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The recently commercialized fifth-generation (5G) wireless communication networks achieved many improvements, including air interface enhancement, spectrum expansion, and network intensification by several key technologies, such as massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Hengtao He , Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

In-band full-duplex (FD) operation is practically more suited for short-range communications such as WiFi and small-cell networks, due to its current practical limitations on the self-interference cancellation. In addition, cell-free…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Hieu V. Nguyen , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Octavia A. Dobre , Shree Krishna Sharma , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Oh-Soon Shin

In practical cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks with distributed and low-cost access points, the asynchronous arrival of signals at the user equipments increases multi-user interference that degrades the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Julian Cheng , Victor C. M. Leung , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

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

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) has emerged as a promising technology for next generation wireless systems, combining the benefits of distributed antenna systems (DAS) and traditional MIMO technology. In this work, we present the first…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Qi Zhen , Pan Tang , Haiyang Miao , Enrui Liu , Ximan Liu , Zihang Ding , Jianhua Zhang

Cell-Free (CF) Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MaMIMO) is considered one of the leading candidates for enabling next-generation wireless communication. With the growing interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), the Grant-Free (GF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zilu Zhao , Christian Forsch , Laura Cottatellucci , Dirk Slock

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) deployments are usually investigated with half-duplex nodes and high-capacity fronthaul links. To leverage the possible gains in throughput and energy efficiency (EE) of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-13 Soumyadeep Datta , Dheeraj Naidu Amudala , Ekant Sharma , Rohit Budhiraja , Shivendra S. Panwar

In this paper, we analyze the achievable downlink spectral efficiency of cell-free massive multiple input multiple output (CF-mMIMO) systems, accounting for the effects of channel aging (caused by user mobility) and pilot contamination. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Abhinav Anand , Chandra R. Murthy , Ribhu Chopra

Multiuser massive multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems can be used to meet high throughput requirements of 5G and beyond networks. In an uplink MUMIMO system, a base station is serving a large number of users, leading to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Alva Kosasih , Vincent Onasis , Wibowo Hardjawana , Vera Miloslavskaya , Victor Andrean , Jenq-Shiou Leuy , Branka Vucetic

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) deployments are usually investigated with half-duplex nodes and high-capacity fronthaul links. To leverage the possible gains in throughput and energy efficiency (EE) of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-11 Soumyadeep Datta , Ekant Sharma , Dheeraj Naidu Amudala , Rohit Budhiraja , Shivendra S. Panwar

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems represent a deeply investigated evolution from the conventional multicell co-located massive MIMO (MC-mMIMO) network deployments. Anticipating a gradual integration of CF-mMIMO systems alongside…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Li Wang , Ahmet Hasim Gokceoglu , Gunnar Peters

We investigate a turbo soft detector based on the expectation propagation (EP) algorithm for large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Optimal detection in MIMO systems becomes computationally unfeasible for high-order…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-11 Irene Santos , Juan José Murillo-Fuentes

We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-MaMIMO) communication system in the uplink transmission and propose a novel algorithm for blind or semi-blind joint channel estimation and data detection (JCD). We formulate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Alexander Karataev , Christian Forsch , Laura Cottatellucci

Cell-Free (CF) Massive MIMO (mMIMO) is a technology which can potentially augment not only the deployment of 5G, but also the deployment of beyond 5G (B5G) wireless networks. However, the cost for rolling out such systems may be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Ioannis Chiotis , Aris L. Moustakas

Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) provides great improvements in spectral efficiency over legacy cellular networks, by coherent combining of the signals over a large antenna array and by spatial multiplexing of many users. Since…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Emil Björnson , Jakob Hoydis , Luca Sanguinetti

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) has emerged as an alternative deployment for conventional cellular massive MIMO networks. Prior works relied on the strong assumption (quite idealized) that the APs are uniformly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Marco Di Renzo , Symeon Chatzinotas , John M. Senior

Standard cell-free (CF) multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) systems is a promising technology to cover the demands for higher data rates in fifth-generation (5G) networks and beyond. These systems assume a large number of distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Emil Björnson , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas , John M. Senior

Cell-free (CF) architecture and full-duplex (FD) communication are leading candidates for next-generation wireless networks. The CF framework removes cell boundaries in traditional cell-based systems, thereby mitigating inter-cell…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Diluka Galappaththige , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou , Chintha Tellambura

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) employs a large number of distributed access points (APs) to serve a small number of user equipments (UEs) via the same time/frequency resource. Due to the strong macro diversity gain,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Jiayi Zhang , Jing Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Shi Jin , Bo Ai

This paper investigates the combined benefits of full-duplex (FD) and cell-free massive multiple-input multipleoutput (CF-mMIMO), where a large number of distributed access points (APs) having FD capability simultaneously serve numerous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-10 Hieu V. Nguyen , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Octavia A. Dobre , Shree Krishna Sharma , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Oh-Soon Shin