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The spectral efficiency (SE) of Massive MIMO (MaMIMO) systems is affected by low quality channel estimates. Rate-Splitting (RS) has recently gained some interest in multiuser multiple antenna systems as an effective means to mitigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Bruno Clerckx , Luca Sanguinetti , Dirk Slock

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising technology aiming at achieving high spectral efficiency by deploying a large number of base station (BS) antennas using coherent combining. Channel aging due to user mobility is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Anastasios K. Papazafeiropoulos

Massive multiple-input multiple-output is a very important technology for future fifth-generation systems. However, massive massive multiple input multiple output systems are still limited because of pilot contamination, impacting the data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Qazwan Abdullah , Norsaliza Abdullah , Adeb Salh , Lukman Audah , Nabil Farah , Abbas Ugurenver , Abdu Saif

Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) provides great improvements in spectral efficiency over legacy cellular networks, by coherent combining of the signals over a large antenna array and by spatial multiplexing of many users. Since…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Emil Björnson , Jakob Hoydis , Luca Sanguinetti

Considering a heterogeneous network (HetNet) where both macro base station (BS) and small cell (SC) nodes are equipped with massive antennas, this paper studies the performance for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlinks when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Yongyu Dai , Xiaodai Dong , Hai Lin

This letter focuses on the pilot contamination problem in the uplink and downlink of cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output networks with different degrees of cooperation between access points. The optimum minimum mean square…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Alberto Alvarez Polegre , Luca Sanguinetti , Ana Garcia Armada

This paper investigates the capacity scaling of multicell massive MIMO systems in the presence of spatially correlated fading. In particular, we focus on the strong spatial correlation regimes where the covariance matrix of each user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Junyoung Nam , Giuseppe Caire , Merouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor

We consider the problem of coordinated multi- cell downlink beamforming in massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems consisting of N cells, Nt antennas per base station (BS) and K user terminals (UTs) per cell. Specifically, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Subhash Lakshminarayana , Mohamad Assaad , Merouane Debbah

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) has been considered as a potential technology for Beyond 5G communication systems. However, the performance of CF mMIMO systems has not been well studied. Most existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Baolin Chong , Fengqian Guo , Hancheng Lu , Langtian Qin

We consider the uplink of massive multipleinput multiple-output systems in a multicell environment. Since the base station (BS) estimates the channel state information (CSI) using the pilot signals transmitted from the users, each BS will…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Van-Dinh Nguyen , Oh-Soon Shin

Massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) can support high spectral efficiency (SE) with simple linear transceivers, and is expected to provide high energy efficiency (EE). In this paper, we analyze the EE of downlink multi-cell massive MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Wenjia Liu , Shengqian Han , Chenyang Yang

Understanding the performance of multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems under imperfect channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT) remains a critical challenge in next-generation wireless networks. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Maria Cecilia Fernández Montefiore , Gustavo González , F. Javier López-Martínez , Fernando Gregorio

This paper introduces a novel iterative algorithm for optimizing pilot and data power control (PC) in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems, aiming to enhance system performance under real-time channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Saeed Mohammadzadeh , Mostafa Rahmani , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Alister Burr , Pei Xiao

In this paper, we analyze the performance of the uplink communication of massive multi-cell multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems under the effects of pilot contamination and delayed channels because of terminal mobility. The base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Anastasios K. Papazafeiropoulos , Hien Quoc Ngo , Tharm Ratnarajah

Existing cellular network analyses, and even simulations, typically use the standard path loss model where received power decays like $\|x\|^{-\alpha}$ over a distance $\|x\|$. This standard path loss model is quite idealized, and in most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Xinchen Zhang , Jeffrey G. Andrews

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

Pilot contamination has been regarded as a main limiting factor of time division duplexing (TDD) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (Massive MIMO) systems, as it will make the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) saturated.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Juei-Chin Shen , Jun Zhang , Khaled Ben Letaief

This paper considers the downlink of a single-cell massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system with dual-polarized antennas at both the base station and users. We consider a channel model that takes into account several practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Özgecan Özdogan , Emil Björnson

Next generation wireless networks aim at providing substantial improvements in spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE). Massive MIMO has been proved to be a viable technology to achieve these goals by spatially multiplexing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-09-25 Daniel Verenzuela , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

This paper proposes a stochastic geometry framework to analyze the SINR and rate performance in a large-scale uplink massive MIMO network. Based on the model, expressions are derived for spatial average SINR distributions over user and base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Tianyang Bai , Robert W. Heath