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This paper optimizes the pilot assignment and pilot transmit powers to mitigate pilot contamination in Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems. While prior works have treated pilot assignment as a combinatorial problem, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

This paper proposes a flexible pilot assignment method to jointly optimize the uplink and downlink data transmission in multi-cell Massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems with correlated Rayleigh fading channels. By utilizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Tien Hoa Nguyen , Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Xuan Nam Tran , Emil Björnson

This paper considers the jointly optimal pilot and data power allocation in single-cell uplink massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Using the spectral efficiency (SE) as performance metric and setting a total energy budget…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hei Victor Cheng , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

We consider a multi-cell massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system with correlated Rayleigh fading channels, where pilot reuse is permitted within each cell (to reduce pilot overhead), and each base station (BS) utilizes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Masoud Elyasi , Azadeh Vosoughi

This paper considers the jointly optimal pilot and data power allocation in single cell uplink massive MIMO systems. A closed form solution for the optimal length of the training interval is derived. Using the spectral efficiency (SE) as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hei Victor Cheng , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

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

We investigate the effects of pilot assignment in multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output systems. When deploying a large number of antennas at base station (BS), and linear detection/precoding algorithms, the system performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-09 Jose Carlos Marinello , Cristiano Magalhaes Panazio , Taufik Abrao

This letter shows that optimizing the transmit powers along with optimally designed nonorthogonal pilots can significantly reduce pilot contamination and improve the overall throughput of the uplink multi-cell massive multiple-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Xihan Chen , Kaiming Shen , Hei Victor Cheng , An Liu , Wei Yu , Min-Jian Zhao

Massive MIMO communication systems have been identified as one of the most prominent technologies of the next generation wireless standards, such as 5G, due to the large gains in energy and spectral efficiency that can be achieved. In the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Jose Carlos Marinello , Taufik Abrao

We propose a novel pilot sequence design to mitigate pilot contamination in multi-cell multiuser massive multiple-input multiple-output networks. Our proposed design generates pilot sequences in the multi-cell network and devises power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Noman Akbar , Nan Yang , Parastoo Sadeghi , Rodney A. Kennedy

This paper investigates the joint power allocation and user association problem in multi-cell Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) downlink (DL) systems. The target is to minimize the total transmit power consumption when each user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-08 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Pilot contamination is a limiting factor in multicell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems because it can severely impair channel estimation. Prior works have suggested coordinating pilot design across cells in order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Kaiming Shen , Hei Victor Cheng , Xihan Chen , Yonina C. Eldar , Wei Yu

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

Resource allocation is conceived for cell-free (CF) massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO)-aided ultra-reliable and low latency communication (URLLC) systems. Specifically, to support multiple devices with limited pilot overhead, pilot…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Qihao Peng , Hong Ren , Mianxiong Dong , Maged Elkashlan , Kai-Kit Wong , Lajos Hanzo

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) are expected to significantly enhance the spectrum efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE) of future cellular systems. Since the performance gain of massive MIMO is fundamentally limited by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Yuwei Ren , Yingzhe Li , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Yingmin Wang

This paper introduces a hybrid pilot-aided channel estimation technique for mitigating the effect of pilot contamination for the uplink of multi-cell multiuser massive MIMO systems. The proposed hybrid pilot is designed such that it enjoys…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Jiaming Li , Chau Yuen , Dong Li , Han Zhang , Xianda Wu

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

In this paper, a new state-of-the-art multi-cell MMSE scheme is proposed for massive MIMO networks, which includes an uplink MMSE detector and a downlink MMSE precoder. The main novelty is that it exploits all available pilots for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Xueru Li , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson , Shidong Zhou , Jing Wang

Cell-free massive MIMO systems are currently being considered as potential enablers of future (6G) technologies for wireless communications. By combining distributed processing and massive MIMO, they are expected to deliver improved user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Raphael M. Guedes , José F. de Rezende , Valmir C. Barbosa

In this letter, we introduce a novel pilot design approach that minimizes the total mean square errors of the minimum mean square error estimators of all base stations (BSs) subject to the transmit power constraints of individual users in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Hayder Al-Salihi , Trinh Van Chien , Tuan Anh Le , Mohammad Reza Nakhai
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