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We propose a novel pilot structure for covariance matrix estimation in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems in which each user transmits two pilot sequences, with the second pilot sequence multiplied by a random…
We consider a classical multiple access system with a single transmission channel, finite number of users (users), and randomized transmission protocol (ALOHA). We assume that every user sends messages to the base station with various…
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…
In this paper, the uplink adaptation for massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) networks without the knowledge of user density is considered. Specifically, a novel cooperative uplink transmission and detection scheme is first…
This work investigates a multi-user, multi-antenna uplink wireless system, in which multiple users transmit signals to a base station. Prior research has explored the potential for linear growth in spectral efficiency by employing multiple…
Distributed opportunistic scheduling (DOS) protocols are proposed for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) ad-hoc networks with contention-based medium access. The proposed scheduling protocols distinguish themselves from other existing…
In this paper, we investigate the downlink throughput performance of a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system that employs superimposed pilots for channel estimation. The component of downlink (DL) interference that results…
This paper investigates pilot assignment and access point (AP) selection strategies for uplink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems. We propose channel similarity-aware pilot assignment (CAPA) and AP selection…
Under the conditions where performance in a massive MIMO network is limited by pilot contamination, the reverse link signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) exhibits different distributions when using different pilot allocation schemes. By…
We consider the pilot assignment problem in large-scale distributed multi-input multi-output (MIMO) networks, where a large number of remote radio head (RRH) antennas are randomly distributed in a wide area, and jointly serve a relatively…
Pilot contamination is known to be one of the main impairments for massive MIMO multi-cell communications. Inspired by the concept of fractional frequency reuse and by recent contributions on pilot reutilization among non-adjacent cells, we…
We propose a novel location-aware pilot assignment scheme to mitigate pilot contamination in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks, where the channels are subjected to Rician fading. Our proposed scheme utilizes the…
In this work, we propose three pilot assignment schemes to reduce the effect of pilot contamination in cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Our first algorithm, which is based on the idea of random sequential…
This two-part paper considers an uplink massive device communication scenario in which a large number of devices are connected to a base-station (BS), but user traffic is sporadic so that in any given coherence interval, only a subset of…
This paper considers an uplink cellular system, in which each base station (BS) is equipped with a large number of antennas to serve multiple single-antenna user equipments (UEs) simultaneously. Uplink training with pilot reusing is adopted…
In this paper, we analyze the achievable rate of the uplink of a single-cell multi-user distributed massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system. The multiple users are equipped with single antenna and the base station (BS) is…
This paper considers a multi-way massive multiple-input multiple-output relaying system, where single-antenna users exchange their information-bearing signals with the help of one relay station equipped with unconventionally many antennas.…
In future wireless networks, one fundamental challenge for massive machine-type communications (mMTC) lies in the reliable support of massive connectivity with low latency. Against this background, this paper proposes a compressive sensing…
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…
Pilot reuse in multi-cell massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system is investigated where user groups with different priorities exist. Recent investigation on pilot reuse has revealed that when the ratio of the coherent time interval…