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We propose a method for MIMO decoding when channel state information (CSI) is unknown to both the transmitter and receiver. The proposed method requires some structure in the transmitted signal for the decoding to be effective, in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-06 Thomas R. Dean , Mary Wootters , Andrea J. Goldsmith

Massive multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple- output (MIMO) is widely believed to be a core technology for the upcoming fifth-generation (5G) wireless communication standards. The use of low-precision digital-to-analog converters (DACs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Sven Jacobsson , Giuseppe Durisi , Mikael Coldrey , Tom Goldstein , Christoph Studer

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

Pilot contamination has been regarded as the main bottleneck in time division duplexing (TDD) multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The pilot contamination problem cannot be addressed with large-scale antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-10 Xun Zou , Hamid Jafarkhani

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks, where the base stations (BSs) are equipped with large number of antennas and serve a number of users simultaneously, are very promising, but suffer from pilot contamination. Despite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Anastasios K. Papazafeiropoulos , Hien Quoc Ngo , Tharm Ratnarajah

In frequency division duplex (FDD) massive MIMO systems, a major challenge lies in acquiring the downlink channel state information}\ (CSI) at the base station (BS) from limited feedback sent by the user equipment (UE). To tackle this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Rajesh Shrestha , Mingjie Shao , Mingyi Hong , Wing-Kin Ma , Xiao Fu

We present an algorithm that efficiently performs blind decoding of MIMO signals. That is, given no channel state information (CSI) at either the transmitter or receiver, our algorithm takes a block of samples and returns an estimate of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-10 Thomas Dean , Jonathan Perlstein , Mary Wootters , Andrea Goldsmith

Application of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems to frequency division duplex (FDD) is challenging mainly due to the considerable overhead required for downlink training and feedback. Channel extrapolation, i.e.,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Thomas Choi , François Rottenberg , Jorge Gomez-Ponce , Akshay Ramesh , Peng Luo , Jianzhong Zhang , Andreas F. Molisch

In this paper, the feasibility of a new downlink transmission mode in massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems is investigated with two types of users, i.e., the users with only statistical channel state information (CSI) and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Shuang Qiu , Da Chen , Daiming Qu , Kai Luo , Tao Jiang

Massive multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple- output (MIMO) is foreseen to be a key technology in future wireless communication systems. In this paper, we analyze the downlink performance of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Sven Jacobsson , Giuseppe Durisi , Mikael Coldrey , Christoph Studer

This paper studies a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where its access points (APs) and users are equipped with multiple antennas. Two transmission protocols are considered. In the first transmission protocol,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Trang C. Mai , Hien Quoc Ngo , Trung Q. Duong

This paper considers the uplink of user-centric cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems. We utilize the user-centric dynamic cooperation clustering (DCC) framework and derive the achievable spectral efficiency with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

In this paper, we study the design of secure communication for time division duplex multi-cell multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with active eavesdropping. We assume that the eavesdropper actively attacks the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Yongpeng Wu , Chao-Kai Wen , Wen Chen , Shi Jin , Robert Schober , Giuseppe Caire

The channel hardening effect is less pronounced in the cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) system compared to its cellular counterpart, making it necessary to estimate the downlink effective channel gains to ensure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Weiyang Xu , Ruiguang Wang , Yuan Zhang , Hien Quoc Ngo , Wei Xiang

We consider downlink (DL) channel estimation for frequency division duplex based massive MIMO systems under the multipath model. Our goal is to provide fast and accurate channel estimation from a small amount of DL training overhead. Prior…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-23 Cheng Qian , Xiao Fu , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems deploying a large number of antennas at the base station considerably increase the spectrum efficiency by serving multiple users simultaneously without causing severe interference.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Yu Han , Qi Liu , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Kai-Kit Wong

This paper proposes a new transmission strategy for the multiuser massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, including uplink/downlink channel estimation and user scheduling for data transmission. A discrete Fourier transform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Hongxiang Xie , Feifei Gao , Shun Zhang , Shi Jin

In cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output systems, downlink power control is essential to ensure uniformly high service quality across users. Existing methods range from centralized iterative approaches requiring global channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Giovanni Di Gennaro , Amedeo Buonanno , Gianmarco Romano , Francesco Verde , Stefano Buzzi , Francesco A. N. Palmieri

Algorithms for Massive MIMO uplink detection and downlink precoding typically rely on a centralized approach, by which baseband data from all antenna modules are routed to a central node in order to be processed. In the case of Massive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-29 Jesus Rodriguez Sanchez , Fredrik Rusek , Ove Edfors , Muris Sarajlic , Liang Liu

In massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, the large number of antennas would bring a great challenge for the acquisition of the accurate channel state information, especially in the frequency division duplex mode. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-04 Yindi Yang , Shun Zhang , Feifei Gao , Chao Xu , Jianpeng Ma , Octavia A. Dobre