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Ubiquitous cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) combines massive MIMO technology and user-centric transmission in a distributed architecture. All the access points (APs) in the network cooperate to jointly and coherently…

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

We investigate the coexistence of underlay spectrum sharing in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. A primary system with geographically distributed primary access points (P-APs) serves a multitude of primary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Diluka Loku Galappaththige , Gayan Amarasuriya Aruma Baduge

This paper studies joint spectrum allocation and user association in large heterogeneous cellular networks. The objective is to maximize some network utility function based on given traffic statistics collected over a slow timescale,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Binnan Zhuang , Dongning Guo , Ermin Wei , Michael L. Honig

We consider a low Earth orbit downlink communication, where multiple satellites jointly serve multi-antenna ground users, transmitting multiple spatial streams per user. Using a line-of-sight-dominant satellite channel model with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Parisa Ramezani , Emil Björnson

Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) is a flexible and robust multiple access scheme for downlink multi-antenna wireless networks. RSMA relies on multi-antenna Rate-Splitting (RS) at the transmitter and Successive Interference Cancellation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Onur Dizdar , Yijie Mao , Bruno Clerckx

In the cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) system, the centralized transmission scheme is widely adopted to manage the inter-user interference. Unfortunately, its implementation is limited by the extensive signaling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Hongkang Yu , Xinquan Ye , Yijian Chen

This paper introduces an access point-user (AP-UE) association strategy combined with pilot power allocation to mitigate multiuser interference and enhance spectral efficiency (SE) in clustered cell-free massive MIMO (CCF-mMIMO) networks.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 S. Mohammadzadeh , S. Mashdour , R. C. de Lamare , K. Cumanan , C. Li

This paper considers sparse device activity detection for cellular machine-type communications with non-orthogonal signatures using the approximate message passing algorithm. This paper compares two network architectures, massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Zhilin Chen , Foad Sohrabi , Wei Yu

This paper considers two base stations (BSs) powered by renewable energy serving two users cooperatively. With different BS energy arrival rates, a fractional joint transmission (JT) strategy is proposed, which divides each transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jie Gong , Sheng Zhou , Zhenyu Zhou

Sparse Code Multiple Access (SCMA), a non-orthogonal multiple access scheme, has been introduced as a key 5G technology to improve spectral efficiency. In this work, we propose SCMA to enable open-loop coordinated multipoint (CoMP) joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Usa Vilaipornsawai , Hosein Nikopour , Alireza Bayesteh , Jianglie Ma

This work proposes novel approaches that jointly design user equipment (UE) association and power control (PC) in a downlink user-centric cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CFmMIMO) network, where each UE is only served by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Chongzheng Hao , Tung Thanh Vu , Hien Quoc Ngo , Minh N. Dao , Xiaoyu Dang , Chenghua Wang , Michail Matthaiou

This paper studies cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems that underpin simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) for separate information users (IUs) and energy users (EUs) in Internet of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Mohammadali Mohammadi , Le-Nam Tran , Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system with joint unicast and multi-group multicast transmissions. We derive exact closed-form expressions for the downlink achievable spectral efficiency (SE) of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Mustafa S. Abbas , Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

This paper considers secure simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The system consists of a large number of randomly (Poisson-distributed) located…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Mahmoud Alageli , Aissa Ikhlef , Fahad Alsifiany , Mohammed A. M. Abdullah , Gaojie Chen , Jonathon Chambers

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

In this paper, we address two crucial challenges in the design of cell-free (CF) systems: degradation in the performance of CF systems by imperfect channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT) and high computational/signaling loads…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 A. Flores , R. C. de Lamare , K. V. Mishra

Contrary to conventional massive MIMO cellular configurations plagued by inter-cell interference, cell-free massive MIMO systems distribute network resources across the coverage area, enabling users to connect with multiple access points…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Giovanni Di Gennaro , Amedeo Buonanno , Gianmarco Romano , Stefano Buzzi , Francesco A. N Palmieri

We consider the downlink of a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network where numerous distributed access points (APs) serve a smaller number of users under time division duplex operation. An important issue in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-12 L. D. Nguyen , T. Q. Duong , H. Q. Ngo , K. Tourki

In this work, we consider the downlink of a multi-cell multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system and find the jointly optimal number of base station (BS) antennas and transmission powers that minimize the power consumption while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Kamil Senel , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

We consider the downlink of Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems, where a very large number of distributed access points (APs) simultaneously serve a much smaller number of users. Each AP uses local channel estimates obtained from received uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Hien Quoc Ngo , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang , Erik G. Larsson , Thomas L. Marzetta