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This paper presents a comprehensive communication theoretic model for the physical layer of a cell-free user-centric network, formed by user equipments (UEs), radio units (RUs), and decentralized units (DUs), uniformly spatially distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Fabian Göttsch , Giuseppe Caire , Wen Xu , Martin Schubert

In this work, we consider the problem of multiuser scheduling for the downlink of cell-free massive multi-input multi-output networks with clustering. In particular, we develop a multiuser scheduling algorithm based on an enhanced greedy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 S. Mashdour , R. C. de Lamare , J. P. Sales

This paper studies joint spectrum allocation and user association in large heterogeneous cellular networks. The objective is to maximize some network utility function based on given traffic statistics collected over a slow timescale,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Binnan Zhuang , Dongning Guo , Ermin Wei , Michael L. Honig

Joint unicast and multicast transmissions are becoming increasingly important in practical wireless systems, such as Internet of Things networks. This paper investigates a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output system that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Mustafa S. Abbas , Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Hyundong Shin , Michail Matthaiou

This letter considers the problem of joint user association (UA), sub-channel assignment, antenna selection (AS), and power control in the uplink (UL) of a heterogeneous network such that the data rate of small cell users can be maximized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Ata Khalili , Soroush Akhlaghi , Hina Tabassum , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

We develop two distributed downlink resource allocation algorithms for user-centric, cell-free, spatially-distributed, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks. In such networks, each user is served by a subset of nearby transmitters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Hussein A. Ammar , Raviraj Adve , Shahram Shahbazpanahi , Gary Boudreau , Kothapalli Venkata Srinivas

This paper provides an analytical performance characterization of both uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) user-centric network multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where a cooperating BS cluster is formed for each user individually and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Caiyi Zhu , Wei Yu

We exploit a general cluster-based network architecture for a fronthaul-limited user-centric cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system under different degrees of cooperation among the access points (APs) to achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zahra Mobini , Ahmet Hasim Gokceoglu , Li Wang , Gunnar Peters , Hyundong Shin , Hien Quoc Ngo

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

We consider fronthaul-limited generalized zeroforcing-based cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems with multiple-antenna users and multipleantenna access points (APs) relying on both cooperative beamforming (CB)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zahra Mobini , Ahmet Hasim Gokceoglu , Li Wang , Gunnar Peters , Hien Quoc Ngo

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) systems serve the user equipments (UEs) by geographically distributed access points (APs) by means of joint transmission and reception. To limit the power consumption due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Shuaifei Chen , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Bo Ai

In this paper, we investigate a cell-free massive MIMO system with both access points (APs) and user equipments (UEs) equipped with multiple antennas over jointly-correlated Rayleigh fading channels. We study four uplink implementations,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Zhe Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Bo Ai , Chau Yuen , Mérouane Debbah

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

We consider scalable cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output networks under an open radio access network paradigm comprising user equipments (UEs), radio units (RUs), and decentralized processing units (DUs). UEs are served by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Zhiyang Li , Fabian Göttsch , Siyao Li , Ming Chen , Giuseppe Caire

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

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems are investigated where distributed access points jointly serve users and sensing targets. We demonstrate that only a subset of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Nguyen Xuan Tung , Le Tung Giang , Trinh Van Chien , Hoang Trong Minh , Lajos Hanzo

How to meet the demand for increasing number of users, higher data rates, and stringent quality-of-service (QoS) in the beyond fifth-generation (B5G) networks? Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is considered as a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-19 Shuaifei Chen , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Jing Zhang , Bo Ai

Cell-Free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are two promising technologies for application to beyond-5G networks. This paper considers Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Symeon Chatzinotas , Marco Di Renzo , Björn Ottersten

This paper investigates the problem of activity detection and channel estimation in cooperative multi-cell massive access systems with temporally correlated activity, where all access points (APs) are connected to a central unit via…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Weifeng Zhu , Meixia Tao , Xiaojun Yuan , Fan Xu , Yunfeng Guan

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is a key emerging 6G technology. Despite progress, ISAC still lacks scalable methods for joint AP clustering and user/target scheduling in distributed deployments under fronthaul limits. Moreover,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Mehdi Zafari , A. Lee Swindlehurst