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High-speed train (HST) communications with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) techniques have received significant attention in recent years. Besides, cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is considered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Enyu Shi , Jing Jiang , Bo Ai

We consider a cell-free massive MIMO system with multiple antennas on the users and access points. In previous works, the downlink spectral efficiency (SE) has been evaluated using the hardening bound that requires no downlink pilots. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Eren Berk Kama , Junbeom Kim , Emil Björnson

In the cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) system, the centralized transmission scheme is widely adopted to manage the inter-user interference. Unfortunately, its implementation is limited by the extensive signaling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Hongkang Yu , Xinquan Ye , Yijian Chen

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising solution to provide uniform good performance for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications. In this paper, we propose the UAV communication with wireless power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Bo Ai

In-band full-duplex (FD) operation is practically more suited for short-range communications such as WiFi and small-cell networks, due to its current practical limitations on the self-interference cancellation. In addition, cell-free…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Hieu V. Nguyen , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Octavia A. Dobre , Shree Krishna Sharma , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Oh-Soon Shin

In this paper, we propose a novel joint caching and massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission scheme, referred to as \emph{cache-aided massive MIMO}, for multi-cell downlink transmission to multiple cache-enabled receivers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Lin Xiang , Xiao Wei , Laura Cottatellucci , Robert Schober , Tao Jiang

Cell-free Massive MIMO (mMIMO) is envisaged to be a next-generation technology beyond 5G with its high spectral efficiency and superior spatial diversity as compared to that of conventional MIMO technology. The main principle is that many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Zakir Hussain Shaik , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Motivated by the ever-growing demand for \emph{green} wireless communications and the advantages of \emph{cell-free} (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, we focus on the design of their downlink for optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Hien Q. Ngo , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas , John M. Senior

In traditional cellular networks, users at the cell edge often suffer from poor quality of service (QoS) due to large distance-dependent path loss and severe inter-cell interference. While cell-free (CF) massive multi-input multi-out (MIMO)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

In this paper, we investigate the uplink transmit power optimization problem in cell-free (CF) extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems. Instead of applying the traditional methods, we propose two signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Ziheng Liu , Zhilong Liu , Jiayi Zhang , Huahua Xiao , Bo Ai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

We consider a downlink (DL) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, where different users have different mobility profiles. To support this system, we categorize the users into two disjoint groups according to their mobility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Ruoxi Chong , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Simon L. Cotton , Michail Matthaiou

We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with multi-antenna access points and user equipments (UEs) over Weichselberger Rician fading channels with random phase-shifts. More specifically, we investigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Xin Li , Jiayi Zhang , Zhe Wang , Bo Ai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) can support high spectral efficiency (SE) with simple linear transceivers, and is expected to provide high energy efficiency (EE). In this paper, we analyze the EE of downlink multi-cell massive MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Wenjia Liu , Shengqian Han , Chenyang Yang

In this paper, we analyze the benefits of including downlink pilots in a cell-free massive MIMO system. We derive an approximate per-user achievable downlink rate for conjugate beamforming processing, which takes into account both uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Giovanni Interdonato , Hien Quoc Ngo , Erik G. Larsson , Pål Frenger

A sequential fronthaul network, referred to as radio stripes, is a promising fronthaul topology of cell-free MIMO systems. In this setup, a single cable suffices to connect access points (APs) to a central processor (CP). Thus, radio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Sangwon Jo , Hoon Lee , Seok-Hwan Park

We consider a practical cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system with multi-antenna access points (APs) and spatially correlated Rician fading channels. The significant phase-shift of the line-of-sight component…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Zhe Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) deployments are usually investigated with half-duplex nodes and high-capacity fronthaul links. To leverage the possible gains in throughput and energy efficiency (EE) of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-11 Soumyadeep Datta , Ekant Sharma , Dheeraj Naidu Amudala , Rohit Budhiraja , Shivendra S. Panwar

In practical cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks with distributed and low-cost access points, the asynchronous arrival of signals at the user equipments increases multi-user interference that degrades the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Julian Cheng , Victor C. M. Leung , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

This paper studies the coexistence between a downlink multiuser massive multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) communication system and MIMO radar. The performance of the massive MIMO system with maximum ratio ($\MR$), zero-forcing ($\ZF$), and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Mohamed Elfiatoure , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Peter J. Smith , Michail Matthaiou

In this paper, we study the uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) spectral efficiency (SE) of a cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system with Rician fading channels. The phase of the line-of-sight (LoS) path is modeled as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Özgecan Özdogan , Emil Björnson , Jiayi Zhang