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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

In this paper we discuss the requirements for a radio access network architecture for ultra-dense networks for "smart city" applications, and show that coordination is required between access points to overcome the effects of interference.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Alister Burr , Manijeh Bashar , Dick Maryopi

Massive MIMO system yields significant improvements in spectral and energy efficiency for future wireless communication systems. The regularized zero-forcing (RZF) beamforming is able to provide good performance with the capability of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Hayoung Choi , Tao Jiang , Yuanming Shi , Xuan Liu , Khaled B. Letaief

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are cellular networks where the base stations (BSs) are equipped with unconventionally many antennas. Such large antenna arrays offer huge spatial degrees-of-freedom for transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-20 Emil Björnson , Michail Matthaiou , Mérouane Debbah

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

In this paper we consider a time-division duplex cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where many distributed access points (APs) simultaneously serve many users. A normalized conjugate beamforming scheme, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Giovanni Interdonato , Hien Quoc Ngo , Erik G. Larsson , Pål Frenger

In a cell-free massive MIMO architecture a very large number of distributed access points simultaneously and jointly serves a much smaller number of mobile stations; a variant of the cell-free technique is the user-centric approach, wherein…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-28 Mario Alonzo , Stefano Buzzi , Alessio Zappone , Ciro D'Elia

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are cellular networks where the base stations (BSs) are equipped with unconventionally many antennas, deployed on co-located or distributed arrays. Huge spatial degrees-of-freedom are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-30 Emil Björnson , Michail Matthaiou , Mérouane Debbah

In this paper, with the aim of addressing the stringent computing and quality-of-service (QoS) requirements of recently introduced advanced multimedia services, we consider a cell-free massive MIMO-enabled mobile edge network. In…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Fitsum Debebe Tilahun , Ameha Tsegaye Abebe , Chung G. Kang

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems have been drawing considerable interest due to the growing throughput demands on wireless networks. In the uplink, massive MIMO systems are commonly studied assuming that each base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Nir Shlezinger , Yonina C. Eldar

Relay systems improve both coverage and system capacity. Towards this direction, full-duplex (FD) technology, being able to boost the spectral efficiency by transmitting and receiving simultaneously on the same frequency and time resources,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

Multiple-input multiple-output has been a key technology for wireless systems for decades. For typical MIMO communication systems, antenna array elements are usually separated by half of the carrier wavelength, thus termed as conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Huizhi Wang , Chao Feng , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Chau Yuen , Bruno Clerckx , Rui Zhang

Dealing with nonlinear effects of the radio-frequency(RF) chain is a key issue in the realization of very large-scale multi-antenna (MIMO) systems. Achieving the remarkable gains possible with massive MIMO requires that the signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Amine Mezghani , Daniel Plabst , Lee A. Swindlehurst , Inbar Fijalkow , Josef A. Nossek

Massive multiple-input-multiple-output (M-MIMO) features a capability for spatial multiplexing of large number of users. This number becomes even more extreme in extra-large (XL-MIMO), a variant of M-MIMO where the antenna array is of very…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Victor Croisfelt Rodrigues , Abolfazl Amiri , Taufik Abrão , Elisabeth de Carvalho , Petar Popovski

In cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output systems, downlink power control is essential to ensure uniformly high service quality across users. Existing methods range from centralized iterative approaches requiring global channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Giovanni Di Gennaro , Amedeo Buonanno , Gianmarco Romano , Francesco Verde , Stefano Buzzi , Francesco A. N. Palmieri

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

This work revisits a recently proposed precoding design for massive multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) systems that is based on the use of an instantaneous total power constraint. The main advantages of this technique lie in its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Houssem Sifaou , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Limited-backhaul cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), in which the fog radio access network (F-RAN) is implemented to exchange the information between access points (APs) and the central processing unit (CPU), is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Manijeh Bashar , Hien Quoc Ngo , Alister G. Burr , Dick Maryopi , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Erik G. Larsson

In the conventional multiuser MIMO systems, user selection and scheduling has previously been used as an effective way to increase the sum rate performance of the system. However, the recent concepts of the massive MIMO systems (at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Waqas Ahmad , Geamel Alyami , Ivica Kostanic

In this paper, the impacts of imperfect channel covariance matrix on the spectral efficiency (SE) of cell-free distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are analyzed. We propose to estimate the channel covariance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Feng Ye , Jiamin Li , Pengcheng Zhu , Dongming Wang , Xiaohu You