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In this paper, we analyze the achievable downlink spectral efficiency of cell-free massive multiple input multiple output (CF-mMIMO) systems, accounting for the effects of channel aging (caused by user mobility) and pilot contamination. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Abhinav Anand , Chandra R. Murthy , Ribhu Chopra

We investigate energy efficiency (EE) optimization for single-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink transmission with only statistical channel state information (CSI) available at the base station. We first show that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Li You , Jiayuan Xiong , Xinping Yi , Jue Wang , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising solution to provide uniform good performance for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications. In this paper, we propose the UAV communication with wireless power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Bo Ai

The emerging cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) is a promising scheme to tackle the capacity crunch in wireless networks. Designing the optimal fronthaul network in the CF-mMIMIO is of utmost importance to deploy a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Pouya Agheli , Mohammad Javad Emadi , Hamzeh Beyranvand

This paper investigates the energy efficiency (EE) optimization in downlink multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). In our research, the statistical channel state information (CSI) is exploited to reduce the signaling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Li You , Yufei Huang , Di Zhang , Zheng Chang , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao

We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with multiple antennas on the users and access points (APs). In previous works, the downlink spectral efficiency (SE) has been evaluated using the hardening bound…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Eren Berk Kama , Junbeom Kim , Emil Björnson

Massive MIMO is a promising technique to meet the exponential growth of mobile traffic demand. However, contrary to the current systems, energy consumption of next generation networks is required to be load adaptive as the network load…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-12-08 M M Aftab Hossain , Cicek Cavdar , Emil Björnson , Riku Jäntti

Massive MIMO is attractive for wireless information and energy transfer due to its ability to focus energy towards desired spatial locations. In this paper, the overall power transfer efficiency (PTE) and the energy efficiency (EE) of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Talha Ahmed Khan , Ali Yazdan , Robert W. Heath

In this paper, we investigate cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems in which access points (APs) are equipped with fluid antennas (FAs) and develop a comprehensive framework for channel estimation, antenna port selection, and uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Maryam Olyaee , Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi

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 consider network-assisted full-duplex (NAFD) cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems, where full-duplex (FD) transmission is virtually realized via half-duplex (HD) hardware devices. The HD access points (APs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Mohammadali Mohammadi , Tung T. Vu , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

In this paper, we investigate the uplink performance of cell-free (CF) extremely large-scale multiple-input-multipleoutput (XL-MIMO) systems, which is a promising technique for future wireless communications. More specifically, we consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Hao Lei , Zhe Wang , Huahua Xiao , Jiayi Zhang , Bo Ai

The coupling of cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) with Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is investigated in this paper. A MEC-enabled CF-mMIMO architecture implementing a distributed user-centric approach both from the radio and the computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi

This paper considers cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output systems where the multiple-antenna access points (APs) assist the single-antenna user equipments (UEs) by wireless power transfer. The UEs utilize the energy harvested in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is considered as a promising technology for achieving the ultimate performance limit. However, due to its distributed architecture and low-cost access points (APs), the signals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jiakang Zheng , Zhuoyi Zhao , Jiayi Zhang , Julian Cheng , Victor C. M. Leung

This paper investigates the energy efficiency (EE) and spectral efficiency (SE) trade-off in uplink distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (D-mMIMO) systems. Unlike conventional approaches where power consumption focuses…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mohd Saif Ali Khan , Karthik RM , Samar Agnihotri

In this paper, we explore the integration of low-power, low-cost stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) into cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems to enhance access point (AP) capabilities and address high…

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

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (Massive MIMO) has been realized as a promising technology for next generation wireless mobile communications, in which Spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE) are two critical issues.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-04 Di Zhang , Zhenyu Zhou , Keping Yu , Takuro Sato

As a key technology for future wireless networks, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) can significantly improve the energy efficiency (EE) and spectral efficiency (SE), and the performance is highly dependant on the degree of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-11 Li You , Jiayuan Xiong , Alessio Zappone , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao

The impressive growth of wireless data networks has recently led to increased attention to the issue of electromagnetic pollution. Specific absorption rates and incident power densities have become popular indicators for measuring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Sergi Liesegang , Stefano Buzzi