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Cell-free massive MIMO is a key 6G technology, offering superior spectral and energy efficiency. However, its dense deployment of low-cost access points (APs) makes hardware impairments unavoidable. While narrowband impairments are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Muhammed Selman Somuncu , Ahmet M. Elbir , Emil Björnson

Cellular communication is a widely used technology in the world where the coverage area is divided into multiple cells. Interference is one of the most important challenges in cellular networks which causes problems by reducing the quality…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Marzieh Arasteh , Narges Yarahmadi Gharaei , Mehrdad Ardebilipour

In cellular networks, the densification of connected devices and base stations engender the ever-growing traffic intensity, and caching popular contents with smart management is a promising way to alleviate such consequences. Our research…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Takehiro Ohashi

This paper studies the large-scale cell-free networks where dense distributed access points (APs) serve many users. As a promising next-generation network architecture, cell-free networks enable ultra-reliable connections and minimal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Zesheng Zhu , Lifeng Wang , Xin Wang , Dongming Wang , Kai-Kit Wong

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating as aerial base stations (BSs) has emerged as a promising solution especially in scenarios requiring rapid deployments (e.g., in the cases of crowded hotspots, sporting events,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Esma Turgut , Mustafa Cenk Gursoy

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) convolutional codes have been shown to exhibit excellent performance under low-complexity belief-propagation decoding [1], [2]. This phenomenon is now termed threshold saturation via spatial coupling. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Santhosh Kumar , Andrew J. Young , Nicolas Macris , Henry D. Pfister

This paper provides an analytical performance characterization of both uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) user-centric network multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where a cooperating BS cluster is formed for each user individually and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Caiyi Zhu , Wei Yu

Cell-Free massive MIMO networks provide huge power gains and resolve inter-cell interference by coherent processing over a massive number of distributed instead of co-located antennas in access points (APs). Cost-efficient hardware is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Yibo Wu , Luca Sanguinetti , Ulf Gustavsson , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Henk Wymeersch

This paper proposes a coverage-oriented femtocell network deployment scheme, in which the femtocell base stations (BSs) can decide whether to be active or inactive depending on their distances from the macrocell BSs. Specifically, as the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-16 He Wang , Xiangyun Zhou , Mark C. Reed

In this paper, we answer a fundamental question: when the total number of antennas per square kilometer is fixed, what is the optimal network deployment? A denser network with a less number of antennas per base station (BS) or the opposite…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Xuefeng Yao , Ming Ding , David Lopez Perez , Zihuai Lin , Guoqiang Mao

In order to cope with the forecasted 1000x increase in wireless capacity demands by 2030, network operators will aggressively densify their network infrastructure to reuse the spectrum as much as possible. However, it is important to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Ming Ding , David Lopez-Perez , Holger Claussen , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

This paper studies downlink energy efficiency (EE) of a cellular massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system with massive number of antennas at both base station (BS) and relay considering cell-edge users which is less investigated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Mohammad Koolivand , Mohammad Hossein Bahonar , Mohammad Sadegh Fazel

This paper considers a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system that consists of a large number of geographically distributed access points (APs) serving multiple users via coherent joint transmission. The downlink…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-15 Mahmoud Zaher , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Marina Petrova

This paper studies a two-layer decoding method that mitigates inter-cell interference in multi-cell Massive MIMO systems. In layer one, each base station (BS) estimates the channels to intra-cell users and uses the estimates for local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Trinh Van Chien , Christopher Mollén , Emil Björnson

In this work, we consider the downlink of a single-cell multi-user MIMO system in which the base station (BS) makes use of $N$ antennas to communicate with $K$ single-antenna user equipments (UEs). The UEs move around in the cell according…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Luca Sanguinetti , Aris L. Moustakas , Emil Bjornson , Merouane Debbah

This paper studies the problem of user association, scheduling and channel allocation in dense cellular networks with energy harvesting base stations (EBSs). In this problem, the EBSs are powered solely by renewable energy and each user has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Zoubeir Mlika , Elmahdi Driouch , Wessam Ajib

Earlier definitions of capacity for wireless networks, e.g., transport or transmission capacity, for which exact theoretical results are known, are well suited for ad hoc networks but are not directly applicable for cellular wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Rahul Vaze , Srikanth Iyer

Wireless traffic attributable to machine learning (ML) inference workloads is increasing with the proliferation of applications and smart wireless devices leveraging ML inference. Owing to limited compute capabilities at these "edge"…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Sarabjot Singh

Fifth-generation cellular networks are expected to exhibit at least three primary physical-layer differences relative to fourth-generation ones: millimeter-wave propagation, antenna-array directionality, and densification of base stations.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Don Torrieri , Salvatore Talarico , Matthew C. Valenti

Simultaneous reuse of spectral resources by uplink and downlink, denoted as in-band full duplex (FD) communication, is promoted to double the spectral efficiency when compared to its half-duplex (HD) counterpart. Interference management,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Itsikiantsoa Randrianantenaina , Hesham Elsawy , Hayssam Dahrouj , Mohamed-Slim Alouini