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In integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, pilot signals play a crucial role in enhancing sensing performance due to their strong autocorrelation properties and high transmission power. However, conventional interleaved pilots…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Ahmet Sacid Sumer , Ebubekir Memisoglu , Huseyin Arslan

We consider Internet of Things (IoT) organized on the principles of cell-free massive MIMO. Since the number of things is very large, orthogonal pilots cannot be assigned to all of them even if the things are stationary. This results in an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-19 Shilpa Rao , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

We study the uplink performance of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) when users are equipped with multiple antennas. To this end, we consider a generalized channel model that accounts for line-of-sight propagation and spatially…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Konstantinos Dovelos , Michail Matthaiou , Hien Quoc Ngo , Boris Bellalta

This paper focuses on the use of a deep learning approach to perform sum-rate-max and max-min power allocation in the uplink of a cell-free massive MIMO network. In particular, we train a deep neural network in order to learn the mapping…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Carmen D'Andrea , Alessio Zappone , Stefano Buzzi , Merouane Debbah

We consider the downlink of a cellular network with multiple cells and multi-antenna base stations, including a realistic distance-dependent pathloss model, clusters of cooperating cells, and general "fairness" requirements. Beyond Monte…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hoon Huh , Giuseppe Caire , Sung-Hyun Moon , Young-Tae Kim , Inkyu Lee

This letter analyzes the effects of power amplifiers (PAs) on the downlink of cell-free massive MIMO systems. We model signal transmission incorporating nonlinear PA distortion and derive a unified spectral efficiency (SE) expression…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

This paper studies a two-layer decoding method that mitigates inter-cell interference in multi-cell Massive MIMO systems. In layer one, each base station (BS) estimates the channels to intra-cell users and uses the estimates for local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Trinh Van Chien , Christopher Mollén , Emil Björnson

Considering a heterogeneous network (HetNet) where both macro base station (BS) and small cell (SC) nodes are equipped with massive antennas, this paper studies the performance for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlinks when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Yongyu Dai , Xiaodai Dong , Hai Lin

Integrating cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) into satellite-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks offers an effective solution for enhancing connectivity. In this setup, UAVs serve as access points (APs) of a terrestrial CF-mMIMO network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Thong-Nhat Tran , Giovanni Interdonato

In this paper, we consider device-to-device (D2D) communication that is underlaid in a multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system and propose a new framework for power control and pilot allocation. In this scheme, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Amin Ghazanfari , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

This paper addresses the joint transceiver design for downlink multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, with imperfect channel state information (CSI) at the base station (BS) and mobile stations (MSs). By incorporating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Tadilo Endeshaw Bogale , Batu Krishna Chalise , Luc Vandendorpe

In this letter, we introduce a novel pilot design approach that minimizes the total mean square errors of the minimum mean square error estimators of all base stations (BSs) subject to the transmit power constraints of individual users in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Hayder Al-Salihi , Trinh Van Chien , Tuan Anh Le , Mohammad Reza Nakhai

This paper seeks to determine the most efficient uplink technique for cell-free massive MIMO systems. Despite offering great advances, existing works suffer from fragmented methodologies and inconsistent assumptions (e.g., single- vs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

This paper considers a multiuser massive multiple-input multiple-output uplink with the help of an analog amplify-and-forward relay. The base station equips a large array of $N_d$ antennas but is supported by a far smaller number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Jindan Xu , Yucheng Wang , Wei Xu , Shi Jin , Hong Shen , Xiaohu You

In this work, we consider the downlink of a multi-cell multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system and find the jointly optimal number of base station (BS) antennas and transmission powers that minimize the power consumption while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Kamil Senel , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

In this paper, we investigate the uplink signal detection approaches in the cell-free massive MIMO systems with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serving as aerial access points (APs). The ground users are equipped with multiple antennas and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Xuesong Pan , Zhong Zheng , Xueqing Huang , Zesong Fei

This letter focuses on integrating rate-splitting multiple-access (RSMA) with time-division-duplex Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) for massive machine-type communications. Due to the large number of devices, their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Anup Mishra , Yijie Mao , Luca Sanguinetti , Bruno Clerckx

This paper presents an innovative movable antenna (MA)-enhanced multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink system. We aim to maximize the energy efficiency (EE) under statistical channel state information (S-CSI) through a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Xintai Chen , Biqian Feng , Yongpeng Wu , Xiang-Gen Xia , Chengshan Xiao

This paper considers a mobile edge computing-enabled cell-free massive MIMO wireless network. An optimization problem for the joint allocation of uplink powers and remote computational resources is formulated, aimed at minimizing the total…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi

This work focuses on the downlink communication of a multiuser MIMO system where the base station antennas and the users' receiving antennas are all active, but at each transmission, only a subset of the receive antennas is selected by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-21 Azucena Duarte , Raimundo Sampaio-Neto