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Millimeter Wave (mmWave) band provides a large spectrum to meet the high-demand capacity by the 5th generation (5G) wireless networks. However, to fully exploit the available spectrum, obstacles such as high path loss, channel sparsity, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Mojtaba Ahmadi Almasi , Roohollah Amiri , Hani Mehrpouyan

This paper analyzes the spectral efficiency of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems in both centralized and distributed configurations, referred to as C-MIMO and D-MIMO, respectively. By accounting for real environmental…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Gervais N. Kamga , Minghua Xia , Sonia Aïssa

We consider the cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink, where a very large number of distributed multiple-antenna access points (APs) serve many single-antenna users in the same time-frequency resource. A simple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Hien Quoc Ngo , Le-Nam Tran , Trung Q. Duong , Michail Matthaiou , Erik G. Larsson

Large-scale distributed Multiuser MIMO (MU-MIMO) is a promising wireless network architecture that combines the advantages of "massive MIMO" and "small cells." It consists of several Access Points (APs) connected to a central server via a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-04-02 Ryan Rogalin , Ozgun Bursalioglu , Haralabos Papadopoulos , Giuseppe Caire , Andreas Molisch , Antonios Michaloliakos , Vlad Balan , Konstantinos Psounis

Traditional cellular networks struggle with poor quality of service (QoS) for cell-edge users, while cell-free (CF) systems offer uniform QoS but incur high roll-out costs due to acquiring numerous access point (AP) sites and deploying a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

Multi-user multiple-input, multiple-output (MU-MIMO) designs can substantially increase wireless systems' achievable throughput and connectivity capabilities. However, existing MU-MIMO deployments typically utilize linear processing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Chathura Jayawardena , Marcin Filo , George N. Katsaros , Konstantinos Nikitopoulos

In conventional multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), static array configurations struggle in dynamic environments, and further antenna scaling is bounded by cost, energy, and footprint. Emerging approaches, which can enable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhe Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Bokai Xu , Wenhui Yi , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai

In multiuser MIMO (MU-MIMO) LANs, the achievable throughput of a client depends on who are transmitting concurrently with it. Existing MU-MIMO MAC protocols however enable clients to use the traditional 802.11 contention to contend for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Tung-Wei Kuo , Kuang-Che Lee , Kate Ching-Ju Lin , Ming-Jer Tsai

Under the ideal assumption of uniform propagation, cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) provides uniformly high throughput over the network by effectively surrounding each user with its serving access point (AP) set. However, in realistic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-09 Yunlu Xiao , Marina Petrova , Ljiljana Simić

In 6G, the trend of transitioning from massive antenna elements to even more massive ones is continued. However, installing additional antennas in the limited space of user equipment (UE) is challenging, resulting in limited capacity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Lung-Sheng Tsai , Shang-Ling Shih , Pei-Kai Liao , Chao-Kai Wen

Terahertz (THz) frequencies have recently garnered considerable attention due to their potential to offer abundant spectral resources for communication, as well as distinct advantages in sensing, positioning, and imaging. Nevertheless,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

Future autonomous transportation systems necessitate network infrastructure capable of accommodating massive vehicular connectivity, despite the scarce availability of frequency resources. Current approaches for achieving such required high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 George N. Katsaros , Konstantinos Nikitopoulos

We consider the downlink of a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network where numerous distributed access points (APs) serve a smaller number of users under time division duplex operation. An important issue in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-12 L. D. Nguyen , T. Q. Duong , H. Q. Ngo , K. Tourki

The use of large-scale antenna arrays has the potential to bring substantial improvements in energy efficiency and/or spectral efficiency to future wireless systems, due to the greatly improved spatial beamforming resolution. Recent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Emil Björnson , Jakob Hoydis , Marios Kountouris , Mérouane Debbah

One of the key features of next generation wireless communication systems will be the use of frequencies in the range 10-100GHz (aka mmWave band) in densely populated indoor and outdoor scenarios. Due to the reduced wavelength, antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea

This paper presents a new view of multi-user (MU) hybrid massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems from array signal processing perspective. We first show that the instantaneous channel vectors corresponding to different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Hai Lin , Feifei Gao , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

In order to ensure the fastest wireless energy transfer from a source to the user one needs to maximize the channel capacity for power transport. In communications technologies, the concept of MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) exploits…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Constantinos A. Valagiannopoulos , Sergei A. Tretyakov

Distributed massive MIMO (D-MIMO) is a promising technology for future generation wireless systems as it takes advantage of both an increased array aperture and a decentralized processing architecture and topology. In order to truly…

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) implemented in virtualized cloud radio access networks (V-CRAN) has emerged as a promising architecture to enhance spectral efficiency (SE), network flexibility, and energy efficiency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Derya Nurcan-Atceken , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Aysegul Altin-Kayhan , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar , Bulent Tavli

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Carmen D'Andrea , Erik G. Larsson