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This paper studies a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system with multiple RISs. Joint design of transmit precoding, RIS coefficients, and receive combining is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Navid Reyhanian , Reza Ghaderi Zefreh , Parisa Ramezani , Emil Bjornson

In this work, we consider the uplink of a scalable cell-free massive MIMO system where the users are served only by a subset of access points (APs) in the network. The APs are physically grouped into predetermined "cell-centric clusters",…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Carmen D'Andrea , 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

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 networks outperform cellular networks in many aspects, yet their efficiency is affected by imperfect channel state information (CSI). In order to address this issue, this work presents a robust resource allocation framework…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-20 S. Mashdour , A. Flores , R. C. de Lamare

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CFmMIMO) is a paradigm that can improve users' spectral efficiency (SE) far beyond traditional cellular networks. Increased spatial diversity in CFmMIMO is achieved by spreading the antennas…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-01 Vida Ranjbar , Robbert Beerten , Marc Moonen , Sofie Pollin

Cell-free massive MIMO has matured into a key candidate technology for 6G and beyond, owing to its ability to provide nearly uniform service quality to many user equipments (UEs) over the same time-frequency resources. Unlike conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Salih Gümüşbuğa

Cell-Free massive MIMO networks provide huge power gains and resolve inter-cell interference by coherent processing over a massive number of distributed instead of co-located antennas in access points (APs). Cost-efficient hardware is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Yibo Wu , Luca Sanguinetti , Ulf Gustavsson , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Henk Wymeersch

This letter proposes a multi-stream selection framework for \ac{CF-MIMO} networks. Partially coherent transmission has been considered by clustering \acp{AP} into phase-aligned clusters to address the challenges of phase misalignment and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Esra Aycan Beyazıt , Jeroen Famaey , Nina Slamnik-Kriještorac , Johann M. Marquez-Barja , Miguel Camelo Botero

We consider the downlink scenario of multiuser multiple-input-single-output (MU-MISO) communication systems with constant envelope (CE) signals emitted from each antenna. This results in energy efficient power amplifiers (PAs). We propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Andreas Noll , Hela Jedda , Josef A. Nossek

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output is a potential candidate for future networks with pervasive connectivity by utilizing coherent joint transmission and distributed antenna arrays. This paper studies the exploitation of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Trinh Van Chien , Bui Trong Duc , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

This work focuses on wideband intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided multiuser MIMO systems. One of the major challenges of this scenario is the joint design of the frequency-dependent base station (BS) precoder and user filters, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Darian Pérez-Adán , Michael Joham , Óscar Fresnedo , José P. González-Coma , Luis Castedo , Wolfgang Utschick

In this paper, we study a cell-free multiple-input multiple-output network equipped with integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) access points (APs). The distributed APs are used to jointly serve the communication needs of user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Steven Rivetti , Emil Bjornson , Mikael Skoglund

Cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is considered, where distributed access points (APs) multiply the received signal by the conjugate of the estimated channel, and send back a quantized version of this weighted signal…

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

With the explosive growth of data traffic and the ubiquitous connectivity of wireless devices, the energy demands of wireless networks have inevitably escalated. Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a promising solution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Hongyi Luo , Wenyu Song , Daniel K. C. So , Zahra Mobini , Zhiguo Ding

Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) has recently attracted much attention, attributed to its potential to deliver uniform service quality. However, the adoption of a cell-free architecture raises concerns about the high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

We investigate the integration of stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) into cell-free massive multiple input multiple output (CF-mMIMO) system to enhance the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) performance.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Thien Duc Hua , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

In this paper, we consider and study a cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) system aided with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), where a large number of access points (APs) cooperate to serve a smaller number of users with the help of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Bayan Al-Nahhas , Mohanad Obeed , Anas Chaaban , Md. Jahangir Hossain

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), with a large number of distributed access points (APs) that jointly serve the user equipments (UEs), is a promising network architecture for future wireless communications. To reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Jiayi Zhang , Yinghua Wei , Emil Björnson , Yu Han , Xu Li

We consider the downlink of a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where large number of access points (APs) simultaneously serve a group of users. Two fundamental problems are of interest, namely (i) to maximize…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Muhammad Farooq , Hien Quoc Ngo , Le-Nam Tran