novelty is that it exploits all available pilots for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Xueru Li , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson , Shidong Zhou , Jing Wang

In this paper, we provide a theoretical framework for the study of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-enabled full-duplex (FD) cellular networks in which the self-interference (SI) channels follow the Rician distribution and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Arman Shojaeifard , Kai-Kit Wong , Marco Di Renzo , Gan Zheng , Khairi Ashour Hamdi , Jie Tang

This correspondence studies the downlink transmission in a multi-cell system, where multiple base stations (BSs) each with multiple antennas cooperatively design their respective transmit beamforming vectors to optimize the overall system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Rui Zhang , Shuguang Cui

We consider a heterogeneous cellular network (HetNet) where a macrocell tier with a large antenna array base station (BS) is overlaid with a dense tier of small cells (SCs). We investigate the potential benefits of incorporating a massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Marios Kountouris , Nikolaos Pappas

This paper studies a two-layer decoding method that mitigates inter-cell interference in multi-cell Massive MIMO systems. In layer one, each base station (BS) estimates the channels to intra-cell users and uses the estimates for local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Trinh Van Chien , Christopher Mollén , Emil Björnson

We study the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) multicast transmission in cellular networks where each base station (BS) is equipped with a large-scale antenna array and transmits a common message using a single beamformer to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zhengzheng Xiang , Meixia Tao , Xiaodong Wang

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

Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) is foreseen to be one of the main technology components in next generation cellular communications (5G). In this paper, fundamental limits on the performance of downlink massive MIMO systems are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-20 Fredrik Athley , Giuseppe Durisi , Ulf Gustavsson

In this paper we consider a time-division duplex cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where many distributed access points (APs) simultaneously serve many users. A normalized conjugate beamforming scheme, which…

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

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

Cell-Free Massive Multiple-input Multiple-output (mMIMO) consists of many access points (APs) in a coverage area that jointly serve the users. These systems can significantly reduce the interference among the users compared to conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Abbas Khalili , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

Massive multiple-inputmultiple-output (MIMO) systems, dense small-cells (SCs), and full duplex are three candidate techniques for next-generation communication systems. The cooperation of next-generation techniques could offer more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Boyu Li , Dengkui Zhu , Ping Liang

When small cells are densely deployed in the fifth generation (5G) cellular networks, switching off a part of base stations (BSs) is a practical approach for saving energy consumption considering the variation of traffic load. The small…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Jiaqi Chen , Xiaohu Ge , Xueying Song , Yi Zhong

We consider the uplink of a Massive MIMO network with $L$ cells, each comprising a BS with $M$ antennas and $K$ single-antenna user equipments. Recently, [1] studied the asymptotic spectral efficiency of such networks with optimal multicell…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Luca Sanguinetti , Emil Björnson , Abla Kammoun

Wireless cellular communication networks are bandwidth and interference limited. An important means to overcome these resource limitations is the use of multiple antennas. Base stations equipped with a very large (massive) number of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-05 Uri Erez , Amir Leshem

This paper studies the benefits of incorporating underlaid full-duplex (FD) device-to-device (D2D) communications into massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) downlink systems. Due to the nature of cellular downlink and FD D2D…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 Hung V. Vu , Tho Le-Ngoc

This paper is concerned with massive-MIMO systems over Rician flat fading channels. In order to reduce the overhead to obtain full channel state information and to avoid the pilot contamination problem, by treating the scattered component…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Dian-Wu Yue , Geoffrey Ye Li

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