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Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are expected to implement advanced cooperative communication techniques to let geographically distributed access points jointly serve user equipments. Building on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Bo Ai

In this paper, we propose network massive multiple- input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where three radio units (RUs) connected via one digital unit (DU) support multiple user equipments (UEs) at a cell-boundary through the same radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-20 Changwoo Lee , Chan-Byoung Chae , Taehyung Kim , Sooyong Choi , Juho Lee

Constrained by weak signal strength and significant inter-cell interference, users located at the cell edge in a cellular network suffer from inferior service quality. Recently, cell-free massive MIMO (CFmMIMO) has gained considerable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

We investigate a fronthaul-limited cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system and propose a hybrid centralized-distributed precoding strategy that dynamically adapts to varying fronthaul and spectral efficiency (SE)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Ardavan Rahimian , Anvar Tukmanov , David Townend , Michail Matthaiou , Simon L. Cotton

Integrating cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) with simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs) can provide ubiquitous connectivity and enhance coverage. This paper explores…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jun Qian , Ross Murch , Khaled B. Letaief

We investigate the physical layer (PHY) spectral efficiency and fronthaul network load of a scalable user-centric cell-free massive MIMO system. Each user-centric cluster processor responsible for cluster-level signal processing is located…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Fabian Göttsch , Max Franke , Arash Pourdamghani , Giuseppe Caire , Stefan Schmid

This paper is to design and optimize a non-orthogonal and noncoherent massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) framework towards enabling scalable ultra-reliable low-latency communications (sURLLC) in wireless systems beyond 5G. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 He Chen , Zheng Dong , Jian-Kang Zhang , Branka Vucetic

Remarkable research activities and major advances have been occurred over the past decade in multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems. Several transmission technologies and precoding techniques have been developed in order…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Eduardo Castañeda , Adão Silva , Atílio Gameiro , Marios Kountouris

Cell-Free Massive MIMO comprises a large number of distributed single-antenna access points (APs) serving a much smaller number of users. There is no partitioning into cells and each user is served by all APs. In this paper, the uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-13 Elina Nayebi , Alexei Ashikhmin , Thomas L. Marzetta , Bhaskar D. Rao

Cell-Free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are two promising technologies for application to beyond-5G networks. This paper considers Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Symeon Chatzinotas , Marco Di Renzo , Björn Ottersten

In this paper, we investigate cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems in which access points (APs) are equipped with fluid antennas (FAs) and develop a comprehensive framework for channel estimation, antenna port selection, and uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Maryam Olyaee , Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi

In this paper, we consider massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems for both downlink and uplink scenarios, where three radio units (RUs) connected via one digital unit (DU) support multiple user equipments (UEs) at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yeon-Geun Lim , Chan-Byoung Chae , Giuseppe Caire

Previous works on cell-free massive MIMO mostly consider physical-layer and fronthaul transport aspects. How to deploy cell-free massive MIMO functionality in a practical wireless system is an open problem. This paper proposes a new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Meysam Masoudi , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

We study the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) multicast transmission in cellular networks where each base station (BS) is equipped with a large-scale antenna array and transmits a common message using a single beamformer to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zhengzheng Xiang , Meixia Tao , Xiaodong Wang

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) systems are expected to provide faster and more robust connections to user equipments (UEs) by cooperation of a massive number of distributed access points, and to be one of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-05 Masaaki Ito , Issei Kanno , Takeo Ohseki , Kosuke Yamazaki , Yoji Kishi , Thomas Choi , Andreas F. Molisch

We present an overview of ongoing research endeavors focused on in-band full-duplex (IBFD) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems and their applications. In response to the unprecedented demands for mobile traffic in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Mohammadali Mohammadi , Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

In this paper, we study joint power control and scheduling in uplink massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with randomly arriving data traffic. We consider both co-located and Cell-Free (CF) Massive MIMO, where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Zheng Chen , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

While 5G networks are being rolled out, the definition of the potential 5G-Advanced features and the identification of disruptive technologies for 6G systems are being addressed by the scientific and academic communities to tackle the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Alessandro Guidotti , Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli , Carla Amatetti

We investigate the energy efficiency performance of cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), where the access points (APs) are connected to a central processing unit (CPU) via limited-capacity links. Thanks to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Manijeh Bashar , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Alister G. Burr , Hien Quoc Ngo , Erik G. Larsson , Pei Xiao

How would a cellular network designed for maximal energy efficiency look like? To answer this fundamental question, tools from stochastic geometry are used in this paper to model future cellular networks and obtain a new lower bound on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti , Marios Kountouris