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This paper considers the problem of power control in Massive MIMO systems taking into account the pilot contamination issue and the arrivals and departures of users in the network. Contrary to most of existing work in MIMO systems that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Mohamad Assaad , Salah Eddine Hajri , Thomas Bonald , Anthony Ephremides

Massive MIMO uses a large number of antennas to increase the spectral efficiency (SE) through spatial multiplexing of users, which requires accurate channel state information. It is often assumed that regular pilots (RP), where a fraction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Daniel Verenzuela , Emil Björnson , Xiaojie Wang , Maximilian Arnold , Stephan ten Brink

This paper considers the uplink of a distributed Massive MIMO network where $N$ base stations (BSs), each equipped with $M$ antennas, receive data from $K=2$ users. We study the asymptotic spectral efficiency (as $M\to \infty$) with spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Luca Sanguinetti , Emil Bjornson , Jakob Hoydis

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks, where the base stations (BSs) are equipped with large number of antennas and serve a number of users simultaneously, are very promising, but suffer from pilot contamination. Despite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Anastasios K. Papazafeiropoulos , Hien Quoc Ngo , Tharm Ratnarajah

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) has been a key technology of wireless communications for decades. A typical MIMO system employs antenna arrays with the inter-antenna spacing being half of the signal wavelength, which we term as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xinrui Li , Hongqi Min , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Linglong Dai , Yifei Yuan , Rui Zhang

This paper introduces a hybrid pilot-aided channel estimation technique for mitigating the effect of pilot contamination for the uplink of multi-cell multiuser massive MIMO systems. The proposed hybrid pilot is designed such that it enjoys…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Jiaming Li , Chau Yuen , Dong Li , Han Zhang , Xianda Wu

Aiming for the sixth generation (6G) wireless communications, distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems hold significant potential for spatial multiplexing. In order to evaluate the ability of a distributed massive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-28 Yingjie Xu , Michiel Sandra , Xuesong Cai , Sara Willhammar , Fredrik Tufvesson

\textit{Why does the literature consider the channel-state-information (CSI) as a 2/3-D image? What are the pros-and-cons of this consideration for accuracy-complexity trade-off?} Next generations of wireless communications require…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Makan Zamanipour

This work considers an uplink wireless communication system where multiple users with multiple antennas transmit data frames over dynamic channels. Previous studies have shown that multiple transmit and receive antennas can substantially…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Sajad Daei , Gabor Fodor , Mikael Skoglund

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

This work concerns wireless cellular networks applying massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology. In such a system, the base station in a given cell is equipped with a very large number (hundreds or even thousands) of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Jesper H. Sørensen , Elisabeth de Carvalho

Ever since the invention of Bell Laboratories Layer Space-Time (BLAST) in mid 1990s, the focus of MIMO research and development has been largely on pushing the limit of spectral efficiency. While massive MIMO technologies laid the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-13 Stefan Wesemann , Jinfeng Du , Harish Viswanathan

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

This paper considers a single-cell massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system with dual-polarized antennas at both the base station and users. We study a channel model that includes the key practical aspects that arise when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Özgecan Özdogan , Emil Björnson

Future cellular networks are expected to support new communication paradigms such as machine-type communication (MTC) services along with conventional human-type communication (HTC) services. This requires base stations to serve a large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Kamil Senel , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) has evolved along two tracks: cellular and cell-free, each with unique advantages and limitations. The cellular approach suffers from worse user spectral efficiency at cell edges, whereas the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

Random access is necessary in crowded scenarios due to the limitation of pilot sequences and the intermittent pattern of device activity. Nowadays, most of the related works are based on independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-19 Junyuan Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Fan Wei

Recent developments in Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) technology include packing a large number of antenna elements in a compact array to access the bandwidth benefits provided by higher mutual coupling (MC). The resulting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Sachitha C. Bandara , Peter J. Smith , Erfan Khordad , Robin Evans , Rajitha Senanayake

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

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (massive MIMO) and small cell densification are complementary key 5G enablers. Given a fixed number of the entire base-station antennas per unit area, this paper fairly compares (i) to deploy few base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Mounia Hamidouche , Ejder Baştuğ , Jihong Park , Laura Cottatellucci , Mérouane Debbah