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Distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) combines the array gain of coherent MIMO processing with the proximity gains of distributed antenna setups. In this paper, we analyze how transceiver hardware impairments affect the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Emil Björnson , Michail Matthaiou , Antonios Pitarokoilis , Erik G. Larsson

This paper considers the sum spectral efficiency (SE) optimization problem in multi-cell Massive MIMO systems with a varying number of active users. This is formulated as a joint pilot and data power control problem. Since the problem is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Trinh Van Chien , Thuong Nguyen Canh , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

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

We investigate the effects of pilot assignment in multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output systems. When deploying a large number of antennas at base station (BS), and linear detection/precoding algorithms, the system performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-09 Jose Carlos Marinello , Cristiano Magalhaes Panazio , Taufik Abrao

This paper presents a new approach to intra-cell pilot contamination in crowded massive MIMO scenarios. The approach relies on two essential properties of a massive MIMO system, namely near-orthogonality between user channels and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Jesper H. Sørensen , Elisabeth de Carvalho , Petar Popovski

In overloaded Massive MIMO (mMIMO) systems, wherein the number $K$ of user equipments (UEs) exceeds the number of base station antennas $M$, it has recently been shown that non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) can increase the sum spectral…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Mai T. P. Le , Luca Sanguinetti , Emil Björnson , Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto

Massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) has evolved along two tracks: cellular and cell-free, each with unique advantages and limitations. The cellular approach suffers from worse user spectral efficiency at cell edges, whereas the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

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

Massive MIMO, also known as very-large MIMO or large-scale antenna systems, is a new technique that potentially can offer large network capacities in multi-user scenarios. With a massive MIMO system, we consider the case where a base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xiang Gao , Ove Edfors , Fredrik Rusek , Fredrik Tufvesson

Pilot contamination is known to be one of the main impairments for massive MIMO multi-cell communications. Inspired by the concept of fractional frequency reuse and by recent contributions on pilot reutilization among non-adjacent cells, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Italo Atzeni , Jesús Arnau , Mérouane Debbah

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

Connecting aerial and terrestrial users with a single base station (BS) is increasingly challenging due to the rising number of aerial users like unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Traditional BSs, designed with down-tilted beams, focus…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-10 Achiel Colpaert , Zhuangzhuang Cui , Sofie Pollin

Cell-free Massive MIMO is considered as a promising technology for satisfying the increasing number of users and high rate expectations in beyond-5G networks. The key idea is to let many distributed access points (APs) communicate with all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

Antennas of transmitters and receivers have been manipulated to increase the capacity of transmission and reception of signals. Using many elements in antennas to shape beams and direct nulls in a particular point for optimum signal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Mboli Sechang Julius

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a fundamental enabler to provide high data throughput in next generation cellular networks. By equipping the base stations (BSs) with tens or hundreds of antenna elements, narrow and high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Paolo Baracca , Andreas Weber , Thorsten Wild , Christophe Grangeat

In this paper, we analyze the achievable rate of the uplink of a single-cell multi-user distributed massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system. The multiple users are equipped with single antenna and the base station (BS) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ang Yang , Yindi Jing , Chengwen Xing , Zesong Fei , Jingming Kuang

Ultra network densification and Massive MIMO are considered major 5G enablers since they promise huge capacity gains by exploiting proximity, spectral and spatial reuse benefits. Both approaches rely on increasing the number of access…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Antonis G. Gotsis , Stelios Stefanatos , Angeliki Alexiou

This paper considers a single-cell massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system with dual-polarized antennas at both the base station and users. We study a channel model that includes the key practical aspects that arise when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Özgecan Özdogan , Emil Björnson

The simultaneous transmission of numerous users presents substantial challenges due to the inherent trade-off between channel estimation and information transmission in multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Shuxiao Ye , Xianchao Zhang , Neng Ye

A Cell-Free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system comprises a very large number of distributed access points (APs)which simultaneously serve a much smaller number of users over the same time/frequency resources based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Hien Quoc Ngo , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang , Erik G. Larsson , Thomas L. Marzetta