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Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is a promising distributed network architecture for 5G-and-beyond systems. It guarantees ubiquitous coverage at high spectral efficiency (SE) by leveraging signal co-processing at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Giovanni Interdonato , Marcus Karlsson , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

The Internet of Bio-nano Things is a significant development for next generation communication technologies. Because conventional wireless communication technologies face challenges in realizing new applications (e.g., in-body area networks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Bon-Hong Koo , Changmin Lee , Ali E. Pusane , Tuna Tugcu , Chan-Byoung Chae

Extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is a promising technology to empower the next-generation communications. However, XL-MIMO, which is still in its early stage of research, has been designed with a variety of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Zhe Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Wei E. I. Sha , Bo Ai , Dusit Niyato , Mérouane Debbah

This letter focuses on the pilot contamination problem in the uplink and downlink of cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output networks with different degrees of cooperation between access points. The optimum minimum mean square…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Alberto Alvarez Polegre , Luca Sanguinetti , Ana Garcia Armada

Distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), also known as cell-free massive MIMO, has emerged as a promising technology for sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. This letter introduces an indoor channel measurement campaign…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Yingjie Xu , Xuesong Cai , Sara Willhammar , Fredrik Tufvesson

We reconsider the problem of joint power control and beamforming design to maximize the weighted sum rate in large and potentially cell-free massive MIMO networks. In contrast to the available short-term methods, where an iterative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Lorenzo Miretti , Emil Björnson , Sławomir Stańczak

The amalgamation of cell-free networks and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has become a prospective technique for future sixth-generation wireless communication systems. In this paper, we focus on the precoding and beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Peng Zhang , Jiayi Zhang , Huahua Xiao , Xiaodan Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

A novel dynamic hybrid beamforming architecture is proposed to achieve the spatial multiplexing-power consumption tradeoff for near-field multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks, where each radio frequency (RF) chain is connected to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zheng Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhaolin Wang , Jian Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek

An IoT (Internet of things) system supports a massive number of IoT devices wirelessly. We show how to use Cell-Free Massive MIMO (multiple-input and multiple-output) to provide a scalable and energy efficient IoT system. We employ optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Hangsong Yan , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

In this work, we consider the uplink of a scalable cell-free massive MIMO system where the users are served only by a subset of access points (APs) in the network. The APs are physically grouped into predetermined "cell-centric clusters",…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Carmen D'Andrea , Erik G. Larsson

Recently, the so-called cell-free Massive MIMO architecture has been introduced, wherein a very large number of distributed access points (APs) simultaneously and jointly serve a much smaller number of mobile stations (MSs). A variant of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Stefano Buzzi , Alessio Zappone

This paper proposes a novel phase shift design for cell-free massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems assisted by reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), which only utilizes channel statistics to achieve the uplink sum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Trinh Van Chien , Cuong V. Le , Huynh Thi Thanh Binh , Hien Quoc Ngo , Symeon Chatzinotas

The combination of cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is envisioned as a promising paradigm to improve network capacity and enhance coverage capability. However, to reap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Xinying Ma , Deyou Zhang , Ming Xiao , Chongwen Huang , Zhi Chen

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are cellular networks where the base stations (BSs) are equipped with unconventionally many antennas. Such large antenna arrays offer huge spatial degrees-of-freedom for transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-20 Emil Björnson , Michail Matthaiou , Mérouane Debbah

Distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) combines the array gain of coherent MIMO processing with the proximity gains of distributed antenna setups. In this paper, we analyze how transceiver hardware impairments affect the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Emil Björnson , Michail Matthaiou , Antonios Pitarokoilis , Erik G. Larsson

Massive MIMO is a compelling wireless access concept that relies on the use of an excess number of base-station antennas, relative to the number of active terminals. This technology is a main component of 5G New Radio (NR) and addresses all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Liesbet Van der Perre , Liang Liu , Erik G. Larsson

Cell-Free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are two promising technologies for application to beyond-5G networks. This paper considers Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Symeon Chatzinotas , Marco Di Renzo , Björn Ottersten

In this paper, we consider the uplink of cell-free massive MIMO systems, where a large number of distributed single antenna access points (APs) serve a much smaller number of users simultaneously via limited backhaul. For the first time, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Qinhui Huang , Alister Burr

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

This paper investigates Cell-Free massive MIMO networks, where each access point (AP) is equipped with a hybrid transceiver, reducing the complexity and cost compared to a fully digital transceiver. Asymptotic approximations for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Carles Diaz-Vilor , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang