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Massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) transmission is a promising technology to improve the capacity and reliability of wireless systems. However, the number of antennas that can be equipped at a base station (BS) is limited by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Abla Kammoun , Mérouane Debbah , and Mohamed-Slim Alouini

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

In a heterogeneous network (HetNet) with a large number of low power base stations (BSs), proper user-BS association and power control is crucial to achieving desirable system performance. In this paper, we systematically study the joint BS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ruoyu Sun , Mingyi Hong , Zhi-Quan Luo

Massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) has evolved along two tracks: cellular and cell-free, each with unique advantages and limitations. The cellular approach suffers from worse user spectral efficiency at cell edges, whereas the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

This letter considers the problem of joint user association (UA), sub-channel assignment, antenna selection (AS), and power control in the uplink (UL) of a heterogeneous network such that the data rate of small cell users can be maximized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Ata Khalili , Soroush Akhlaghi , Hina Tabassum , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Movable antennas (MAs) are a promising paradigm to enhance the spatial degrees of freedom of conventional multi-antenna systems by flexibly adapting the positions of the antenna elements within a given transmit area. In this paper, we model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yifei Wu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wolfgang Gerstacker , Robert Schober

Ubiquitous cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) combines massive MIMO technology and user-centric transmission in a distributed architecture. All the access points (APs) in the network cooperate to jointly and coherently…

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

We investigate the spectral efficiency of full-duplex small cell wireless systems, in which a full-duplex capable base station (BS) is designed to send/receive data to/from multiple halfduplex users on the same system resources. The major…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Dan Nguyen , Le-Nam Tran , Pekka Pirinen , Matti Latva-aho

We consider a cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system and investigate the system performance for the case when the quantized version of the estimated channel and the quantized received signal are available at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Manijeh Bashar , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Alister G. Burr , Hien Quoc Ngo , Merouane Debbah

The fifth generation (5G) mobile networks are envisioned to support the deluge of data traffic with reduced energy consumption and improved quality of service (QoS) provision. To this end, the key enabling technologies, such as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Dantong Liu , Lifeng Wang , Yue Chen , Maged Elkashlan , Kai-Kit Wong , Robert Schober , Lajos Hanzo

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising technology for next-generation communication systems. This work proposes a novel partially coherent (PC) transmission framework to cope with the challenge of phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Unnikrishnan Kunnath Ganesan , Tung Thanh Vu , Erik G. Larsson

Massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) uses a very large number of low-power transmit antennas to serve much smaller numbers of users. The most widely proposed type of massive MIMO transmit beamforming is zero-forcing, which is based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Long D. Nguyen , Hoang D. Tuan , Trung Q. Duong , H. Vincent Poor

In this work, salient characteristics of a wireless communication system deploying a great number of antennas in the base station (BS), namely Massive MIMO system, are investigated. In particular, we found a simple and meaningful…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-06-17 José Carlos Marinello , Taufik Abrão

This letter shows that the flexible association of possibly multiple base stations (BSs) to each user over multiple frequency bands, along with the joint optimization of BS transmit power that encourages the turning-off of the BSs at…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Kaiming Shen , Ya-Feng Liu , David Yiwei Ding , Wei Yu

This paper introduces an access point-user (AP-UE) association strategy combined with pilot power allocation to mitigate multiuser interference and enhance spectral efficiency (SE) in clustered cell-free massive MIMO (CCF-mMIMO) networks.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 S. Mohammadzadeh , S. Mashdour , R. C. de Lamare , K. Cumanan , C. Li

This paper addresses the cell association problem in the downlink of a multi-tier heterogeneous network (HetNet), where base stations (BSs) have finite number of resource blocks (RBs) available to distribute among their associated users.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Hamidreza Boostanimehr , Vijay K. Bhargava

The use of large-scale antenna arrays can bring substantial improvements in energy and/or spectral efficiency to wireless systems due to the greatly improved spatial resolution and array gain. Recent works in the field of massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-10 Emil Björnson , Jakob Hoydis , Marios Kountouris , Mérouane Debbah

This paper explores the potential of wireless power transfer (WPT) in massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) aided heterogeneous networks (HetNets), where massive MIMO is applied in the macrocells, and users aim to harvest as much…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yongxu Zhu , Lifeng Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Shi Jin , Zhongbin Zheng

The joint user association and spectrum allocation problem is studied for multi-tier heterogeneous networks (HetNets) in both downlink and uplink in the interference-limited regime. Users are associated with base-stations (BSs) based on the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yicheng Lin , Wei Bao , Wei Yu , Ben Liang

We study the problem of cache-aided communication for cellular networks with multi-user and multiple antennas at finite signal-to-noise ratio. Users are assumed to have non-symmetric links, modeled by wideband fading channels. We show that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Itsik Bergel , Soheil Mohajer