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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

We consider multi-group multicast precoding designs for cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. To optimize the transmit and receive beamforming strategies, we focus on minimizing the sum of the maximum mean squared…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Bikshapathi Gouda , Italo Atzeni , Antti Tölli

Nonlinear precoding and pulse shaping are jointly considered in multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with low-resolution D/A-converters (DACs) in terms of algorithmic approach as well as large system performance.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Amine Mezghani , Robert W. Heath

This paper considers cell-free and user-centric approaches for coverage improvement in wireless cellular systems operating at millimeter wave frequencies, and proposes downlink power control algorithms aimed at maximizing the global energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Mario Alonzo , Stefano Buzzi , Alessio Zappone

This paper investigates multi-target detection in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system within a cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) framework. We adopt a user-centric approach for communication user equipments (UEs) and a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Zinat Behdad , Ozlem Tugfe Demir , Ki Won Sung , Cicek Cavdar

Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) refers to a distributed Massive MIMO system where all the access points (APs) cooperate to coherently serve all the user equipments (UEs), suppress inter-cell interference and mitigate…

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

Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is a promising distributed network architecture for 5G-and-beyond systems. It guarantees ubiquitous coverage at high spectral efficiency (SE) by leveraging signal co-processing at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Giovanni Interdonato , Marcus Karlsson , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

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

This paper investigates the joint power allocation and user association problem in multi-cell Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) downlink (DL) systems. The target is to minimize the total transmit power consumption when each user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-08 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

To ensure coherent signal processing across distributed Access Points (APs) in Cell-Free Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (CF-mMIMO) systems, a fronthaul connection between the APs and a Central Processor (CP) is imperative. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Sangwon Jo , Hoon Lee , Seok-Hwan Park

In future wireless networks, one fundamental challenge for massive machine-type communications (mMTC) lies in the reliable support of massive connectivity with low latency. Against this background, this paper proposes a compressive sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Malong Ke , Zhen Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Xiangming Meng

In this paper, we investigate the design of linear precoders for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) multiple access channels (MAC). We assume that statistical channel state information (CSI) is available at the transmitters and consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Yongpeng Wu , Chao-Kai Wen , Chengshan Xiao , Xiqi Gao , Robert Schober

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 investigates the network-assisted full-duplex (NAFD) cell-free millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks, where the distribution of the transmitting access points (T-APs) and receiving access points (R-APs) across distinct geographical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Qingrui Fan , Yu Zhang , Jiamin Li , Dongming Wang , Hongbiao Zhang , Xiaohu You

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

Densification of access points (APs) in wireless local area networks (WLANs) increases the interference and the contention domains of each AP due to multiple overlapped basic service sets (BSSs). Consequently, high interference from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-19 Phillip B. Oni , Steven D. Blostein

In this paper, we consider the power allocation problem for the downlink of the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We propose a new scheme by exploiting the water-filling algorithm in a cell with two zones. It is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Abdolrasoul Sakhaei Gharagezlou , Jafar Pourrostam , Mahdi Nangir , Mir Mahdi Safari

This paper considers cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output systems where the multiple-antenna access points (APs) assist the single-antenna user equipments (UEs) by wireless power transfer. The UEs utilize the energy harvested in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

We consider the design of linear precoders and receivers in a Multiple-Input Single-Output (MISO) Broadcast Channel (BC). We aim at minimizing the transmit power while fullfiling a set of per-user Quality-of-Service (QoS) constraints…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-04 José P. González-Coma , Michael Joham , Paula M. Castro , Luis Castedo

In this paper, a downlink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF massive MIMO) system and a network clustering is considered. Closed form sum-rate expressions are derived for CF and the clustered CF (CLCF) networks where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-28 S. Mashdour , R. C. de Lamare