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This paper considers a mmWave cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) network composed of a large number of geographically distributed access points (APs) simultaneously serving multiple user equipments (UEs) via coherent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-03 Mahmoud Zaher , Emil Björnson , Marina Petrova

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) and extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) are regarded as promising innovations for the forthcoming generation of wireless communication systems. Their significant advantages in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Zhilong Liu , Jiayi Zhang , Ziheng Liu , Hongyang Du , Zhe Wang , Dusit Niyato , Mohsen Guizani , Bo Ai

Millimeter wave MIMO combines the benefits of compact antenna arrays with a large number of elements and massive bandwidths, so that fully digital beamforming has the potential of supporting a large number of simultaneous users with {\it…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-02 Mohammed Abdelghany , Ali A. Farid , Upamanyu Madhow , Mark J. W. Rodwell

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

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems show great potentials in low-mobility scenarios, due to cell boundary disappearance and strong macro diversity. However, the great Doppler frequency offset (DFO) leads to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Zhetao Li , Bo Ai

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems represent a promising approach to increase the spectral efficiency of wireless communication systems. However, near-optimal beamforming solutions require a large amount of signaling exchange between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-08 Hamed Hojatian , Jeremy Nadal , Jean-Francois Frigon , Francois Leduc-Primeau

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) deployments are usually investigated with half-duplex nodes and high-capacity fronthaul links. To leverage the possible gains in throughput and energy efficiency (EE) of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-11 Soumyadeep Datta , Ekant Sharma , Dheeraj Naidu Amudala , Rohit Budhiraja , Shivendra S. Panwar

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

In a cell-free wireless network, distributed access points (APs) jointly serve all user equipments (UEs) within the their coverage area by using the same time/frequency resources. In this paper, we develop a novel downlink cell-free…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Yasser Al-Eryani , Ekram Hossain

In this study, we revisit the performance analysis of distributed beamforming architectures in dense user-centric cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems in line-of-sight (LoS) scenarios. By incorporating a recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Noor Ul Ain , Lorenzo Miretti , Sławomir Stańczak

The problem of max-min signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR) for uplink transmission of cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system is considered. We assume that the system is employed with local minimum mean…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-01 W. A. Chamalee Wickrama Arachchi , K. B. Shashika Manosha , N. Rajatheva , M. Latva-aho

The increasing demand for wireless data transfer has been the driving force behind the widespread adoption of Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) technology in 5G. The next-generation MIMO technology is now being developed to…

Previous works on cell-free massive MIMO mostly consider physical-layer and fronthaul transport aspects. How to deploy cell-free massive MIMO functionality in a practical wireless system is an open problem. This paper proposes a new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Meysam Masoudi , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is a promising technology to cope with the exponential increase in 5G data traffic. Such networks typically require a very dense deployment of base stations. A subset of those, so-called macro base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Dingwen Yuan , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Jörg Widmer , Matthias Hollick

We study an uplink scenario of a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system with limited capacity fronthaul links (LC-FHLs) connecting each access point (AP) to the central unit (CU), where user equipments and APs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Hamed Masoumi , Mohammad Javad Emadi

In this paper, we investigate a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output system with both access points and user equipments equipped with multiple antennas over the Weichselberger Rayleigh fading channel. We study the uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Zhe Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Hien Quoc Ngo , Bo Ai , Mérouane Debbah

In this paper, we first propose interference alignment (IA) scheme for uplink transmission of multiple-input-mulitple-output (MIMO) cellular network with a help of relay which operates in halfduplex mode. The proposed scheme only requires…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Hoyoun Kim , Jong-Seon No

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) is a breakthrough technology for beyond-5G systems, designed to significantly boost the energy and spectral efficiencies of future mobile networks while ensuring a consistent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Alejandro de la Fuente , Guillem Femenias , Felip Riera-Palou , Giovanni Interdonato

Existing works on Cell-Free Massive MIMO primarily focus on optimising system throughput and energy efficiency under high-traffic scenarios with only a limited focus on variable user demand as required by higher network layers.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Robbert Beerten , Vida Ranjbar , Hazem Sallouha , Sofie Pollin

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems are emerging as promising alternatives to cellular networks, especially in ultra-dense environments. However, further capacity enhancement requires the deployment of more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Enyu Shi , Jiayi Zhang , Jiancheng An , Guangyang Zhang , Ziheng Liu , Chau Yuen , Bo Ai