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Under limited feedback, channel state information (CSI) reconstruction for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) precoding is challenging, since the precoder should provide not only beamforming gain, but also robust suppression…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Juseong Park , Taekyun Lee , Foad Sohrabi , Jeffrey G. Andrews

In cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks, robust resource allocation is critical to ensure reliable system performance in the presence of channel uncertainties resulting from imperfect channel state information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Saeed Mashdour , Saeed Mohammadzadeh , André R. Flores , Shirin Salehi , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Anke Schmeink

A cellular multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink system is studied in which each base station (BS) transmits to some of the users, so that each user receives its intended signal from a subset of the BSs. This scenario is referred…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-12 Saeed Kaviani , Osvaldo Simeone , Witold A Krzymień , Shlomo Shamai

This paper introduces a robust resource allocation framework for the downlink of cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (CF-mMIMO) networks to address the effects caused by imperfect channel state information (CSI). In particular, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-11 S. Mashdour , A. R. Flores , S. Salehi , R. C. de Lamare , Anke Schmeink

The throughput of multicell systems is inherently limited by interference and the available communication resources. Coordinated resource allocation is the key to efficient performance, but the demand on backhaul signaling and computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-12 Emil Björnson , Niklas Jaldén , Mats Bengtsson , Björn Ottersten

In a recent work, we studied a novel precoding design for cell-free networks called team minimum mean-square error (TMMSE) precoding, which rigorously generalizes centralized MMSE precoding to distributed operations based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Lorenzo Miretti , Emil Björnson , David Gesbert

In this paper, we study feedback optimization problems that maximize the users' signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) in a two-cell MIMO broadcast channel. Assuming the users learn their direct and interfering channels perfectly,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Rusdha Muharar , Randa Zakhour , Jamie Evans

In this work, we consider the joint precoding across K transmitters (TXs), sharing the knowledge of the user's data symbols to be transmitted towards K single-antenna receivers (RXs). We consider a distributed channel state information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-01 Paul de Kerret , David Gesbert

Multi-cell cooperation (MCC) is an approach for mitigating inter-cell interference in dense cellular networks. Existing studies on MCC performance typically rely on either over-simplified Wyner-type models or complex system-level…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-07 Kaibin Huang , Jeffrey G. Andrews

This paper considers a multi-cell AirComp network and investigates the optimal power control policies over multiple cells to regulate the effect of inter-cell interference. First, we consider the scenario of centralized multi-cell power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Xiaowen Cao , Guangxu Zhu , Jie Xu , Kaibin Huang

This paper proposes a framework for designing robust precoders for a multi-input single-output (MISO) system that performs integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) across multiple cells and users. We use Cramer-Rao-Bound (CRB) to measure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Nithin Babu , Christos Masouros , Constantinos B. Papadias , Yonina C. Eldar

We investigate coordinated regularized zero-forcing precoding for limited feedback multicell multiuser multiple-input single-output systems. We begin by deriving an approximation to the expected signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jawad Mirza , Peter J. Smith , Pawel A. Dmochowski , Mansoor Shafi

We consider the design of linear precoders and receivers in a Multiple-Input Single-Output (MISO) Broadcast Channel (BC). We aim at minimizing the transmit power while fullfiling a set of per-user Quality-of-Service (QoS) constraints…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-04 José P. González-Coma , Michael Joham , Paula M. Castro , Luis Castedo

Channel state information (CSI) feedback is a challenging issue in frequency division multiplexing (FDD) massive MIMO systems. This paper studies a cooperative feedback scheme, where the users first exchange their CSI with each other by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Junting Chen , Haifan Yin , Laura Cottatellucci , David Gesbert

This paper considers the cooperation between a cognitive system and a primary system where multiple cognitive base stations (CBSs) relay the primary user's (PU) signals in exchange for more opportunity to transmit their own signals. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Gan Zheng , S. H. Song , Kai-Kit Wong , Bjorn Ottersten

In this manuscript we tackle the problem of semi-distributed user selection with distributed linear precoding for sum rate maximization in multiuser multicell systems. A set of adjacent base stations (BS) form a cluster in order to perform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Eduardo Castañeda , Adão Silva , Ramiro Samano-Robles , Atilio Gameiro

This paper considers multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay communication in multi-cellular (interference) systems in which MIMO source-destination pairs communicate simultaneously. It is assumed that due to severe attenuation and/or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Muhammad R A Khandaker , Kai-Kit Wong

This paper investigates the design of distributed precoding for multi-satellite massive MIMO transmissions. We first conduct a detailed analysis of the transceiver model, in which delay and Doppler precompensation is introduced to ensure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Yafei Wang , Vu Nguyen Ha , Konstantinos Ntontin , Hong Yan , Wenjin Wang , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

In this paper, we investigate the distributed power allocation for multi-cell OFDMA networks taking both energy efficiency and inter-cell interference (ICI) mitigation into account. A performance metric termed as throughput contribution is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Zesong Fei , Chengwen Xing , Na Li , Jingming Kuang

In this paper, we consider a joint unicast and multi-group multicast cell-free distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, while accounting for co-pilot assignment strategy based channel estimation, pilot contamination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Jiamin Li , Qijun Pan , Zhenggang Wu , Pengcheng Zhu , Dongming Wang , Xiaohu You