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We derive a fast and optimal algorithm for solving practical weighted max-min SINR problems in cell-free massive MIMO networks. For the first time, the optimization problem jointly covers long-term power control and distributed beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Lorenzo Miretti , Renato Luis Garrido Cavalcante , Slawomir Stanczak

Power control is becoming increasingly essential for the fifth-generation (5G) and beyond systems. An example use-case, among others, is the unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV) communications where the nearly line-of-sight (LoS) radio channels…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Xuesong Cai , István Kovács , Jeroen Wigard , Preben Mogensen

Recently, the so-called cell-free Massive MIMO architecture has been introduced, wherein a very large number of distributed access points (APs) simultaneously and jointly serve a much smaller number of mobile stations (MSs). A variant of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Stefano Buzzi , Alessio Zappone

This paper optimizes the pilot assignment and pilot transmit powers to mitigate pilot contamination in Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems. While prior works have treated pilot assignment as a combinatorial problem, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

This paper introduces a novel iterative algorithm for optimizing pilot and data power control (PC) in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems, aiming to enhance system performance under real-time channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Saeed Mohammadzadeh , Mostafa Rahmani , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Alister Burr , Pei Xiao

This paper considers the jointly optimal pilot and data power allocation in single cell uplink massive MIMO systems. A closed form solution for the optimal length of the training interval is derived. Using the spectral efficiency (SE) as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hei Victor Cheng , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Energy efficient communication technology has attracted much attention due to the explosive growth of energy consumption in current wireless communication systems. In this letter we focus on fairness-based energy efficiency and aim to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Shiwen He , Yongming Huang , Shi Jin , Fei Yu , Luxi Yang

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 considers pilot design to mitigate pilot contamination and provide good service for everyone in multi-cell Massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems. Instead of modeling the pilot design as a combinatorial assignment…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Cell-Free Massive Multiple-input Multiple-output (mMIMO) consists of many access points (APs) in a coverage area that jointly serve the users. These systems can significantly reduce the interference among the users compared to conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Abbas Khalili , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

We study internet of things (IoT) systems supported by cell-free (CF) massive MIMO (mMIMO) with optimal linear channel estimation. For the uplink, we consider optimal linear MIMO receiver and obtain an uplink SINR approximation involving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Hangsong Yan , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

A large-scale distributed antenna system that serves the users by coherent joint transmission is called Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple input multiple output). For a given user set, only a subset of the access points (APs) is likely needed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

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

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) has been the core of 5G due to its ability to improve spectral efficiency and spatial multiplexing significantly; however, cell-edge users still experience performance degradation due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

In this letter, we investigate the performance of Max Minimum Fairness (MMF) for uplink Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) in short-packet communications. Specifically, considering a Single-Input Single-Output (SISO) Multiple Access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jiawei Xu , Yijie Mao

In this paper, an optimization framework is proposed for joint transceiver beamforming and admission control in massive MIMO cognitive radio networks. The objective of the optimization problem is to support maximum number of secondary users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Shailesh Chaudhari , Danijela Cabric

In this paper, we investigate the uplink transmit power optimization problem in cell-free (CF) extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems. Instead of applying the traditional methods, we propose two signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Ziheng Liu , Zhilong Liu , Jiayi Zhang , Huahua Xiao , Bo Ai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Large-scale distributed antenna systems with many access points (APs) that serve the users by coherent joint transmission is being considered for 5G-and-beyond networks. The technology is called Cell-free Massive MIMO and can provide a more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

This paper studies the transmit power optimization in multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Network-wide max-min fairness (NW-MMF) and network-wide proportional fairness (NW-PF) are two well-known power control…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Amin Ghazanfari , Hei Victor Cheng , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

This paper considers max-min fairness for wireless energy transfer in a downlink multiuser communication system. Our resource allocation design maximizes the minimum harvested energy among multiple multiple-antenna energy harvesting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober