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In this paper, a downlink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF massive MIMO) system and a network clustering is considered. Closed form sum-rate expressions are derived for CF and the clustered CF (CLCF) networks where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-28 S. Mashdour , R. C. de Lamare

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a potential key technology for fifth generation wireless communication networks. A mixed quality-of-service (QoS) problem is investigated in the uplink of a cell-free massive MIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-20 Manijeh Bashar , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Alister G. Burr , Hien Quoc Ngo , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we consider and study a cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) system aided with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), where a large number of access points (APs) cooperate to serve a smaller number of users with the help of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Bayan Al-Nahhas , Mohanad Obeed , Anas Chaaban , Md. Jahangir Hossain

This paper investigates the downlink power allocation of the simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-assisted cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with multi-antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jun Qian , Ross Murch , Khaled B. Letaief

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-M-MIMO) systems represent an evolution of the classical cellular architecture that has dominated the mobile landscape for decades. In CF-M-MIMO, a central processing unit (CPU) controls a multitude of access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-27 Felip Riera-Palou , Guillem Femenias

In this paper, we investigate a cell-free massive MIMO system with both access points and user equipments equipped with multiple antennas over the Weichselberger Rayleigh fading channel. We study the uplink spectral efficiency (SE) based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Zhe Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Hien Quoc Ngo , Bo Ai , Mérouane Debbah

Cell-free massive MIMO is one of the core technologies for future wireless networks. It is expected to bring enormous benefits, including ultra-high reliability, data throughput, energy efficiency, and uniform coverage. As a radically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Hengtao He , Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Integrating cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) with simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs) can provide ubiquitous connectivity and enhance coverage. This paper explores…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jun Qian , Ross Murch , Khaled B. Letaief

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

We investigate a fronthaul-limited cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system and propose a hybrid centralized-distributed precoding strategy that dynamically adapts to varying fronthaul and spectral efficiency (SE)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Ardavan Rahimian , Anvar Tukmanov , David Townend , Michail Matthaiou , Simon L. Cotton

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

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is expected to play a central role in future wireless systems. The deployment of large antenna arrays at the base station and the mobile users offers multiplexing and beamforming gains that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Young-Han Nam , Jianzhong Zhang , Robert W. Heath

Large-scale multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems are capable of achieving high date rate. However, given the high hardware cost and excessive power consumption of massive MIMO systems, as a remedy, intelligent metasurfaces have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Qingchao Li , Mohammed El-Hajjar , Chao Xu , Jiancheng An , Chau Yuen , Lajos Hanzo

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MaMIMO) has become an integral part of the fifth-generation (5G) standard, and is envisioned to be further developed in beyond 5G (B5G) networks. With a massive number of antennas at the base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Anup Mishra , Yijie Mao , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Luca Sanguinetti , Bruno Clerckx

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 decode-and-forward (DF) multi-way massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay system where many users exchange their data with the aid of a relay station equipped with a massive antenna array. We propose a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Chung Duc Ho , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou , Trung Q. Duong

This paper studies the transmit power optimization in a multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. To overcome the scalability issue of network-wide max-min fairness (NW-MMF), we propose a novel power control (PC)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Amin Ghazanfari , Hei Victor Cheng , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF mMIMO) is a promising next generation wireless architecture to realize federated learning (FL). However, sensitive information of user equipments (UEs) may be exposed to the involved access points or the central…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Jiayi Zhang , Jing Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

Massive MIMO is a promising technique to increase the spectral efficiency (SE) of cellular networks, by deploying antenna arrays with hundreds or thousands of active elements at the base stations and performing coherent transceiver…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-21 Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson , Mérouane Debbah

This paper studies a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where its access points (APs) and users are equipped with multiple antennas. Two transmission protocols are considered. In the first transmission protocol,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Trang C. Mai , Hien Quoc Ngo , Trung Q. Duong