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This two-part paper aims to quantify the cost of device activity detection in an uplink massive connectivity scenario with a large number of devices but device activities are sporadic. Part I of this paper shows that in an asymptotic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Liang Liu , Wei Yu

This letter presents a comprehensive framework analyzing the asymptotic error performance of a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) wireless system employing spatial modulation (SM) with maximum likelihood detection and perfect channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-02 Kostas P. Peppas , Martin Zamkotsian , Fotis Lazarakis , Panayotis G. Cottis

Efficient signal detectors are rather important yet challenging to achieve satisfactory performance for large-scale communication systems. This paper considers a non-orthogonal sparse code multiple access (SCMA) configuration for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Yao Ge , Lei Liu , Shunqi Huang , David González G. , Yong Liang Guan , Zhi Ding

In this paper, we adapt to cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) the finite-blocklength framework introduced by \"Ostman et al. (2020) for the characterization of the packet error probability achievable with Massive MIMO,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Alejandro Lancho , Giuseppe Durisi , Luca Sanguinetti

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

We consider transmission of system information in a cell-free massive MIMO system, when the transmitting access points do not have any channel state information and the receiving terminal has to estimate the channel based on downlink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Marcus Karlsson , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

A cell-free network merged with active reconfigurable reflecting surfaces (RIS) is investigated in this paper. Based on the imperfect channel state information (CSI), the aggregated channel from the user to the access point (AP) is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-23 Mahdi Eskandari , Huiling Zhu , Jiangzhou Wang

In this paper, we consider the uplink channel estimation phase and downlink data transmission phase of cell-free millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with low-capacity fronthaul links and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-01 In-soo Kim , Mehdi Bennis , Junil Choi

This paper focuses on energy savings in downlink operation of cell-free massive MIMO (CF mMIMO) networks under dynamic traffic conditions. We propose a multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL) algorithm that enables each access point…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Qichen Wang , Keyu Li , Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tugfe Demir , Mustafa Ozger , Cicek Cavdar

This paper investigates pilot assignment and access point (AP) selection strategies for uplink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems. We propose channel similarity-aware pilot assignment (CAPA) and AP selection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Saeed Mohammadzadeh , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Pei Liu , Hien Quoc Ngo

In this paper, we study the problem of user activity detection and large-scale fading coefficient estimation in a random access wireless uplink with a massive MIMO base station with a large number $M$ of antennas and a large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Alexander Fengler , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

We consider a two-way half-duplex decode-and-forward (DF) relaying system with multiple pairs of single-antenna users assisted by a cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) architecture with multiple-antenna access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Anastasios K. Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas , John M. Senior

Cellular communication is a widely used technology in the world where the coverage area is divided into multiple cells. Interference is one of the most important challenges in cellular networks which causes problems by reducing the quality…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Marzieh Arasteh , Narges Yarahmadi Gharaei , Mehrdad Ardebilipour

This paper investigates a cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system that addresses the critical challenge of information leakage to potential eavesdroppers located within…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Ruiguang Wang , Takumi Takahashi , Hideki Ochiai

Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems aim to expand the coverage area of wireless networks by replacing a single high-performance Access Point (AP) with multiple small, distributed APs connected to a Central Processing Unit (CPU) through a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Michail Gkagkos , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Costas N. Georghiades , Krishna R. Narayanan

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

With the evolution of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology toward extremely large (XL) MIMO systems comprising hundreds of, or more, antennas, this work investigates scalable and fronthaul-efficient reception design for the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Dogon Kim , Hyunmin Noh , Seok-Hwan Park

Cell-free massive MIMO provides ubiquitous connectivity for multiple users, and implementation using radio stripes is very efficient. Compared with collocated massive MIMO, the major cost includes fronthaul overheads and AP hardware.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Zhifeng Yuan , Yihua Ma , Guanghui Yu

We study secure communications in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems with multi-antenna access points (APs) and protective partial zero-forcing (PPZF) precoding. In particular, we consider an active…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Yasseen Sadoon Atiya , Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

A great amount of endeavor has recently been devoted to activity detection for massive machine-type communications in cell-free massive MIMO. However, in practice, as the number of antennas at the access points (APs) increases, the Rayleigh…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Jingreng Lei , Yang Li , Zeyi Ren , Qingfeng Lin , Ziyue Wang , Ya-Feng Liu , Yik-Chung Wu