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Wireless communications is one of the most successful technologies in modern years, given that an exponential growth rate in wireless traffic has been sustained for over a century (known as Cooper's law). This trend will certainly continue…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-14 Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson , Thomas L. Marzetta

This paper studies the security aspect of a recently introduced network ("cell-free massive MIMO") under a pilot spoofing attack. Firstly, a simple method to recognize the presence of this type of an active eavesdropping attack to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Tiep M. Hoang , Hien Quoc Ngo , Trung Q. Duong , Hoang D. Tuan , Alan Marshall

In this paper, a new state-of-the-art multi-cell MMSE scheme is proposed for massive MIMO networks, which includes an uplink MMSE detector and a downlink MMSE precoder. The main novelty is that it exploits all available pilots for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Xueru Li , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson , Shidong Zhou , Jing Wang

This paper considers a deterministic physical model of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with uniform linear antenna arrays. It is known that the maximum spatial degrees of freedom is achieved by spacing antenna elements…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Keigo Takeuchi

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

Ubiquitous cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) combines massive MIMO technology and user-centric transmission in a distributed architecture. All the access points (APs) in the network cooperate to jointly and coherently…

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

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is recognized as a promising technology for the next generation of wireless networks because of its potential to increase the spectral efficiency. In initial studies of massive MIMO, the system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Elahe Sadeghabadi , Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Behrooz Makki , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari

In practical mobile communication engineering applications, surfaces of antenna array deployment regions are usually uneven. Therefore, massive multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) communication systems usually transmit wireless signals by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Xiaohu Ge , Ran Zi , Haichao Wang , Jing Zhang , Minho Jo

In this paper, we study a massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) relay network where multiple source-destination pairs exchange information through a common relay equipped with a massive antenna array. The source users perform…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Samira Rahimian , Yindi Jing , Masoud Ardakani

This paper considers sparse device activity detection for cellular machine-type communications with non-orthogonal signatures using the approximate message passing algorithm. This paper compares two network architectures, massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Zhilin Chen , Foad Sohrabi , Wei Yu

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 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

Cell-free massive MIMO is a variant of multiuser MIMO and massive MIMO, in which the total number of antennas $LM$ is distributed among the $L$ remote radio units (RUs) in the system, enabling macrodiversity and joint processing. Due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Fabian Göttsch , Noboru Osawa , Takeo Ohseki , Kosuke Yamazaki , Giuseppe Caire

In this paper, we propose an active attacking strategy on a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network, where the pilot sequences are obtained using the user load-achieving pilot sequence design. The user load-achieving design…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Noman Akbar , Shihao Yan

Massive multiple input multiple output (M-MIMO) technology plays a pivotal role in fifth-generation (5G) and beyond communication systems, offering a wide range of benefits, from increased spectral efficiency (SE) to enhanced energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Muhammad Kamran Saeed , Ashfaq Khokhar , Shakil Ahmed

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

In this article, we investigate the real-world capability of the multi-link operation (MLO) framework -- one of the key MAC-layer features included in the IEEE 802.11be amendment -- by using a large dataset containing 5 GHz spectrum…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Marc Carrascosa , Giovanni Geraci , Edward Knightly , Boris Bellalta

This paper investigates the spectral efficiency (SE) of multi-cell Massive Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) using different channel models. Prior works have derived closed-form SE bounds and approximations for Gaussian distributed channels,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Random access is necessary in crowded scenarios due to the limitation of pilot sequences and the intermittent pattern of device activity. Nowadays, most of the related works are based on independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-19 Junyuan Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Fan Wei

This paper studies the sum throughput of the {multi-user} multiple-input-single-output (MISO) networks in the cases with large but finite number of transmit antennas and users. Considering continuous and bursty communication scenarios with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Behrooz Makki , Tommy Svensson , Mohamed-Slim Alouini