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Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, leveraging tight cooperation among wireless access points, exhibit remarkable signal enhancement and interference suppression capabilities, demonstrating significant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Peng Jiang , Jiafei Fu , Pengcheng Zhu , Yan Wang , Jiangzhou Wang , Xiaohu You

Massive access has been challenging for the fifth generation (5G) and beyond since the abundance of devices causes communication overload to skyrocket. In an uplink massive access scenario, device traffic is sporadic in any given coherence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Shanshan Zhang , Ying Cui , Wen Chen

This paper considers a cell-free massive multipleinput multiple-output (MIMO) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where distributed MIMO access points (APs) are used to jointly serve the communication users and detect the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Mohamed Elfiatoure , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

Limited-backhaul cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), in which the fog radio access network (F-RAN) is implemented to exchange the information between access points (APs) and the central processing unit (CPU), is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Manijeh Bashar , Hien Quoc Ngo , Alister G. Burr , Dick Maryopi , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Erik G. Larsson

In this letter, we consider the uplink of a cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network where each user is decoded by a subset of access points (APs). An additional step is introduced in the cell-free Massive MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Carmen D'Andrea , Erik G. Larsson

We study the performance of uplink transmission in a large-scale (massive) MIMO system, where all the transmitters have single antennas and the base station has a large number of antennas. Specifically, we first derive the rates that are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Songtao Lu , Zhengdao Wang

In this paper, we consider the uplink of cell-free massive MIMO systems, where a large number of distributed single antenna access points (APs) serve a much smaller number of users simultaneously via limited backhaul. For the first time, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Qinhui Huang , Alister Burr

We consider the uplink of a Massive MIMO network with $L$ cells, each comprising a BS with $M$ antennas and $K$ single-antenna user equipments. Recently, [1] studied the asymptotic spectral efficiency of such networks with optimal multicell…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Luca Sanguinetti , Emil Björnson , Abla Kammoun

To realize orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based grant-free access for wideband systems under frequency-selective fading, existing device activity detection and channel estimation methods need substantial accuracy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zhiyan Li , Ying Cui , Danny H. K. Tsang

This paper proposes a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) architecture with joint list-based detection with soft interference cancelation (soft-IC) and access points (APs) selection. In particular, we derive a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-11 T. Ssettumba , L. T. N. Landau , R. C. de Lamare

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

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

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

In this letter, we develop a continuous fluid antenna (FA) framework for uplink channel estimation in cell-free massive multiple-input and multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems. By modeling the wireless channel as a spatially correlated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Masoud Kaveh , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Francisco Hernando-Gallego , Diego Martin , Riku Jantti , Kai-Kit Wong

In this work, we analyze the downlink performance of a cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output system with finite capacity fronthaul links between the centralized baseband units and the access point (APs). Conditioned on the user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Priyabrata Parida , Harpreet S. Dhillon

We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system with joint unicast and multi-group multicast transmissions. We derive exact closed-form expressions for the downlink achievable spectral efficiency (SE) of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Mustafa S. Abbas , Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

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 consider a practical spatially correlated reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) system with multi-antenna access points (APs) over spatially correlated Rician fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Enyu Shi , Jiayi Zhang , Zhe Wang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

We consider the downlink of a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with \textcolor{red}{single}-antenna access points (APs) and single-antenna users. An iterative robust minimum mean-square error (RMMSE) precoder…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-21 V. M. T. Palhares , A. Flores , R. C. de Lamare

In a cell-free (CF) massive MIMO architecture a very large number of distributed access points (APs) simultaneously and jointly serves a much smaller number of mobile stations (MSs); a variant of the cell-free technique is the user-centric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Mario Alonzo , Stefano Buzzi