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We consider large-scale fading precoding (LSFP), which is a two-layer precoding scheme in the downlink of multi-cell massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems to suppress inter-cell interference. We obtain the closed-form…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

In this paper, we propose network massive multiple- input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where three radio units (RUs) connected via one digital unit (DU) support multiple user equipments (UEs) at a cell-boundary through the same radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-20 Changwoo Lee , Chan-Byoung Chae , Taehyung Kim , Sooyong Choi , Juho Lee

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 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

Extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is a promising technology for the future sixth-generation (6G) networks to achieve higher performance. In practice, various linear precoding schemes, such as zero-forcing (ZF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Bokai Xu , Zhe Wang , Huahua Xiao , Jiayi Zhang , Bo Ai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

In a cooperative multiple-antenna downlink cellular network, maximization of a concave function of user rates is considered. A new linear precoding technique called soft interference nulling (SIN) is proposed, which performs at least as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-10 Chris T. K. Ng , Howard Huang

In cell-free massive MIMO, centralized precoding is {theoretically known} to {remarkably} outperform its distributed counterparts, albeit {with} high implementation complexity. However, this letter highlights a practical limitation {often…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, leveraging tight cooperation among wireless access points, exhibit remarkable signal enhancement and interference suppression capabilities, demonstrating significant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Peng Jiang , Jiafei Fu , Pengcheng Zhu , Yan Wang , Jiangzhou Wang , Xiaohu You

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) systems serve the user equipments (UEs) by geographically distributed access points (APs) by means of joint transmission and reception. To limit the power consumption due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Shuaifei Chen , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Bo Ai

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) is a promising technique for achieving high spectral efficiency (SE) using multiple distributed access points (APs). However, harsh propagation environments often lead to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Yiyang Zhu , Enyu Shi , Ziheng Liu , Jiayi Zhang , Bo Ai

In this paper, we provide a theoretical framework for the study of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-enabled full-duplex (FD) cellular networks in which the self-interference (SI) channels follow the Rician distribution and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Arman Shojaeifard , Kai-Kit Wong , Marco Di Renzo , Gan Zheng , Khairi Ashour Hamdi , Jie Tang

In multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems, the non-linear behavior of the power amplifiers (PAs) may cause degradation of the linear precoding schemes dealing with interference between user equipments (UEs), e.g., the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Juan Vidal Alegría , Ashkan Sheikhi , Ove Edfors

As an effective way to enhance the physical layer security (PLS) for the broadcast channel (BC), regularized zero-forcing (RZF) precoding has attracted much attention. However, the reliability performance, i.e., secrecy outage probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Xin Zhang , Shenghui Song , Yonina C. Eldar

In this paper, we study the sum rate performance of zero-forcing (ZF) and regularized ZF (RZF) precoding in large MISO broadcast systems under the assumptions of imperfect channel state information at the transmitter and per-user channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-11 Sebastian Wagner , Romain Couillet , Merouane Debbah , Dirk. T. M. Slock

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

In the context of cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (mMIMO), zero-forcing precoding (ZFP) requires the exchange of instantaneous channel state information and precoded data symbols via a fronthaul network. It causes considerable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

We provide a simple, yet general and accurate framework for analyzing zero-forcing (ZF) precoding performance for a full-dimensional massive multiple-input multiple-output system. Exploiting an order two Neumann series, our framework…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Harsh Tataria , Mansoor Shafi

A modified zero-forcing (MZF) decoder for ill-conditioned Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) channels is proposed. The proposed decoder provides significant performance improvement compared to the traditional zero-forcing decoder by only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Masoud Alghoniemy , Adel B. Abd El-Rahman , Zen Kawasaki

This work investigates the downlink performance of a multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system that employs one-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs) in the receiving and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Anas Chaaban

Cell-free massive MIMO provides ubiquitous connectivity for multiple users, and implementation using radio stripes is very efficient. This paper proposes a parallel scheme for radio stripes to allow access point to do signal processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yihua Ma , Zhifeng Yuan , Guanghui Yu , Yijian Chen