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We consider wireless networks of remote radio heads (RRH) with large antenna-arrays, operated in TDD, with uplink (UL) training and channel-reciprocity based downlink (DL) transmission. To achieve large area spectral efficiencies, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu , Chenwei Wang , Haralabos Papadopoulos , Giuseppe Caire

Pilot contamination, defined as the interference during the channel estimation process due to reusing the same pilot sequences in neighboring cells, can severely degrade the performance of massive multiple-input multiple-output systems. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-05 L. Srikar Muppirisetty , Themistoklis Charalambous , Johnny Karout , Gabor Fodor , Henk Wymeersch

In this work, we introduce the pattern-domain pilot design paradigm based on a "superposition of orthogonal-building-blocks" with significantly larger contention space to enhance the massive machine-type communications (mMTC) random access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xiaoming Dai , Tiantian Yan , Qianqian Li , Hua Li , Xiyuan Wang

We propose a pilot-data transmission overlay scheme for multipair massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relaying systems employing either half- or full-duplex (HD or FD) communications at the relay station (RS). In the proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Leyuan Pan , Yongyu Dai , Wei Xu , Xiaodai Dong

This paper introduces a hybrid pilot-aided channel estimation technique for mitigating the effect of pilot contamination for the uplink of multi-cell multiuser massive MIMO systems. The proposed hybrid pilot is designed such that it enjoys…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Jiaming Li , Chau Yuen , Dong Li , Han Zhang , Xianda Wu

This paper considers pilot design to mitigate pilot contamination and provide good service for everyone in multi-cell Massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems. Instead of modeling the pilot design as a combinatorial assignment…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

This paper proposes a flexible pilot assignment method to jointly optimize the uplink and downlink data transmission in multi-cell Massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems with correlated Rayleigh fading channels. By utilizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Tien Hoa Nguyen , Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Xuan Nam Tran , Emil Björnson

The pilot contamination in cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) must be addressed for accommodating a large number of users. In previous works, we have investigated a decontamination method called subspace projection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Noboru Osawa , Fabian Göttsch , Issei Kanno , Takeo Ohseki , Yoshiaki Amano , Kosuke Yamazaki , Giuseppe Caire

This paper presents a new approach to intra-cell pilot contamination in crowded massive MIMO scenarios. The approach relies on two essential properties of a massive MIMO system, namely near-orthogonality between user channels and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Jesper H. Sørensen , Elisabeth de Carvalho , Petar Popovski

We consider a multi-cell massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system with correlated Rayleigh fading channels, where pilot reuse is permitted within each cell (to reduce pilot overhead), and each base station (BS) utilizes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Masoud Elyasi , Azadeh Vosoughi

We propose a location-aware pilot allocation algorithm for a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network with high-mobility users, where the wireless channels are subject to Rician fading. Pilot allocation in massive MIMO is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Noman Akbar , Shihao Yan , Nan Yang , Jinhong Yuan

We address the problem of resource allocation (RA) in a cognitive radio (CR) communication system with multiple secondary operators sharing spectrum with an incumbent primary operator. The key challenge of the RA problem is the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-11 Ehsan Tohidi , David Gesbert , Philippe Ciblat

In user-centric cell-free multi-antenna systems, pilot contamination degrades spectral efficiency (SE) severely. To mitigate pilot contamination, existing works jointly optimize pilot assignment and power allocation by assuming fixed pilot…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Yao Peng , Tingting Liu , Chenyang Yang

This paper concerns with the sensor management problem in collocated Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radars. After deriving the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) as a performance measure, the antenna allocation problem is formulated as a…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-15 A. A. Gorji , R. Tharmarasa , W. D. Blair , T. Kirubarajan

The simultaneous transmission of numerous users presents substantial challenges due to the inherent trade-off between channel estimation and information transmission in multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Shuxiao Ye , Xianchao Zhang , Neng Ye

This paper proposes a dynamic access point (AP) selection and pilot power allocation (DAPPA) framework for uplink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CFmMIMO) systems, aiming to mitigate inter-user interference and improve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Saeed Mohammadzadeh , Rodrigo C. De Lamare , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Hien Quoc Ngo

Large-scale distributed antenna systems with many access points (APs) that serve the users by coherent joint transmission is being considered for 5G-and-beyond networks. The technology is called Cell-free Massive MIMO and can provide a more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Massive MIMO systems, where the base stations are equipped with hundreds of antenna elements, are an attractive way to attain unprecedented spectral efficiency in future wireless networks. In the "classical" massive MIMO setting, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Elisabeth de Carvalho , Emil Bjornson , Erik G. Larsson , Petar Popovski

Resource allocation is conceived for cell-free (CF) massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO)-aided ultra-reliable and low latency communication (URLLC) systems. Specifically, to support multiple devices with limited pilot overhead, pilot…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Qihao Peng , Hong Ren , Mianxiong Dong , Maged Elkashlan , Kai-Kit Wong , Lajos Hanzo

In this work, we present the design for both pilot-uncoupled and pilot-free on-off multiple access (ODMA) receivers in unsourced random access (URA) for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Unlike pilot-coupled ODMA, where on-off…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , Zaichen Zhang