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Antennas of transmitters and receivers have been manipulated to increase the capacity of transmission and reception of signals. Using many elements in antennas to shape beams and direct nulls in a particular point for optimum signal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Mboli Sechang Julius

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is expected to be a vital component in future 5G systems. As such, there is a need for new modeling in order to investigate the performance of massive MIMO not only at the physical layer, but…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-13 Emma Fitzgerald , Michał Pióro , Fredrik Tufvesson

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) are considered as the prospective multiple antenna technologies for beyond the fifth-generation (5G) networks. Cell-free MIMO systems powered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Taegyun Noh , Junil Choi

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

Multiple access technology played an important role in wireless communication in the last decades: it increases the capacity of the channel and allows different users to access the system simultaneously. However, the conventional multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Yongpeng Wu , Xiqi Gao , Shidong Zhou , Wei Yang , Yury Polyanskiy , Giuseppe Caire

Cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is expected to be one of the key technologies in sixth-generation (6G) and beyond wireless communications, offering enhanced spectral efficiency for cell-edge user equipments by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Salih Gümüsbuğa , Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tuğfe Demir

Nowadays, the demand for wireless mobile services is copious, and will continue increasing in the near future. Mobile cellular operators are therefore looking at the unlicensed spectrum as an economical supplement to augment the capacity of…

Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (mMIMO) is one of the essential technologies introduced by the Fifth Generation (5G) of wireless communication systems. However, although mMIMO provides many benefits for wireless communications, it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Eduardo Noboro Tominaga , Onel Luiz Alcaraz López , Hirley Alves , Richard Demo Souza , Leonardo Terças

This paper proposes the utilization of cell-free massive MIMO (CF-M-MIMO) processing on top of the regular micro/macrocellular deployments typically found in current 5G networks. Towards this end, it contemplates the connection of all base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-13 F. Riera-Palou , G. Femenias , D. López-Pérez , N. Piovesan , A. De Domenico

The use of a very large number of antennas at each base station site (referred to as "Massive MIMO") is one of the most promising approaches to cope with the predicted wireless data traffic explosion. In combination with Time Division…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Dilip Bethanabhotla , Ozgun Bursalioglu , Haralabos Papadopoulos , Giuseppe Caire

Cell-Free (CF) Massive multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO) is a distributed antenna system, wherein a large number of back-haul linked access points randomly distributed over a coverage area serve simultaneously a smaller number of users.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Salah Eddine Hajri , Juwendo Denis , Mohamad Assaad

Two key traits of 5G cellular networks are much higher base station (BS) densities - especially in the case of low-power BSs - and the use of massive MIMO at these BSs. This paper explores how massive MIMO can be used to jointly maximize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Qiaoyang Ye , Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu , Haralabos C. Papadopoulos , Constantine Caramanis , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Current cellular systems achieve high spectral efficiency through Massive MIMO, which leverages an abundance of antennas to create favorable propagation conditions for multiuser spatial multiplexing. Looking towards future networks, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Emil Björnson , Amna Irshad , Özlem Tugfe Demir , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Alva Kosasih , Vitaly Petrov

We consider the downlink of Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems, where a very large number of distributed access points (APs) simultaneously serve a much smaller number of users. Each AP uses local channel estimates obtained from received uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Hien Quoc Ngo , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang , Erik G. Larsson , Thomas L. Marzetta

The evolving fifth generation (5G) cellular wireless networks are envisioned to overcome the fundamental challenges of existing cellular networks, e.g., higher data rates, excellent end-to-end performance and user-coverage in hot-spots and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 E. Hossain , M. Rasti , H. Tabassum , A. Abdelnasser

We consider cellular base stations (BSs) equipped with a large number of antennas and operating in the unlicensed band. We denote such system as massive MIMO unlicensed (mMIMO-U). We design the key procedures required to guarantee…

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Emil Björnson , Jakob Hoydis , Luca Sanguinetti

We present a unified model for connected antenna arrays with a large number of tightly integrated (i.e., coupled) antennas in a compact space within the context of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication. We refer to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Mohamed Akrout , Volodymyr Shyianov , Faouzi Bellili , Amine Mezghani , Robert W. Heath

Existing works on Cell-Free Massive MIMO primarily focus on optimising system throughput and energy efficiency under high-traffic scenarios with only a limited focus on variable user demand as required by higher network layers.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Robbert Beerten , Vida Ranjbar , Hazem Sallouha , Sofie Pollin

Cell-free wireless communication is envisioned as one of the most promising network architectures, which can achieve stable and uniform communication performance while improving the system energy and spectrum efficiency. The deployment of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Zhuoyin Dai , Jingran Xu , Xiaoli Xu , Ruoguang Li , Yong Zeng