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Imagine a coverage area with many wireless access points that cooperate to jointly serve the users, instead of creating autonomous cells. Such a cell-free network operation can potentially resolve many of the interference issues that appear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

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

The traditional centralized baseband processing architecture is faced with the bottlenecks of high computation complexity and excessive fronthaul communication, especially when the number of antennas at the base station (BS) is large. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Yanqing Xu , Bo Wang , Enbin Song , Qingjiang Shi , Tsung-Hui Chang

Millimeter wave systems suffer from high power consumption and are constrained to use low resolution quantizers --digital to analog and analog to digital converters (DACs and ADCs). However, low resolution quantization leads to reduced data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Abbas Khalili , Elza Erkip , Sundeep Rangan

This paper evaluates the performance of multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems in which the base station is equipped with a dynamic metasurface antenna (DMA). Due to the physical implementation of DMAs,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Pablo Ramírez-Espinosa , Robin Jess Williams , Jide Yuan , Elisabeth de Carvalho

This paper studies learning-based decentralized power control methods for cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems where a central processor (CP) controls access points (APs) through fronthaul coordination. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Daesung Yu , Hoon Lee , Seung-Eun Hong , Seok-Hwan Park

The deployment of large-scale antenna arrays for cellular base stations (BSs), termed as `Massive MIMO', has been a key enabler for meeting the ever-increasing capacity requirement for 5G communication systems and beyond. Despite their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Ang Li , Christos Masouros , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Wei Yu

The multiple access channel (MAC) with many-user is a general model for massive machine type communications. In this paradigm, the number of users may be comparable or even larger than the coding blocklength $n$. In contrast, classical MAC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Fan Wei , Yongpeng Wu , Wen Chen , Yanlin Geng , Giuseppe Caire

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is expected to be a vital component in future 5G systems. As such, there is a need for new modeling in order to investigate the performance of massive MIMO not only at the physical layer, but…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-13 Emma Fitzgerald , Michał Pióro , Fredrik Tufvesson

In this paper, we consider massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems for both downlink and uplink scenarios, where three radio units (RUs) connected via one digital unit (DU) support multiple user equipments (UEs) at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yeon-Geun Lim , Chan-Byoung Chae , Giuseppe Caire

End-to-end data-driven machine learning (ML) of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems has been shown to have the potential of exceeding the performance of engineered MIMO transceivers, without any a priori knowledge of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-21 Jinxiang Song , Christian Häger , Jochen Schröder , Tim O'Shea , Henk Wymeersch

We present a general rate duality between the multiple access channel (MAC) and the broadcast channel (BC) which is applicable to systems with and without nonlinear interference cancellation. Different to the state-of-the-art rate duality…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Raphael Hunger , Michael Joham

Base station (BS) architectures for massive multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems are equipped with hundreds of antennas to serve tens of users on the same time-frequency channel. The immense number of BS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Oscar Castañeda , Sven Jacobsson , Giuseppe Durisi , Christoph Studer

In a cell-free (CF) massive MIMO architecture a very large number of distributed access points (APs) simultaneously and jointly serves a much smaller number of mobile stations (MSs); a variant of the cell-free technique is the user-centric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Mario Alonzo , Stefano Buzzi

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

This paper considers the uplink of user-centric cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems. We utilize the user-centric dynamic cooperation clustering (DCC) framework and derive the achievable spectral efficiency with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

The increasingly demanding objectives for next generation wireless communications have spurred recent research activities on multi-antenna transceiver hardware architectures and relevant intelligent communication schemes. Among them belong…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-18 George C. Alexandropoulos , Md Atiqul Islam , Besma Smida

We consider the multi-cell uplink (network MIMO) where M base-stations (BSs) communicate simultaneously with M user terminals (UTs). Although the potential benefit of multi-cell cooperation increases with M, the overhead related to learning…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-13 Jakob Hoydis , Mari Kobayashi , Merouane Debbah

For a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, restricting the number of RF chains to far less than the number of antenna elements can significantly reduce the implementation cost compared to the full complexity RF chain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Weiheng Ni , Xiaodai Dong

We study the maximum sum rate optimization problem in the multiple-input multiple-output interfering broadcast channel. The multiple-antenna transmitters and receivers are assumed to have perfect channel state information. In this setting,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-07 Rami Mochaourab , Mats Bengtsson