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This paper seeks to determine the most efficient uplink technique for cell-free massive MIMO systems. Despite offering great advances, existing works suffer from fragmented methodologies and inconsistent assumptions (e.g., single- vs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output system with multi-antenna access points (APs) and user equipments (UEs), where the UEs can be served in both the downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) within a resource block. We tackle…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Bikshapathi Gouda , Antti Arvola , Italo Atzeni , Antti Tölli

Multiuser Multi-Packet Transmission (MPT) from an Access Point (AP) equipped with multiple antennas to multiple single-antenna nodes can be achieved by exploiting the spatial dimension of the channel. In this paper we present a queueing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Boris Bellalta , Azadeh Faridi , Jaume Barcelo , Vanesa Daza , Miquel Oliver

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) provides wireless connectivity for a large number of user equipments (UEs) using access points (APs) distributed across a wide area with high spectral efficiency (SE). The energy efficiency (EE) of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Thomas Choi , Masaaki Ito , Issei Kanno , Jorge Gomez-Ponce , Colton Bullard , Takeo Ohseki , Kosuke Yamazaki , Andreas F. Molisch

In this paper, we introduce a mathematical approach for system-level analysis and optimization of densely deployed multiple-antenna cellular networks, where low-energy devices are capable of decoding information data and harvesting power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Lam Thanh Tu , Marco Di Renzo , Justin P. Coon

Multiple transmit antennas in a downlink channel can provide tremendous capacity (i.e. multiplexing) gains, even when receivers have only single antennas. However, receiver and transmitter channel state information is generally required. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Nihar Jindal

Movable antennas (MAs) are a promising paradigm to enhance the spatial degrees of freedom of conventional multi-antenna systems by flexibly adapting the positions of the antenna elements within a given transmit area. In this paper, we model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yifei Wu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wolfgang Gerstacker , Robert Schober

This paper studies a joint communication and sensing (JCAS) system with downlink communication and multi-static sensing for single-target detection in a cloud radio access network architecture. A centralized operation of cell-free massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Zinat Behdad , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Ki Won Sung , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

Beamforming techniques are proposed for a joint multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) radar-communication (RadCom) system, where a single device acts both as a radar and a communication base station (BS) by simultaneously communicating with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Fan Liu , Christos Masouros , Ang Li , Huafei Sun , Lajos Hanzo

Cell-Free (CF) Massive MIMO is an alternative topology for future wireless networks, where a large number of single-antenna access points (APs) are distributed over the coverage area. There are no cells but all users are jointly served by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Zheng Chen , Emil Björnson

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems offer high spectral efficiency (SE) through multiple distributed access points (APs). However, the large number of antennas increases power consumption. We propose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yiyang Zhu , Jiayi Zhang , Enyu Shi , Ziheng Liu , Chau Yuen , Bo Ai

Cell-free massive MIMO improves the fairness among the user equipments (UEs) in the network by distributing many cooperating access points (APs) around the region while connecting them to a centralized cloud-computing unit that coordinates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-05 Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

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

Fluid antennas (FAs) and mobile antennas (MAs) are innovative technologies in wireless communications that are able to proactively improve channel conditions by dynamically adjusting the transmit/receive antenna positions within a given…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Yijie Liu , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen

Multi-Cell (MC) systems are present in mobile network operations from the first generation to the fifth generation of wireless networks, and considers the signals of all users to a base station (BS) centered in a cell. Cell-Free (CF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-04 E. F. de Almeida , R. C. de Lamare

Sharing global channel information at base stations (BSs) is commonly assumed for downlink multi-cell precoding. In the context of massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems where each BS is equipped with a large number of antennas,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Liangbin Li , Alexei Ashikhmin , Thomas Marzetta

Traditional antenna pattern measurements involve minimizing the impact of multipath propagation in the measurement environment. In contrast, this work introduces a measurement approach that uses rather than mitigates multipath propagation.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Daniel D. Stancil

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

A multiplicity of autonomous terminals simultaneously transmits data streams to a compact array of antennas. The array uses imperfect channel-state information derived from transmitted pilots to extract the individual data streams. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-23 Hien Quoc Ngo , Erik G. Larsson , Thomas L. Marzetta

Pixel antenna is a promising technology to enhance the wireless communication data rate by adaptively reconfiguring each antenna's radiation pattern via a so-called antenna coding technique which controls the states of switches connected to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shenrui Lin , Shuowen Zhang