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Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are cellular networks where the base stations (BSs) are equipped with unconventionally many antennas, deployed on co-located or distributed arrays. Huge spatial degrees-of-freedom are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-30 Emil Björnson , Michail Matthaiou , Mérouane Debbah

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-M-MIMO) systems represent an evolution of the classical cellular architecture that has dominated the mobile landscape for decades. In CF-M-MIMO, a central processing unit (CPU) controls a multitude of access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-27 Felip Riera-Palou , Guillem Femenias

Cell-Free Massive MIMO is a highly promising approach to enhance network capacity by moving a large number of distributed access points (AP) closer to mobile users while utilizing simple matched filtering and conjugate beamforming. Recent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Indu L. Shakya , Falah H. Ali

This paper develops a multi-user downlink communication framework for distributed low Earth orbit satellite networks serving ground users equipped with multiple antennas. Building upon the concept of cell-free multiple-input multiple-output…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Parisa Ramezani , Emil Björnson

In this work, we investigate the sum-rate performance of multicell and cell-free massive MIMO systems using linear precoding and multiuser scheduling algorithms. We consider the use of a network-centric clustering approach to reduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-14 S. Mashdour , R. C. de Lamare , J. P. Sales

We consider the system-wide utility maximization problem in the downlink of a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system whereby a very large number of access points (APs) simultaneously serve a group of users.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Muhammad Farooq , Hien Quoc Ngo , Een-Kee Hong , Le-Nam Tran

Ultra-dense cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-MMIMO) has emerged as a promising technology expected to meet the future ubiquitous connectivity requirements and ever-growing data traffic demands in 6G. This article…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Hien Quoc Ngo , Giovanni Interdonato , Erik G. Larsson , Giuseppe Caire , Jeffrey G. Andrews

We derive a fast and optimal algorithm for solving practical weighted max-min SINR problems in cell-free massive MIMO networks. For the first time, the optimization problem jointly covers long-term power control and distributed beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Lorenzo Miretti , Renato Luis Garrido Cavalcante , Slawomir Stanczak

In this work, we propose a clustering technique based on information rates for cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks. Unlike existing clustering approaches that rely on the large scale fading coefficients of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-30 S. Mashdour , R. C. de Lamare

Cell-free massive MIMO systems have promising data rate and uniform coverage gains. These systems, however, typically rely on optical fiber based fronthaul for the communication between the central processing unit (CPU) and the distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Umut Demirhan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Since the seminal paper by Marzetta from 2010, Massive MIMO has changed from being a theoretical concept with an infinite number of antennas to a practical technology. The key concepts are adopted in 5G and base stations (BSs) with $M=64$…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-08 Luca Sanguinetti , Emil Björnson , Jakob Hoydis

In a cell-free massive MIMO architecture a very large number of distributed access points simultaneously and jointly serves a much smaller number of mobile stations; a variant of the cell-free technique is the user-centric approach, wherein…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-28 Mario Alonzo , Stefano Buzzi , Alessio Zappone , Ciro D'Elia

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

The capacity of cellular networks can be improved by the unprecedented array gain and spatial multiplexing offered by Massive MIMO. Since its inception, the coherent interference caused by pilot contamination has been believed to create a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Emil Björnson , Jakob Hoydis , Luca Sanguinetti

The issue of diminished spectral efficiency (SE) of the downlink (DL) transmission in distributed cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems poses a significant challenge in terms of user equipment (UE) performance when compared to their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Reza Roshanghias , Reza Saadat

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

Distributed or Cell-free (CF) massive Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (mMIMO), has been recently proposed as an answer to the limitations of the current network-centric systems in providing high-rate ubiquitous transmission. The capability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Salman Mohebi , Andrea Zanella , Michele Zorzi

Cell-free wireless communication is envisioned as one of the most promising network architectures, which can achieve stable and uniform communication performance while improving the system energy and spectrum efficiency. The deployment of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Zhuoyin Dai , Jingran Xu , Xiaoli Xu , Ruoguang Li , Yong Zeng

Cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is considered, where distributed access points (APs) multiply the received signal by the conjugate of the estimated channel, and send back a quantized version of this weighted signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Manijeh Bashar , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Alister G. Burr , Hien Quoc Ngo , Merouane Debbah , Pei Xiao

We consider fronthaul-limited generalized zeroforcing-based cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems with multiple-antenna users and multipleantenna access points (APs) relying on both cooperative beamforming (CB)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zahra Mobini , Ahmet Hasim Gokceoglu , Li Wang , Gunnar Peters , Hien Quoc Ngo