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We investigate the uplink throughput achievable by a multiple-user (MU) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system in which the base station is equipped with a large number of low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Sven Jacobsson , Giuseppe Durisi , Mikael Coldrey , Ulf Gustavsson , Christoph Studer

We consider Internet of Things (IoT) organized on the principles of cell-free massive MIMO. Since the number of things is very large, orthogonal pilots cannot be assigned to all of them even if the things are stationary. This results in an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-19 Shilpa Rao , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

Pilot contamination is known to be one of the main bottlenecks for massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) networks. For moderately large antenna arrays (of importance to recent/emerging deployments) and correlated MIMO, pilot contamination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Nadisanka Rupasinghe , Yavuz Yapici , Jorge Iscar , Ismail Guvenc

In this paper, the feasibility of a new downlink transmission mode in massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems is investigated with two types of users, i.e., the users with only statistical channel state information (CSI) and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Shuang Qiu , Da Chen , Daiming Qu , Kai Luo , Tao Jiang

We consider a downlink multiuser multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) system employing regularized zero-forcing (RZF) precoding. We derive the asymptotic signal-to-leakage-plus-noise ratio (SLNR) as both the number of antennas and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Sungwoo Park , Jeonghun Park , Ali Yazdan Panah , Robert W. Heath

We propose a strategy for orthogonal downlink pilot assignment in cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) that exploits knowledge of the channel state information, the channel hardening degree at each user, and the mobility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Giovanni Interdonato , Pål Frenger , Erik G. Larsson

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

Pilot contamination is a limiting factor in multicell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems because it can severely impair channel estimation. Prior works have suggested coordinating pilot design across cells in order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Kaiming Shen , Hei Victor Cheng , Xihan Chen , Yonina C. Eldar , Wei Yu

Large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) with high spectrum and energy efficiency is a very promising key technology for future 5G wireless communications. For large-scale MIMO systems, accurate channel state information (CSI)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Zhen Gao , Linglong Dai , Zhaocheng Wang

Both space and ground communications have been proven effective solutions under different perspectives in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. This paper investigates multiple-access scenarios, where plenty of IoT users are cooperatively…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Trinh Van Chien , Ha An Le , Ta Hai Tung , Hien Quoc Ngo , Symeon Chatzinotas

This paper considers the uplink performance of a multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) system with mobile users. Mobility brings two major problems to a MIMO-OFDM system:…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-26 Abhinav Anand , Chandra R. Murthy

In this paper, a new multi-cell MMSE detector is proposed for massive MIMO systems. Let $K$ and $B$ denote the number of users in each cell and the number of available pilot sequences in the network, respectively, with $B = \beta K$, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Xueru Li , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson , Shidong Zhou , Jing Wang

The recent development of the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) paradigm, has been extensively based on the pursuit of favorable propagation: in the asymptotic limit, the channel vectors become nearly orthogonal and inter-user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Christos Masouros , Michail Matthaiou

5G sets the foundation for an era of creativity with its faster speeds, increased data throughput, reduced latency, and enhanced IoT connectivity, all enabled by Massive MIMO (M-MIMO) technology. M-MIMO boosts network efficiency and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Muhammad Kamran Saeed , Ashfaq Khokhar

Massive MIMO is seen as a main enabler for low latency communications, thanks to its high spatial degrees of freedom. The channel hardening and favorable propagation properties of Massive MIMO are particularly important for multiplexing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Alexandru-Sabin Bana , Luca Sanguinetti , Elisabeth De Carvalho , Petar Popovski

Recently, the so-called cell-free Massive MIMO architecture has been introduced, wherein a very large number of distributed access points (APs) simultaneously and jointly serve a much smaller number of mobile stations (MSs). A variant of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Stefano Buzzi , Alessio Zappone

Pilot contamination remains a major bottleneck in realizing the full potential of distributed massive MIMO systems. We propose two dynamic and scalable pilot assignment schemes designed for practical deployment in such networks. First, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Mohd Saif Ali Khan , Karthik RM , Samar Agnihotri

In this work, we consider a 1-bit quantized massive MIMO channel with superimposed pilot (SP) scheme, dubbed QSP. With linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) channel estimator and maximum ratio combining (MRC) receiver at the BS, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-25 M. A. Teeti , Rui Wang , Reza Abdolee

This paper considers the uplink of user-centric cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems. We utilize the user-centric dynamic cooperation clustering (DCC) framework and derive the achievable spectral efficiency with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

Understanding the performance of multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems under imperfect channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT) remains a critical challenge in next-generation wireless networks. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Maria Cecilia Fernández Montefiore , Gustavo González , F. Javier López-Martínez , Fernando Gregorio