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We consider a cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system and investigate the system performance for the case when the quantized version of the estimated channel and the quantized received signal are available at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Manijeh Bashar , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Alister G. Burr , Hien Quoc Ngo , Merouane Debbah

We study an uplink scenario of a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system with limited capacity fronthaul links (LC-FHLs) connecting each access point (AP) to the central unit (CU), where user equipments and APs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Hamed Masoumi , Mohammad Javad Emadi

Heterogeneous network (HetNet) is a promising concept for increasing capacity and alleviating spectrum scarcity. In HetNets, however, channel assignment and transmit power control affect the distribution of users among base stations. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Shahla Mohsenifard , Ahmad R. Sharafat , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Physical wireless transceivers suffer from a variety of impairments that distort the transmitted and received signals. Their degrading impact is particularly evident in modern systems with multiuser transmission, high transmit power, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-05 Emil Björnson , Per Zetterberg , Mats Bengtsson

MIMO mobile systems, with a large number of antennas at the base-station side, enable the concurrent transmission of multiple, spatially separated information streams and, therefore, enable improved network throughput and connectivity both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Konstantinos Nikitopoulos , Marcin Filo , Chathura Jayawardena , Rahim Tafazolli

Heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs) with millimeter wave (mm-wave) communications are considered as a promising technology for the fifth generation mobile networks. Mm-wave has the potential to provide multiple gigabit data rate due to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Yali Chen , Bo Ai , Yong Niu , Ruisi He , Zhangdui Zhong , Zhu Han

This paper derives tight performance upper and lower bounds on the downlink outage efficiency of K-tier heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs) for general signal propagation models with Poisson distributed base stations in each tier. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-08 Serkan Ak , Hazer Inaltekin , H. Vincent Poor

The heterogeneity in cellular networks that comprise multiple base stations types imposes new challenges in network planning and deployment of future generation of cellular networks. The Radio Resource Management (RRM) techniques, such as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-16 Aleksandar Ichkov , Vladimir Atanasovski , Liljana Gavrilovska

We derive a novel closed-form lower bound on the ergodic capacity of holographic multiple-input multiple-output (HMIMO) systems enhanced by stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) under Rayleigh fading conditions. The proposed expression is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Ioannis Bartsiokas , Dimitra I. Kaklamani , Iakovos S. Venieris

In this paper, we focus on one of the representative 5G network scenarios, namely multi-tier heterogeneous cellular networks. User association is investigated in order to reduce the down-link co-channel interference. Firstly, in order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Tao Han , Guoqiang Mao , Qiang Li , Lijun Wang , Jing Zhang

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

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

In practical cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks with distributed and low-cost access points, the asynchronous arrival of signals at the user equipments increases multi-user interference that degrades the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Julian Cheng , Victor C. M. Leung , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

As the backbone of the fifth-generation (5G) cellular network, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) encounters a significant challenge in practical applications: how to deploy a large number of antenna elements within limited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Y. Liu , M. Zhang , T. Wang , A. Zhang , M. Debbah

Multiuser multiple-input multiple-output wireless communications systems have the potential to satisfy the performance requirements of fifth-generation and future wireless networks. In this context, cell-free (CF) systems, where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-06 André Flores , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Kumar Vijay Mishra

Physical transceiver implementations for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication systems suffer from transmit-RF (Tx-RF) impairments. In this paper, we study the effect on channel capacity and error-rate performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Christoph Studer , Markus Wenk , Andreas Burg

In Massive MIMO base stations (BSs), the hardware design needs to balance high spectral efficiency (SE) with low complexity. The level of hardware impairments (HWIs) indicates how strong the signal distortion introduced by hardware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Daniel Verenzuela , Emil Björnson , Michail Matthaiou

This paper focuses on edge caching in dense heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets), in which small base stations (SBSs) with limited cache size store the popular contents, and massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) aided macro…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Lifeng Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Sangarapillai Lambotharan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Maged Elkashlan

Integrating the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) into a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system is an effective solution to achieve high system capacity with low cost and power consumption. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Jianxin Dai , Jin Ge , Kangda Zhi , Cunhua Pan , Youguo Wang

In future practical deployments of massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems, the number of radio frequency (RF) chains at the base stations (BSs) may be much smaller than the number of BS antennas to reduce the overall expenditure.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Jun Zhu , Wei Xu , Ning Wang