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With the growing interest in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, the benefits of single-antenna access points (APs) versus multi-antenna APs must be analyzed in order to optimize deployment. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-05 Thomas Choi , Peng Luo , Akshay Ramesh , Andreas F. Molisch

This paper investigates the downlink of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems that include a single cell Base Station (BS) equipped with large number of antennas serving multiple users. As the number of RF chains is getting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Rami Hamdi , Wessam Ajib

In cellular wireless networks, user association refers to the problem of assigning mobile users to base station cells -- a critical, but challenging, problem in many emerging small cell and heterogeneous networks. This paper considers a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Changkyu Kim , Russell Ford , Yanjia Qi , Sundeep Rangan

This paper considers the fundamental power allocation problem in cell-free massive mutiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems which aims at maximizing the total energy efficiency (EE) under a sum power constraint at each access point…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Trang C. Mai , Hien Quoc Ngo , Le-Nam Tran

This paper considers a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system that consists of a large number of geographically distributed access points (APs) serving multiple users via coherent joint transmission. The downlink…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-15 Mahmoud Zaher , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Marina Petrova

Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) has recently attracted much attention, attributed to its potential to deliver uniform service quality. However, the adoption of a cell-free architecture raises concerns about the high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

Optimal AP clustering and power allocation are critical in user-centric cell-free massive MIMO systems. Existing deep learning models lack flexibility to handle dynamic network configurations. Furthermore, many approaches overlook pilot…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Irched Chafaa , Giacomo Bacci , Luca Sanguinetti

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising cellular network. In this network, a large number of distributed and multi-antenna access points (APs) jointly serve many single antenna users using the same…

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

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

Two key traits of 5G cellular networks are much higher base station (BS) densities - especially in the case of low-power BSs - and the use of massive MIMO at these BSs. This paper explores how massive MIMO can be used to jointly maximize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Qiaoyang Ye , Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu , Haralabos C. Papadopoulos , Constantine Caramanis , Jeffrey G. Andrews

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

Traditional cellular networks struggle with poor quality of service (QoS) for cell-edge users, while cell-free (CF) systems offer uniform QoS but incur high roll-out costs due to acquiring numerous access point (AP) sites and deploying a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

In this paper, we investigate energy-efficient (EE) power allocation (PA) for a special downlink scenario of the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We consider a minimum power required for each user to ensure that the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Abdolrasoul Sakhaei Gharagezlou , Mahdi Nangir , Nima Imani , Erfan Mirhosseini

We study support for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications through a cell-free massive MIMO architecture, wherein a large number of access points (APs) is deployed in place of large co-located massive MIMO arrays. We consider also a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Carmen D'Andrea , Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez , Giovanni Geraci , Lorenzo Galati Giordano , Stefano Buzzi

In this letter, we propose a six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA)-aided cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system to fully exploit its macro spatial diversity, where a set of distributed access points (APs), each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Xiaoming Shi , Xiaodan Shao , Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

We consider a multigroup multicast cell-free multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink system with short-term power constraints. In particular, the normalized conjugate beamforming scheme is adopted at each access point (AP) to keep…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-14 Muhammad Farooq , Markku Juntti , Le-Nam Tran

In this paper, we investigate resource allocation for multicarrier communication systems employing a full-duplex base station for serving multiple half-duplex downlink and uplink users simultaneously. We study the joint power and subcarrier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Yan Sun , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

This work proposes a joint power control and access points (APs) scheduling algorithm for uplink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) networks without channel hardening assumption. Extensive studies have done on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Hyeonsik Yeom , Junguk Park , Jinho Choi , Jeongseok Ha

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

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output is a potential candidate for future networks with pervasive connectivity by utilizing coherent joint transmission and distributed antenna arrays. This paper studies the exploitation of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Trinh Van Chien , Bui Trong Duc , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou