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In this paper, we focus on one of the key technologies for the fifth-generation wireless communication networks, massive multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO), by investigating two of its most relevant architectures: 1) to provide in-band…

This paper introduces an access point-user (AP-UE) association strategy combined with pilot power allocation to mitigate multiuser interference and enhance spectral efficiency (SE) in clustered cell-free massive MIMO (CCF-mMIMO) networks.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 S. Mohammadzadeh , S. Mashdour , R. C. de Lamare , K. Cumanan , C. Li

Cell-free massive MIMO systems have promising data rate and uniform coverage gains. These systems, however, typically rely on optical fiber based fronthaul for the communication between the central processing unit (CPU) and the distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Umut Demirhan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) has been the core of 5G due to its ability to improve spectral efficiency and spatial multiplexing significantly; however, cell-edge users still experience performance degradation due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

This letter presents and analyzes orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)-based multi-carrier transmission for cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (CFmMIMO) over frequency-selective fading channels. Frequency-domain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

A large-scale distributed antenna system that serves the users by coherent joint transmission is called Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple input multiple output). For a given user set, only a subset of the access points (APs) is likely needed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

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

Due to its communication efficiency and privacy-preserving capability, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising framework for machine learning in 5G-and-beyond wireless networks. Of great interest is the design and optimization of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Tung T. Vu , Duy T. Ngo , Hien Quoc Ngo , Minh N. Dao , Nguyen H. Tran , Richard H. Middleton

In what ways could cellular massive MIMO be improved? This technology has already been shown to bring huge performance gains. However, coverage holes and difficulties to transmit multiple streams to multi-antenna users because of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Sara Willhammar , Hiroki Iimori , Joao Vieira , Lars Sundström , Fredrik Tufvesson , Erik G. Larsson

Device density in cellular networks is expected to increase considerably in the next future. Accordingly, the access point (AP) will equip massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) antennas, using collimated millimeter-wave (mmW) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Reza Aghazadeh Ayoubi , Umberto Spagnolini

This paper investigates uplink multiple access for the coexistence of enhanced mobile broadband+ (eMBB+) and massive machine-type communications+ (mMTC+) in terminal-centric cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems. We propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Sergi Liesegang , Lou Salaün , Chung Shue Chen , Stefano Buzzi

The trend toward using increasingly large arrays of antenna elements continues. However, fitting more antennas into the limited space available on user equipment (UE) within the currently popular Frequency Range 1 spectrum presents a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Chao-Kai Wen , Yen-Cheng Chan , Tzu-Hao Huang , Hao-Jun Zeng , Fu-Kang Wang , Lung-Sheng Tsai , Pei-Kai Liao

Ultra-dense network (UDN) has been considered as a promising candidate for future 5G network to meet the explosive data demand. To realize UDN, a reliable, Gigahertz bandwidth, and cost-effective backhaul connecting ultra-dense small-cell…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zhen Gao , Linglong Dai , De Mi , Zhaocheng Wang , Muhammad Ali Imran , Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir

Cell-free Massive MIMO has emerged as a promising solution for next-generation radio networks. Particularly the user-centric variant where users are served by a limited subset of access points, a so-called cluster, has garnered significant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Robbert Beerten , Vida Ranjbar , Andrea P. Guevara , Sofie Pollin

Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (CF-mMIMO) systems have emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation wireless communications, offering enhanced spectral efficiency and coverage through distributed antenna arrays. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Mengzhen Liu , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Qian Liu

We propose to operate massive multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) cellular base stations (BSs) in unlicensed bands. We denote such system as massive MIMO unlicensed (mMIMO-U). We design the key procedures required at a cellular BS to…

Cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is expected to be one of the key technologies in sixth-generation (6G) and beyond wireless communications, offering enhanced spectral efficiency for cell-edge user equipments by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Salih Gümüsbuğa , Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tuğfe Demir

The cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (CF-mMIMO) is a promising technology for the six generation (6G) communication systems. Channel prediction will play an important role in obtaining the accurate CSI to improve the performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Yongning Qi , Tao Zhou , Zuowei Xiang , Liu Liu , Bo Ai

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) is expected to provide reliable wireless services for a large number of user equipments (UEs) using access points (APs) distributed across a wide area. When the UEs are battery-powered, uplink energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Thomas Choi , Masaaki Ito , Issei Kanno , Takeo Oseki , Kosuke Yamazaki , Andreas F. Molisch

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising approach for next-generation wireless networks, enabling scalable deployments of multiple small access points (APs) to enhance coverage and service for multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Georgios Mylonopoulos , Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi , Pei Liu