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Federated learning (FL) has been considered as a promising learning framework for future machine learning systems due to its privacy preservation and communication efficiency. In beyond-5G/6G systems, it is likely to have multiple FL groups…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Tung T. Vu , Hien Quoc Ngo , Thomas L. Marzetta , Michail Matthaiou

In this paper, we consider the multi-user detection problem in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, where the number of receive antennas at the base station (BS) grows infinitely large. We propose a new performance metric, called…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-22 Ruichen Jiang , Ya-Feng Liu

Cell-Free Massive Multiple-input Multiple-output (mMIMO) consists of many access points (APs) in a coverage area that jointly serve the users. These systems can significantly reduce the interference among the users compared to conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Abbas Khalili , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

Pilot contamination is known to be one of the main impairments for massive MIMO multi-cell communications. Inspired by the concept of fractional frequency reuse and by recent contributions on pilot reutilization among non-adjacent cells, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Italo Atzeni , Jesús Arnau , Mérouane Debbah

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a potential key technology for fifth generation wireless communication networks. A mixed quality-of-service (QoS) problem is investigated in the uplink of a cell-free massive MIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-20 Manijeh Bashar , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Alister G. Burr , Hien Quoc Ngo , H. Vincent Poor

Multimode fibers (MMFs) offer a cost-effective connection solution for small and medium length networks. However, data rates through multimode fibers are traditionally limited by modal dispersion. Signal processing and Multiple-Input…

Optics · Physics 2011-10-06 Kumar Appaiah , Sagi Zisman , Sriram Vishwanath , Seth R. Bank

Recently, the so-called cell-free (CF) Massive MIMO architecture has been introduced, wherein a very large number of distributed access points (APs) simultaneously and jointly serve a much smaller number of mobile stations (MSs). The paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Alessio Zappone

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) provides a ubiquitous coverage to user equipments (UEs) but it is also susceptible to interference. Ratesplitting (RS) effectively extracts data by decoding interference, yet its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Octavia A. Dobre , Bo Ai

This paper proposes a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) architecture with joint list-based detection with soft interference cancelation (soft-IC) and access points (APs) selection. In particular, we derive a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-11 T. Ssettumba , L. T. N. Landau , R. C. de Lamare

In this paper, we investigate the impact of channel aging on the uplink performance of a cell-free~(CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) system with a minimum mean squared error (MMSE) receiver. To this end, we present a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Ribhu Chopra , Chandra R. Murthy , Anastasios K. Papazafeiropoulos

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

One of the most important challenges in the fifth generation (5G) of telecommunication systems is the efficiency of energy and spectrum. Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems have been proposed by researchers to resolve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Abdolrasoul Sakhaei Gharagezlou , Nima Imani , Mahdi Nangir

In this paper, we investigate the impact of channel aging on the performance of cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with both spatial correlation and pilot contamination. We derive novel closed-form uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai

In this letter, we analyze the performance of mixed coherent and non-coherent transmissions approach, which can improve the performance of cell-free multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CF mMIMO-OFDM)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Guoyu Li , Shaochuan Wu , Changsheng You , Wenbin Zhang , Guanyu Shang

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

This paper considers a cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) system using conjugate beamforming (CB) with fractional-exponent normalization. Assuming independent Rayleigh fading channels, a generalized closed-form expression for the achievable…

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

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

Pilot contamination is known to be one of the main bottlenecks for massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) networks. For moderately large antenna arrays (of importance to recent/emerging deployments) and correlated MIMO, pilot contamination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Nadisanka Rupasinghe , Yavuz Yapici , Jorge Iscar , Ismail Guvenc

Cache-aided MIMO communications aims to jointly exploit both coded caching~(CC) and spatial multiplexing gains to enhance communication efficiency. In this paper, we analyze both the achievable degrees of freedom~(DoF) under linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Mohammad NaseriTehrani , MohammadJavad Salehi , Antti Tölli

This paper addresses the power control design for a cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) system that performs integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). Specifically, the case where many access points are deployed to simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Sergi Liesegang , Stefano Buzzi