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This paper proposes an approach that leverages multimodal data by integrating visual images with radio frequency (RF) pilots to optimize user association and beamforming in a downlink wireless cellular network under a max-min fairness…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Yinghan Li , Yiming Liu , Wei Yu

This paper considers the uplink pilot overhead in a time division duplexing (TDD) massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) mobile systems. A common scenario of conventional massive MIMO systems is a Base Station (BS) serving all user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Ahmad Abboud , Oussama Habachi , Ali Jaber , Jean-Pierre Cances , Vahid Meghdadi

We consider a single-cell scenario involving a single base station (BS) with a massive array serving multi-antenna terminals in the downlink of a mmWave channel. We present a class of multiuser user MIMO schemes, which rely on uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Zheda Li , Nadisanka Rupasinghe , Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu , Chenwei Wang , Haralabos Papadopoulos , Giuseppe Caire

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) offers significant advantages in mobility scenarios, mainly due to the elimination of cell boundaries and strong macro diversity. In this paper, we examine the downlink performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Ziheng Liu , Jiayi Zhang , Yiyang Zhu , Enyu Shi , Bo Ai

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

In this paper, we investigate the energy efficient power allocation for the downlink in the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems under zero-forcing (ZF) receiver. The radio frequencies (RF) that have a significant effect on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Mahdi Nangir , Abdolrasoul Sakhaei Gharagezlou , Nima Imani

The application of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques to non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems is important to enhance the performance gains of NOMA. In this paper, a novel MIMO-NOMA framework for downlink and uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

For downlink massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) operating in time-division duplex protocol, users can decode the signals effectively by only utilizing the channel statistics as long as channel hardening holds. However, in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Tung T. Vu , Trinh Van Chien , Canh T. Dinh , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

In cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, user equipments (UEs) are served by many distributed access points (APs), where channels are correlated due to finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Junyuan Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Yongjian Wang , Wenjun Zhang , Fan Wei

In this paper, we consider device-to-device (D2D) communication that is underlaid in a multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system and propose a new framework for power control and pilot allocation. In this scheme, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Amin Ghazanfari , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

In an extra-large scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) system, the antenna arrays have a large physical size that goes beyond the dimensions in traditional MIMO systems. Because of this large dimensionality, the optimization of an XL-MIMO system leads to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-04 Abolfazl Amiri , Carles Navarro Manch'on , Elisabeth de Carvalho

Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (massive MIMO) is a variant of multi-user MIMO in which the number of antennas at each Base Station (BS) is very large and typically much larger than the number of users simultaneously served. Massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

In this work, we consider the problem of multiuser scheduling for the downlink of cell-free massive multi-input multi-output networks with clustering. In particular, we develop a multiuser scheduling algorithm based on an enhanced greedy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 S. Mashdour , R. C. de Lamare , J. P. Sales

An exponential increase in the data rate demand prompted several technical innovations. Multi User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) is one of the most promising schemes. This has been evolved into Massive MIMO technology in 5G to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Md. Asif Ishrak Sarder , Fehima Tajrian , Moontasir Rafique , Mariea Anzum , Abdullah Bin Shams

This paper introduces a new mathematical framework, which is used to derive joint uplink/downlink achievable rate regions for multi-user spatial multiplexing between one base station and multiple terminals. The framework consists of two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Patrick Marsch , Peter Rost , Gerhard Fettweis

Massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) uses a very large number of low-power transmit antennas to serve much smaller numbers of users. The most widely proposed type of massive MIMO transmit beamforming is zero-forcing, which is based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Long D. Nguyen , Hoang D. Tuan , Trung Q. Duong , H. Vincent Poor

We consider a scalable user-centric wireless network with dynamic cluster formation as defined by Bj\"ornsson and Sanguinetti. After having shown the importance of dominant channel subspace information for uplink (UL) pilot decontamination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Fabian Göttsch , Noboru Osawa , Takeo Ohseki , Kosuke Yamazaki , Giuseppe Caire

This paper proposes novel pilot optimization and channel estimation algorithm for the downlink multiuser massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system with $K$ decentralized single antenna mobile stations (MSs), and time division…

Applications · Statistics 2014-02-07 Tadilo Endeshaw Bogale , Long Bao Le

The optimization of the pilot overhead in single-user wireless fading channels is investigated, and the dependence of this overhead on various system parameters of interest (e.g., fading rate, signal-to-noise ratio) is quantified. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nihar Jindal , Angel Lozano

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a transmission technique for cellular systems that uses many antennas to support not-as-many users. Thus far, the performance of massive MIMO has only been examined in finite cellular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-13 Tianyang Bai , Robert W. Heath,