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In cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks, robust resource allocation is critical to ensure reliable system performance in the presence of channel uncertainties resulting from imperfect channel state information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Saeed Mashdour , Saeed Mohammadzadeh , André R. Flores , Shirin Salehi , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Anke Schmeink

Hybrid Massive MIMO reduces implementation complexity but only supports beamforming coefficients that are common across all subbands. However, in macro cellular where the channel has limited degrees of freedom, the long-term component of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-27 Chris Ng , Mihai Banu

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CFmMIMO) coordinates a great number of distributed access points (APs) with central processing units (CPUs), effectively reducing interference and ensuring uniform service quality for user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-23 Phu Lai , Wei Xiang , William Damario Lukito , Khoa Tran Phan , Peng Cheng , Chang Liu , Guoqiang Mao

This letter focuses on integrating rate-splitting multiple-access (RSMA) with time-division-duplex Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) for massive machine-type communications. Due to the large number of devices, their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Anup Mishra , Yijie Mao , Luca Sanguinetti , Bruno Clerckx

The concept of continuous-aperture multiple-input multiple-output (CAP-MIMO) technology has been proposed recently, which aims at achieving high spectrum efficiency by deploying extremely dense antennas or even continuous antennas in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Zhongzhichao Wan , Jieao Zhu , Linglong Dai

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) has emerged as a promising technology for next generation wireless systems, combining the benefits of distributed antenna systems (DAS) and traditional MIMO technology. In this work, we present the first…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Qi Zhen , Pan Tang , Haiyang Miao , Enrui Liu , Ximan Liu , Zihang Ding , Jianhua Zhang

In this paper, we investigate a cell-free massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO)-enabled integration communication, computation, and sensing (ICCS) system, aiming to minimize the maximum computation latency to guarantee the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Qihao Peng , Qu Luo , Zheng Chu , Zihuai Lin , Maged Elkashlan , Pei Xiao , George K. Karagiannidis , Christos Masouros

Massive multi-input multiple-out (MIMO) is a key ingredient in improving the spectral efficiencies for next-generation cellular systems. Thanks to the channel reciprocity, in time-division-duplexing mode, each base station (BS) can acquire…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-30 Deokhwan Han , Namyoon Lee

Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (CFmMIMO) offers uniform service quality through distributed access points (APs), yet unresolved issues remain. This paper proposes a heterogeneous system design that goes beyond the original…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

We present an overview of ongoing research endeavors focused on in-band full-duplex (IBFD) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems and their applications. In response to the unprecedented demands for mobile traffic in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Mohammadali Mohammadi , Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

We study support for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications through a cell-free massive MIMO architecture. Under the general assumption that the propagation channel between the mobile stations, either UAVs or ground users, and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-12 Carmen D'Andrea , Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez , Giovanni Geraci , Lorenzo Galati Giordano , Stefano Buzzi

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is considered as a communication-efficient solution for data aggregation and distributed learning by exploiting the superposition properties of wireless multi-access channels. However, AirComp is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Chen Chen , Emil Björnson , Carlo Fischione

This paper considers cell-free and user-centric approaches for coverage improvement in wireless cellular systems operating at millimeter wave frequencies, and proposes downlink power control algorithms aimed at maximizing the global energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Mario Alonzo , Stefano Buzzi , Alessio Zappone

This article studies a novel distributed precoding design, coined team minimum mean-square error (TMMSE) precoding, which rigorously generalizes classical centralized MMSE precoding to distributed operations based on transmitter-specific…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Lorenzo Miretti , Emil Björnson , David Gesbert

The physical layer foundations of cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) have been well-established. As a next step, researchers are investigating practical and energy-efficient network implementations. This paper focuses on multiple sets of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Lianet Méndez-Monsanto , Nicola Bastianello , Emma Fitzgerald , Gilles Callebaut

In this paper we consider a time-division duplex cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where many distributed access points (APs) simultaneously serve many users. A normalized conjugate beamforming scheme, which…

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

To achieve high performance without substantial overheads associated with channel state information (CSI) of ground users, we consider a fixed-beam precoding approach, where a satellite forms multiple fixed-beams without relying on CSI,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Seyong Kim , Jinseok Choi , Wonjae Shin , Namyoon Lee , Jeonghun Park

In this study we derive novel optimal algorithms for joint power control and beamforming design in modern large-scale MIMO systems, such as those based on the cell-free massive MIMO and XL-MIMO concepts. In particular, motivated by the need…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Lorenzo Miretti , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Sławomir Stańczak

This paper considers a downlink cell-free multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network in which multiple multi-antenna access points (APs) serve multiple users via coherent joint transmission. In order to reduce the energy consumption by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Liangzhi Wang , Chen Chen , Jie Zhang , Carlo Fischione

This paper studies multi-satellite multi-stream (MSMS) beamspace transmission, where multiple satellites cooperate to form a distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system and jointly deliver multiple data streams to multi-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Yafei Wang , Yiming Zhu , Vu Nguyen Ha , Wenjin Wang , Rui Ding , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten