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One of the most important challenges in the fifth generation (5G) of telecommunication systems is the efficiency of energy and spectrum. Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems have been proposed by researchers to resolve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Abdolrasoul Sakhaei Gharagezlou , Nima Imani , Mahdi Nangir

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

User-centric (UC) based cell-free (CF) structures can provide the benefits of coverage enhancement for millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems, which is regarded as the key technology of the reliable and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yingrong Zhong , Yashuai Cao , Tiejun Lv

To make indoor industrial cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) networks free from wired fronthaul, this paper studies a multicarrier-division duplex (MDD)-enabled two-tier terahertz (THz) fronthaul scheme. More…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Bohan Li , Diego Dupleich , Guoqing Xia , Huiyu Zhou , Yue Zhang , Pei Xiao , Lie-Liang Yang

We consider the downlink of Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems, where a very large number of distributed access points (APs) simultaneously serve a much smaller number of users. Each AP uses local channel estimates obtained from received uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Hien Quoc Ngo , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang , Erik G. Larsson , Thomas L. Marzetta

Cell-free Massive MIMO (mMIMO) is envisaged to be a next-generation technology beyond 5G with its high spectral efficiency and superior spatial diversity as compared to that of conventional MIMO technology. The main principle is that many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Zakir Hussain Shaik , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) refers to a distributed Massive MIMO system where all the access points (APs) cooperate to coherently serve all the user equipments (UEs), suppress inter-cell interference and mitigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Giovanni Interdonato , Hien Quoc Ngo , Pål Frenger , Erik G. Larsson

Traditional cellular networks struggle with poor quality of service (QoS) for cell-edge users, while cell-free (CF) systems offer uniform QoS but incur high roll-out costs due to acquiring numerous access point (AP) sites and deploying a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

The problem of user scheduling and power allocation in full-duplex (FD) cellular networks is considered, where a FD base station communicates simultaneously with one half-duplex (HD) user on each downlink and uplink channel. First, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 George C. Alexandropoulos , Marios Kountouris , Italo Atzeni

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) provides more uniform spectral efficiency (SE) for users (UEs) than cellular technology. The main challenge to achieve the benefits of cell-free massive MIMO is to realize signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Jiayi Zhang , Jing Zhang , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai

Full duplex (FD) communications, which increases spectral efficiency through simultaneous transmission and reception on the same frequency band, is a promising technology to meet the demand of next generation wireless networks. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-06 Sanjay Goyal , Pei Liu , Shivendra Panwar

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

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has been introduced to provide additional computing capabilities at network edges in order to improve performance of latency critical applications. In this paper, we consider the cell-free (CF) massive MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Sudarshan Mukherjee , Jemin Lee

Backward compatibility is an essential ingredient for the success of new technologies. In the context of in-band full-duplex (FD) communication, FD base stations (BSs) should support half-duplex (HD) users' equipment (UEs) without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Ahmad AlAmmouri , Hesham ElSawy , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The explosive growth of data results in more scarce spectrum resources. It is important to optimize the system performance under limited resources. In this paper, we investigate how to achieve weighted throughput (WTP) maximization for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Jiafei Fu , Pengcheng Zhu , Bo Ai , Jiangzhou Wang , Xiaohu You

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

Standard cell-free (CF) multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) systems is a promising technology to cover the demands for higher data rates in fifth-generation (5G) networks and beyond. These systems assume a large number of distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Emil Björnson , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas , John M. Senior

This paper proposes a novel fluid antenna system (FAS)-enabled architecture to improve energy efficiency (EE) without sacrificing capacity. Specifically, we integrate FAS into cell-free massive MIMO systems to counteract low-resolution…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jun Qian , Ross Murch , Khaled B. Letaief

In this paper, we consider a joint unicast and multi-group multicast cell-free distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, while accounting for co-pilot assignment strategy based channel estimation, pilot contamination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Jiamin Li , Qijun Pan , Zhenggang Wu , Pengcheng Zhu , Dongming Wang , Xiaohu You

In this paper, a general framework for deep learning-based power control methods for max-min, max-product and max-sum-rate optimization in uplink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) systems is proposed. Instead of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Yongshun Zhang , Jiayi Zhang , Yu Jin , Stefano Buzzi , Bo Ai