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How would a cellular network designed for maximal energy efficiency look like? To answer this fundamental question, tools from stochastic geometry are used in this paper to model future cellular networks and obtain a new lower bound on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti , Marios Kountouris

We consider a multi-cell massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system with correlated Rayleigh fading channels, where pilot reuse is permitted within each cell (to reduce pilot overhead), and each base station (BS) utilizes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Masoud Elyasi , Azadeh Vosoughi

One of the most important challenges in the fifth generation (5G) of telecommunication systems is the efficiency of energy and spectrum. Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems have been proposed by researchers to resolve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Abdolrasoul Sakhaei Gharagezlou , Nima Imani , Mahdi Nangir

The spectral efficiency (SE) of Massive MIMO (MaMIMO) systems is affected by low quality channel estimates. Rate-Splitting (RS) has recently gained some interest in multiuser multiple antenna systems as an effective means to mitigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Bruno Clerckx , Luca Sanguinetti , Dirk Slock

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

Massive MIMO is a compelling wireless access concept that relies on the use of an excess number of base-station antennas, relative to the number of active terminals. This technology is a main component of 5G New Radio (NR) and addresses all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Liesbet Van der Perre , Liang Liu , Erik G. Larsson

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a key technology for improving the spectral and energy efficiency in 5G-and-beyond wireless networks. For a tractable analysis, most of the previous works on Massive MIMO have been focused on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Merouane Debbah

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

In what ways could cellular massive MIMO be improved? This technology has already been shown to bring huge performance gains. However, coverage holes and difficulties to transmit multiple streams to multi-antenna users because of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Sara Willhammar , Hiroki Iimori , Joao Vieira , Lars Sundström , Fredrik Tufvesson , Erik G. Larsson

In this paper, we consider the multi-user detection problem in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, where the number of receive antennas at the base station (BS) grows infinitely large. We propose a new performance metric, called…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-22 Ruichen Jiang , Ya-Feng Liu

Massive MIMO communication systems have been identified as one of the most prominent technologies of the next generation wireless standards, such as 5G, due to the large gains in energy and spectral efficiency that can be achieved. In the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Jose Carlos Marinello , Taufik Abrao

A massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, which utilizes a large number of antennas at the base station (BS) to serve multiple users, suffers from pilot contamination due to inter-cell interference. A smart pilot assignment…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Xudong Zhu , Zhaocheng Wang , Linglong Dai , Chen Qian

The use of a very large number of antennas at each base station site (referred to as "Massive MIMO") is one of the most promising approaches to cope with the predicted wireless data traffic explosion. In combination with Time Division…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Dilip Bethanabhotla , Ozgun Bursalioglu , Haralabos Papadopoulos , Giuseppe Caire

To improve the cellular energy efficiency, without sacrificing quality-of-service (QoS) at the users, the network topology must be densified to enable higher spatial reuse. We analyze a combination of two densification approaches, namely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Emil Björnson , Marios Kountouris , Mérouane Debbah

We consider a user-centric scalable cell-free massive MIMO network with a total of $LM$ distributed remote radio unit antennas serving $K$ user equipments (UEs). Many works in the current literature assume $LM\gg K$, enabling high UE data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Fabian Göttsch , Noboru Osawa , Takeo Ohseki , Yoshiaki Amano , Issei Kanno , Kosuke Yamazaki , Giuseppe Caire

The capacity of cellular networks can be improved by the unprecedented array gain and spatial multiplexing offered by Massive MIMO. Since its inception, the coherent interference caused by pilot contamination has been believed to create a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Emil Björnson , Jakob Hoydis , Luca Sanguinetti

Cell-Free (CF) Massive multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO) is a distributed antenna system, wherein a large number of back-haul linked access points randomly distributed over a coverage area serve simultaneously a smaller number of users.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Salah Eddine Hajri , Juwendo Denis , Mohamad Assaad

Cell-free massive MIMO systems are currently being considered as potential enablers of future (6G) technologies for wireless communications. By combining distributed processing and massive MIMO, they are expected to deliver improved user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Raphael M. Guedes , José F. de Rezende , Valmir C. Barbosa

The pilot reuse issue in massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) antenna systems with interfering cells is closely examined. This paper considers scenarios where the ratio of the channel coherence time to the number of users in a cell may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Ji Yong Sohn , Sung Whan Yoon , Jaekyun Moon

How would a cellular network designed for high energy efficiency look like? To answer this fundamental question, we model cellular networks using stochastic geometry and optimize the energy efficiency with respect to the density of base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti , Marios Kountouris