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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

We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with multi-antenna access points and user equipments (UEs) over Weichselberger Rician fading channels with random phase-shifts. More specifically, we investigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Xin Li , Jiayi Zhang , Zhe Wang , Bo Ai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CFmMIMO) coordinates a great number of distributed access points (APs) with central processing units (CPUs), effectively reducing interference and ensuring uniform service quality for user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-23 Phu Lai , Wei Xiang , William Damario Lukito , Khoa Tran Phan , Peng Cheng , Chang Liu , Guoqiang Mao

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are expected to implement advanced cooperative communication techniques to let geographically distributed access points jointly serve user equipments. Building on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Bo Ai

The impressive growth of wireless data networks has recently led to increased attention to the issue of electromagnetic pollution and the fulfillment of electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure limits. This paper tackles the problem of power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Sergi Liesegang , Stefano Buzzi

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

Cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) enhances spectral and energy efficiency compared to conventional cellular networks by enabling joint transmission and reception across a large number of distributed access points…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

This paper proposes the utilization of cell-free massive MIMO (CF-M-MIMO) processing on top of the regular micro/macrocellular deployments typically found in current 5G networks. Towards this end, it contemplates the connection of all base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-13 F. Riera-Palou , G. Femenias , D. López-Pérez , N. Piovesan , A. De Domenico

Cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) is an emerging technology for beyond 5G with its promising features such as higher spectral efficiency and superior spatial diversity as compared to conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Zakir Hussain Shaik , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

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

Cell-free (CF) massive MIMO offers uniform service via distributed access points (APs), which impose high deployment costs. A novel design called hierarchical cell-free (HCF) addresses this problem by replacing some APs with a central base…

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

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, which exploit many geographically distributed access points to coherently serve user equipments via spatial multiplexing on the same time-frequency resource, has become a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Bo Ai , Mérouane Debbah , Khaled B. Letaief

Cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) ensures ubiquitous communication at high spectral efficiency (SE) thanks to increased macro-diversity as compared cellular communications. However, system scalability and performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Giovanni Interdonato , Marcus Karlsson , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

We investigate the energy efficiency performance of cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), where the access points (APs) are connected to a central processing unit (CPU) via limited-capacity links. Thanks to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Manijeh Bashar , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Alister G. Burr , Hien Quoc Ngo , Erik G. Larsson , Pei Xiao

This paper investigates the tradeoff between energyefficiency (EE) and spectral-efficiency (SE) for full-duplex (FD) enabled cellular networks.We assume that small cell base stations are working in the FD mode while user devices still work…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-14 Dingzhu Wen , Guanding Yu , Rongpeng Liy , Yan Cheny , Geoffrey Ye Liz

This paper considers wireless uplink information and downlink power transfer in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output systems. The single-antenna user equipments (UEs) utilize the energy harvested in the downlink to transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

Cell-Free (CF) Massive MIMO (mMIMO) is a technology which can potentially augment not only the deployment of 5G, but also the deployment of beyond 5G (B5G) wireless networks. However, the cost for rolling out such systems may be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Ioannis Chiotis , Aris L. Moustakas

To improve the cellular energy efficiency, without sacrificing quality-of-service (QoS) at the users, the network topology must be densified to enable higher spatial reuse. We analyze a combination of two densification approaches, namely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Emil Björnson , Marios Kountouris , Mérouane Debbah

In this paper, we investigate network-assisted full-duplex (NAFD) cell-free millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with digital-to-analog converter (DAC) quantization and fronthaul compression. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Jiamin Li , Qingrui Fan , Yu Zhang , Pengcheng Zhu , Dongming Wang , Hao Wu , Xiaohu You

Driven by green communications, energy efficiency (EE) has become a new important criterion for designing wireless communication systems. However, high EE often leads to low spectral efficiency (SE), which spurs the research on EE-SE…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Lei Deng , Wenjie Zhang , Yun Rui , Yeo Chai Kiat