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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

The evolution of mobile networks towards user-centric cell-free distributed Massive MIMO configurations requires the development of novel signal processing techniques. More specifically, digital precoding algorithms have to be designed or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 Emiel Vanspranghels , Raquel Marina Noguera Oishi , Franco Minucci , Sofie Pollin

Cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) ensures ubiquitous communication at high spectral efficiency (SE) thanks to increased macro-diversity as compared cellular communications. However, system scalability and performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Giovanni Interdonato , Marcus Karlsson , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Recently, a structure of an optimal linear precoder for multi cell downlink systems has been described in [1, Eq (3.33)]. Other references (e.g., [2,3]) have used simplified versions of the precoder to obtain promising performance gains.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Axel Müller , Romain Couillet , Emil Björnson , Sebastian Wagner , Mérouane Debbah

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems show great potentials in low-mobility scenarios, due to cell boundary disappearance and strong macro diversity. However, the great Doppler frequency offset (DFO) leads to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Zhetao Li , Bo Ai

In the context of cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (mMIMO), zero-forcing precoding (ZFP) requires the exchange of instantaneous channel state information and precoded data symbols via a fronthaul network. It causes considerable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

Linear processing in the spatial domain at the base stations (BSs) and at the users of MIMO cellular systems enables the control of both inter-cell and intra-cell interference. A number of iterative algorithms have been proposed that allow…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-25 Tariq Elkourdi , Osvaldo Simeone , Onur Sahin , Shlomo Shamai

We consider a multi-cell Massive MIMO system in a line-of-sight (LoS) propagation environment, for which each user is served by one base station, with no cooperation among the base stations. Each base station knows the channel between its…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-14 Hong Yang , Hien Quoc Ngo , Erik G. Larsson

Hybrid precoders and combiners are designed for cooperative cell-free multi-user millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) cellular networks for low complexity interference mitigation. Initially, we derive an optimal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Meesam Jafri , Suraj Srivastava , Naveen K. D. Venkategowda , Aditya K. Jagannatham , Lajos Hanzo

Cell-free Massive MIMO (mMIMO) is envisaged to be a next-generation technology beyond 5G with its high spectral efficiency and superior spatial diversity as compared to that of conventional MIMO technology. The main principle is that many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Zakir Hussain Shaik , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Network densification, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands have recently emerged as some of the physical layer enablers for the future generations of wireless communication networks (5G and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-21 Guillem Femenias , Felip Riera-Palou

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

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems have been drawing considerable interest due to the growing throughput demands on wireless networks. In the uplink, massive MIMO systems are commonly studied assuming that each base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Nir Shlezinger , Yonina C. Eldar

By processing in the frequency domain (FD), massive MIMO systems can approach the theoretical per-user capacity using a single carrier modulation (SCM) waveform with a cyclic prefix. Minimum mean squared error (MMSE) detection and zero…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-16 Brent A. Kenney , Arslan J. Majid , Hussein Moradi , Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny

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

Since the seminal paper by Marzetta from 2010, Massive MIMO has changed from being a theoretical concept with an infinite number of antennas to a practical technology. The key concepts are adopted in 5G and base stations (BSs) with $M=64$…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-08 Luca Sanguinetti , Emil Björnson , Jakob Hoydis

This paper concerns the coordinate multi-cell beamforming design for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). In particular, we assume that each base station (BS) has massive antennas. The optimization objective is to maximize a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yannan Chen , Yi Feng , Xiaoyang Li , Licheng Zhao , Kaiming Shen

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-M-MIMO) systems represent an evolution of the classical cellular architecture that has dominated the mobile landscape for decades. In CF-M-MIMO, a central processing unit (CPU) controls a multitude of access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-27 Felip Riera-Palou , Guillem Femenias

MIMO communication may provide high spectral efficiency through the deployment of a very large number of antenna elements at the base stations. The gains from massive MIMO communication come from the use of multi-user MIMO on the uplink and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-16 Kien T. Truong , Robert W. Heath

Long-term beamforming (LTBF) is a widely-used scalable alternative to instantaneous multi-user MIMO processing that leverages slowly varying spatial channel statistics. VLSI implementations require matrix inversion that become…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Amirreza Kiani , Ali Rasteh , Marco Mezzavilla , Sundeep Rangan