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Ultra-densely deploying access points (APs) to support the increasing data traffic would significantly escalate the cell-edge problem resulting from traditional cellular networks. By removing the cell boundaries and coordinating all APs for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-04 Ouyang Zhou , Junyuan Wang , Fuqiang Liu , Jiangzhou Wang

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-aided cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CFmMIMO) has been considered as a promising technology to fulfill strict quality of service requirements for ultra-reliable low-latency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Baolin Chong , Hancheng Lu , Yuang Chen , Langtian Qin , Fengqian Guo

For real-time traffic, the link quality and call blocking probability (both derived from coverage probability) are realized to be poor for cell edge users (CEUs) compared to cell center users (CCUs) as the signal reception in the cell…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Praful D. Mankar , Goutam Das , S. S. Pathak

This study addresses the challenge of access point (AP) and user equipment (UE) association in cell-free massive MIMO networks. It introduces a deep learning algorithm leveraging Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory cells and a hybrid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Giovanni Di Gennaro , Amedeo Buonanno , Gianmarco Romano , Stefano Buzzi , Francesco A. N. Palmieri

The coupling between cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems operating at millimeter-wave (mmWave) carrier frequencies and user mobility is considered in this paper. First of all, a mmWave channel is introduced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Carmen D'Andrea , Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi

Recently, grant-free random access schemes have received significant attention in the scientific community as a solution for extremely low-latency massive communications in new industrial Internet-of-things (IIoT) and digital twins…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-26 Davide Dardari , Marina Lotti , Nicolò Decarli , Gianni Pasolini

Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) has been recognized as a promising multiple access technique for future wireless communication systems. Recent research demonstrates that RSMA can maintain its superiority without relying on Successive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Sibo Zhang , Bruno Clerckx , David Vargas

We study the problem of user-scheduling and resource allocation in distributed multi-user, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks implementing user-centric clustering and non-coherent transmission. We formulate a weighted sum-rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Hussein A. Ammar , Raviraj Adve , Shahram Shahbazpanahi , Gary Boudreau , Kothapalli Srinivas

This paper investigates the performance of downlink simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-assisted cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems, where user equipments…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Hien Quoc Ngo , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas

Semi-blind joint channel estimation and data detection (JCD) is a promising approach to mitigate pilot contamination in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-MaMIMO) networks. The effectiveness of such methods fundamentally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Christian Forsch , Laura Cottatellucci

The recent extra-large scale massive multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems are seen as a promising technology for providing very high data rates in increased user-density scenarios. Spatial non-stationarities and visibility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-21 José Carlos Marinello Filho , Glauber Brante , Richard Demo Souza , Taufik Abrão

In this paper, we investigate rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) aided mobile edge computing (MEC) in a cognitive radio network. We propose a RSMA scheme that enables the secondary user to offload tasks to the MEC server utilizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Hongwu Liu , Yinghui Ye , Zhiquan Bai , Kyeong Jin Kim , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) for multi-user downlink operates by splitting the message for each user equipment (UE) into a private message and a set of common messages, which are simultaneously transmitted by means of superposition…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Daesung Yu , Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Shlomo Shamai

Collision avoidance is one of the most promising applications for vehicular networks, dramatically improving the safety of the vehicles that support it. In this paper, we investigate how it can be extended to benefit vulnerable users, e.g.,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Marco Malinverno , Giuseppe Avino , Claudio Casetti , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini , Francesco Malandrino , Salvatore Scarpina

In this paper, a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted cell free massive MIMO (CFmMIMO) framework is designed to enhance physical layer security (PLS) and mitigate multi user (MU) interference in next generation wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Sumeyra Hassan , Bin Li , Yalcin Sadi , Erdal Panayirci , H. Vincent Poor

Cell-free wireless communication is envisioned as one of the most promising network architectures, which can achieve stable and uniform communication performance while improving the system energy and spectrum efficiency. The deployment of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Zhuoyin Dai , Jingran Xu , Xiaoli Xu , Ruoguang Li , Yong Zeng

As a critical component of beyond fifth-generation (B5G) and sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication systems, ultra-reliable low-latency communication (uRLLC) imposes stringent requirements on latency and reliability. In recent years,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Ziyang Zhang , Dongming Wang , Yunxiang Guo , Yang Cao , Xiaohu You

In this paper, we employ a user-centric (UC) cell-free massive MIMO (CFmMIMO) network for providing ultra reliable low latency communication (URLLC) when traditional ground users (GUs) coexist with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). We study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Mohamed Elwekeil , Alessio Zappone , Stefano Buzzi

In this paper, we study the energy-efficient user access control (UAC) based on resource allocation (RA) in heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs) with the required downlink data rate under non-ideal power amplifiers (PAs) and circuit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Yuhao Zhang , Qimei Cui , Ning Wang

WiFi's popularity has led to crowded scenarios composed of many Access Points (AP) and clients, often operating on overlapping channels, producing interference that gravely degrades performance. This misallocation of resources is often the…

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