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Imagine a coverage area where each mobile device is communicating with a preferred set of wireless access points (among many) that are selected based on its needs and cooperate to jointly serve it, instead of creating autonomous cells. This…
This work aims to design a cellular network for maximal energy efficiency (EE). In particular, we consider the uplink with multi-antenna base stations and assume that zero- forcing (ZF) combining is used for data detection with imperfect…
Cell-Free Massive MIMO (CF mMIMO) has emerged as a potential enabler for future networks. It has been shown that these networks are much more energy-efficient than classical cellular systems when they are serving users at peak capacity.…
Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) is expected to provide reliable wireless services for a large number of user equipments (UEs) using access points (APs) distributed across a wide area. When the UEs are battery-powered, uplink energy…
Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising network to offer huge improvement of the achievable rate compared with conventional cellular massive MIMO systems. However, the commonly adopted Shannon-type achievable…
This work proposes a joint power control and access points (APs) scheduling algorithm for uplink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) networks without channel hardening assumption. Extensive studies have done on the…
Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a key technology for next-generation wireless systems. The integration of cell-free massive MIMO within the open radio access network (O-RAN) architecture addresses the growing need…
We consider fronthaul-limited generalized zeroforcing-based cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems with multiple-antenna users and multipleantenna access points (APs) relying on both cooperative beamforming (CB)…
In this study we derive novel optimal algorithms for joint power control and beamforming design in modern large-scale MIMO systems, such as those based on the cell-free massive MIMO and XL-MIMO concepts. In particular, motivated by the need…
Limited-backhaul cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), in which the fog radio access network (F-RAN) is implemented to exchange the information between access points (APs) and the central processing unit (CPU), is…
In this letter, we consider the uplink of a cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network where each user is decoded by a subset of access points (APs). An additional step is introduced in the cell-free Massive MIMO…
A sequential fronthaul network, referred to as radio stripes, is a promising fronthaul topology of cell-free MIMO systems. In this setup, a single cable suffices to connect access points (APs) to a central processor (CP). Thus, radio…
We consider the system-wide utility maximization problem in the downlink of a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system whereby a very large number of access points (APs) simultaneously serve a group of users.…
In this work, we analyze the downlink performance of a cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output system with finite capacity fronthaul links between the centralized baseband units and the access point (APs). Conditioned on the user…
We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system with joint unicast and multi-group multicast transmissions. We derive exact closed-form expressions for the downlink achievable spectral efficiency (SE) of…
The use of low-resolution digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters (DACs and ADCs) significantly benefits energy efficiency (EE) at the cost of high quantization noise in implementing massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)…
We consider a multi-cell multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) coordinated downlink transmission, also known as network MIMO, under per-antenna power constraints. We investigate a simple multiuser zero-forcing (ZF) linear precoding…
CF-mMIMO systems are a promising solution to enhance the performance in 6G wireless networks. Its distributed nature of the architecture makes it highly reliable, provides sufficient coverage and allows higher performance than cellular…
We present a general framework for the characterization of the packet error probability achievable in cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) architectures deployed to support ultra-reliable low-latency (URLLC) traffic. The…
In this paper we propose a power-efficient transfer of information and energy, where we exploit the constructive part of wireless interference as a source of green useful signal power. Rather than suppressing interference as in conventional…