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Cell-free massive MIMO has matured into a key candidate technology for 6G and beyond, owing to its ability to provide nearly uniform service quality to many user equipments (UEs) over the same time-frequency resources. Unlike conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Salih Gümüşbuğa

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output is a potential candidate for future networks with pervasive connectivity by utilizing coherent joint transmission and distributed antenna arrays. This paper studies the exploitation of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Trinh Van Chien , Bui Trong Duc , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

In this letter, we consider linear precoding for downlink massive multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We propose the novel successively-regularized zero forcing (SRZF) precoding, which exploits successive null…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Aravindh Krishnamoorthy , Robert Schober

In this paper, we investigate the uplink performance of cell-free (CF) extremely large-scale multiple-input-multipleoutput (XL-MIMO) systems, which is a promising technique for future wireless communications. More specifically, we consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Hao Lei , Zhe Wang , Huahua Xiao , Jiayi Zhang , Bo Ai

Cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is a key enabler for the sixth generation (6G) of mobile networks, offering significant spectral and energy efficiency gains through user-centric operation of distributed access points…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

This paper considers the uplink of user-centric cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems. We utilize the user-centric dynamic cooperation clustering (DCC) framework and derive the achievable spectral efficiency with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with multiple antennas on the users and access points (APs). In previous works, the downlink spectral efficiency (SE) has been evaluated using the hardening bound…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Eren Berk Kama , Junbeom Kim , Emil Björnson

To improve the poor performance of distributed operation and non-scalability of centralized operation in traditional cell-free massive MIMO, we propose a cell-free distributed collaborative (CFDC) massive multiple-input multiple-output…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-30 Jiamin Li , Qijun Pan , Pengcheng Zhu , Dongming Wang , Xiaohu You

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF mMIMO) is a promising next generation wireless architecture to realize federated learning (FL). However, sensitive information of user equipments (UEs) may be exposed to the involved access points or the central…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Jiayi Zhang , Jing Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) has recently gained a lot of attention due to its high potential in sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems. The goal of this paper is to first present a unified modeling for massive MIMO,…

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

In this paper, we propose a novel joint caching and massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission scheme, referred to as cache-aided massive MIMO, for advanced downlink cellular communications. In addition to reaping the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-25 Xiao Wei , Lin Xiang , Laura Cottatellucci , Tao Jiang , Robert Schober

In this paper, we investigate a cell-free massive MIMO system with both access points (APs) and user equipments (UEs) equipped with multiple antennas over jointly-correlated Rayleigh fading channels. We study four uplink implementations,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Zhe Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Bo Ai , Chau Yuen , Mérouane Debbah

We propose a cell-edge-aware (CEA) zero forcing (ZF) precoder that exploits the excess spatial degrees of freedom provided by a large number of base station (BS) antennas to suppress inter-cell interference at the most vulnerable user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Howard H. Yang , Giovanni Geraci , Tony Q. S. Quek , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Cell-Free Massive Multiple-input Multiple-output (mMIMO) consists of many access points (APs) in a coverage area that jointly serve the users. These systems can significantly reduce the interference among the users compared to conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Abbas Khalili , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

In this paper, we investigate the impact of channel aging on the performance of cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with pilot contamination. To take into account the channel aging effect due to user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai

The performance of simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in downlink (DL) cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is investigated. Tight approximations to the DL harvested energy and the DL/uplink (UL)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Diluka Loku Galappaththige , Rajan Shrestha , Gayan Amarasuriya Aruma Baduge

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

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is envisioned to offer considerable capacity improvement, but at the cost of high complexity of the hardware. In this paper, we propose a low-complexity hybrid precoding scheme to approach the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Le Liang , Wei Xu , Xiaodai Dong

In this paper, we investigate the impact of channel aging on the performance of cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with both spatial correlation and pilot contamination. We derive novel closed-form uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Jiakang Zheng , 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 2021-12-13 Soumyadeep Datta , Dheeraj Naidu Amudala , Ekant Sharma , Rohit Budhiraja , Shivendra S. Panwar