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In this paper we discuss the requirements for a radio access network architecture for ultra-dense networks for "smart city" applications, and show that coordination is required between access points to overcome the effects of interference.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Alister Burr , Manijeh Bashar , Dick Maryopi

Metamaterial antennas are appealing for next-generation wireless networks due to their simplified hardware and much-reduced size, power, and cost. This paper investigates the holographic multiple-input multiple-output (HMIMO)-aided…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Kangda Zhi , Tianyu Yang , Shuangyang Li , Yi Song , Tuo Wu , Giuseppe Caire

Cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is expected to be one of the key technologies in sixth-generation (6G) and beyond wireless communications, offering enhanced spectral efficiency for cell-edge user equipments by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Salih Gümüsbuğa , Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tuğfe Demir

The deployment of large-scale antenna arrays for cellular base stations (BSs), termed as `Massive MIMO', has been a key enabler for meeting the ever-increasing capacity requirement for 5G communication systems and beyond. Despite their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Ang Li , Christos Masouros , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Wei Yu

This work encompasses Rate-Splitting (RS), providing significant benefits in multi-user settings in the context of huge degrees of freedom promised by massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO). However, the requirement of massive MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Bruno Clerckx , Tharm Ratnarajah

Cell-free massive MIMO provides ubiquitous connectivity for multiple users, and implementation using radio stripes is very efficient. Compared with collocated massive MIMO, the major cost includes fronthaul overheads and AP hardware.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Zhifeng Yuan , Yihua Ma , Guanghui Yu

To meet the demands of future wireless networks, antenna arrays must scale from massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) to gigantic MIMO, involving even larger numbers of antennas. To address the hardware and computational cost of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Matteo Nerini , Bruno Clerckx

Cell-Free (CF) Massive MIMO is an alternative topology for future wireless networks, where a large number of single-antenna access points (APs) are distributed over the coverage area. There are no cells but all users are jointly served by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Zheng Chen , Emil Björnson

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CFmMIMO) is a paradigm that can improve users' spectral efficiency (SE) far beyond traditional cellular networks. Increased spatial diversity in CFmMIMO is achieved by spreading the antennas…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-01 Vida Ranjbar , Robbert Beerten , Marc Moonen , Sofie Pollin

In practical mobile communication engineering applications, surfaces of antenna array deployment regions are usually uneven. Therefore, massive multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) communication systems usually transmit wireless signals by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Xiaohu Ge , Ran Zi , Haichao Wang , Jing Zhang , Minho Jo

We present an overview of ongoing research endeavors focused on in-band full-duplex (IBFD) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems and their applications. In response to the unprecedented demands for mobile traffic in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Mohammadali Mohammadi , Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

We propose an uplink massive MIMO system using an array of holographic metasurfaces as a sector antenna. The antenna consists of a set of rectangular waveguide-fed metasurfaces combined along the elevation direction into a planar aperture,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Insang Yoo , David R. Smith

The advent of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology has provided new opportunities for capacity improvement via strategic antenna deployment, especially when the near-field effect is pronounced due to antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Shicong Liu , Xianghao Yu , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) employs a large number of distributed access points (APs) to serve a small number of user equipments (UEs) via the same time/frequency resource. Due to the strong macro diversity gain,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Jiayi Zhang , Jing Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Shi Jin , Bo Ai

As 6G networks evolve, the upper mid-band spectrum (7 GHz to 24 GHz), or frequency range 3 (FR3), is emerging as a promising balance between the coverage offered by sub-6 GHz bands and the high-capacity of millimeter wave (mmWave)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Marouan Mizmizi , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Umberto Spagnolini

Hybrid beamforming for frequency-selective channels is a challenging problem as the phase shifters provide the same phase shift to all of the subcarriers. The existing approaches solely rely on the channel's frequency response and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Sohail Payami , Mathini Sellathurai , Konstantinos Nikitopoulos

Multiple antenna technologies have attracted large research interest for several decades and have gradually made their way into mainstream communication systems. Two main benefits are adaptive beamforming gains and spatial multiplexing,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Michail Matthaiou , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Hong Yang , David J. Love

With the turn of new decade, wireless communications face a major challenge on connecting many more new users and devices, at the same time being energy efficient and minimizing its carbon footprint. However, the current approaches to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-30 Agrim Gupta , Sajjad Nassirpour , Manideep Dunna , Eamon Patamasing , Alireza Vahid , Dinesh Bharadia

We analyze the uplink performance of a distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) architecture in which the remotely located access points (APs) are connected to a central processing unit via a fiber-optical fronthaul…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Anzhong Hu , Lise Aabel , Giuseppe Durisi , Sven Jacobsson , Mikael Coldrey , Christian Fager , Christoph Studer

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication is a promising technology for the fifth-generation (5G) wireless system. However, the large number of antennas used and the wide signal bandwidth in mmWave systems render the conventional multi-antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang