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In this paper, an analytical framework for evaluating the performance of scalable cell-free massive MIMO (SCF-mMIMO) systems in which all user equipments (UEs) and access points (APs) employ finite resolution digital-to-analog converters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Xiangjun Ma , Xianfu Lei , P. Takis Mathiopoulos , Kai Yu , Xiaohu Tang

A continuous goal in all communication systems is to enhance the users experience and provide them with the highest possible data rates. Recently, the concept of cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems has been considered to enhance the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Ahmed Almehdhar , Mohanad Obeed , Anas Chaaban , Salam A. Zummo

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

In this paper, we investigate a cell-free massive MIMO system with both access points and user equipments equipped with multiple antennas over the Weichselberger Rayleigh fading channel. We study the uplink spectral efficiency (SE) based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Zhe Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Hien Quoc Ngo , Bo Ai , Mérouane Debbah

In this paper, we investigate the uplink performance of cell-free (CF) extremely large-scale multiple-input-multipleoutput (XL-MIMO) systems, which is a promising technique for future wireless communications. More specifically, we consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Hao Lei , Zhe Wang , Huahua Xiao , Jiayi Zhang , Bo Ai

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-M-MIMO) systems represent an evolution of the classical cellular architecture that has dominated the mobile landscape for decades. In CF-M-MIMO, a central processing unit (CPU) controls a multitude of access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-27 Felip Riera-Palou , Guillem Femenias

Recently, the so-called cell-free (CF) 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). The paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Alessio Zappone

In traditional cellular networks, users at the cell edge often suffer from poor quality of service (QoS) due to large distance-dependent path loss and severe inter-cell interference. While cell-free (CF) massive multi-input multi-out (MIMO)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

Cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) ensures ubiquitous communication at high spectral efficiency (SE) thanks to increased macro-diversity as compared cellular communications. However, system scalability and performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Giovanni Interdonato , Marcus Karlsson , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

This paper proposes an iterative detection and decoding (IDD) scheme for a cell free massive multiple input multiple output (CF-mMIMO) system. Users send coded data to the access points (APs), which is jointly detected at central processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-25 T. Ssettumba , R. Di Renna , L. Landau , R. C. de Lamare

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

This paper compares two important downlink multicell interference mitigation techniques, namely, large-scale (LS) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and network MIMO. We consider a cooperative wireless cellular system operating in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Kianoush Hosseini , Wei Yu , Raviraj S. Adve

In this paper, we investigate the impact of channel aging on the performance of cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with both spatial correlation and pilot contamination. We derive novel closed-form uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai

Cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output is considered a promising technology for the next generation of wireless communication networks. The main idea is to distribute a large number of access points (APs) in a geographical region…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Andreas Angelou , Pourya Behmandpoor , Marc Moonen

This letter develops an optimum beamforming method for downlink transmissions in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, which employ a massive number of distributed access points to provide concurrent services to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Andong Zhou , Jingxian Wu , Erik G. Larsson , Pingzhi Fan

We consider large-scale fading precoding (LSFP), which is a two-layer precoding scheme in the downlink of multi-cell massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems to suppress inter-cell interference. We obtain the closed-form…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

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

In this paper, we propose a novel method for efficient implementation of a massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (massive MIMO) system with Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) operation. Our main objective is to reduce the large overhead…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Xinping Yi , Giuseppe Caire

This paper considers a single-cell massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system with dual-polarized antennas at both the base station and users. We study a channel model that includes the key practical aspects that arise when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Özgecan Özdogan , Emil Björnson

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF mMIMO) is a promising next generation wireless architecture to realize federated learning (FL). However, sensitive information of user equipments (UEs) may be exposed to the involved access points or the central…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Jiayi Zhang , Jing Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai