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This work focuses on the promising Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) and its beamforming design problem to achieve max-min fairness (MMF) among multiple co-channel multicast groups with imperfect channel state information at the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 Longfei Yin , Bruno Clerckx

Cell-free networks outperform cellular networks in many aspects, yet their efficiency is affected by imperfect channel state information (CSI). In order to address this issue, this work presents a robust resource allocation framework…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-20 S. Mashdour , A. Flores , R. C. de Lamare

Rate-Splitting (RS) has recently been shown to provide significant performance benefits in various multi-user transmission scenarios. In parallel, the huge degrees-of-freedom provided by the appealing massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Bruno Clerckx , Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

Cooperative rate splitting (CRS), built upon rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) and opportunistic user relaying, has been recognized as a promising transmission strategy to enhance the user fairness and spectral efficiency in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Kangchun Zhao , Yijie Mao , Zhaohui Yang , Lixiang Lian , Bruno Clerckx

The demand of massive access to the same multimedia content at the same time is one major challenge for next-generation cellular networks in densely-packed urban areas. The content-aware multicast transmission strategies provide promising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Ahmet Zahid Yalcin , Yavuz Yapici

Cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is a promising network architecture for beyond 5G systems, which can particularly offer more uniform data rates across the coverage area. Recent works have shown how reconfigurable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

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

Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) has appeared as a powerful transmission and multiple access strategy for multi-user multi-antenna communications. Uniquely, this paper studies the optimization of the sum-rate of RSMA with imperfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Jihye An , Onur Dizdar , Bruno Clerckx , Wonjae Shin

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

Rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are two prospective technologies for improving the spectral and energy efficiency in future wireless communication systems. In this work, we investigate a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Sadaf Syed , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

Rate Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) has recently emerged as a promising technique to enhance the transmission rate for multiple access networks. Unlike conventional multiple access schemes, RSMA requires splitting and transmitting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Nguyen Quang Hieu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato , Diep N. Nguyen , Dong In Kim , Abbas Jamalipour

This work encompasses Rate-Splitting (RS), providing significant benefits in multi-user settings in the context of huge degrees of freedom promised by massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO). However, the requirement of massive MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Bruno Clerckx , Tharm Ratnarajah

This paper introduces a robust resource allocation framework for the downlink of cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (CF-mMIMO) networks to address the effects caused by imperfect channel state information (CSI). In particular, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-11 S. Mashdour , A. R. Flores , S. Salehi , R. C. de Lamare , Anke Schmeink

Cell-free networks are regarded as a promising technology to meet higher rate requirements for beyond fifth-generation (5G) communications. Most works on cell-free networks focus on either fully centralized beamforming to maximally enhance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-27 Pengfei Ni , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Qian Liu

Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) is a promising technique for downlink multi-antenna communications owning to its capability of enhancing the system performance in a wide range of network loads, user deployments and channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Longfei Yin , Bruno Clerckx , Yijie Mao

To meet the unprecedented mobile traffic demands of future wireless networks, a paradigm shift from conventional cellular networks to distributed communication systems is imperative. Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Mohammadali Mohammadi , Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

Dual-Functional Radar-Communication (DFRC) system is an essential and promising technique for beyond 5G. In this work, we propose a powerful and unified multi-antenna DFRC transmission framework, where an additional radar sequence is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-15 Chengcheng Xu , Bruno Clerckx , Shiwa Chen , Yijie Mao , Jianyun Zhang

Cell-free massive MIMO and symbiotic radio communication have been recently proposed as the promising beyond fifth-generation (B5G) networking architecture and transmission technology, respectively. To reap the benefits of both, this paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-18 Zhuoyin Dai , Ruoguang Li , Jingran Xu , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin

We consider a two-way half-duplex decode-and-forward (DF) relaying system with multiple pairs of single-antenna users assisted by a cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) architecture with multiple-antenna access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Anastasios K. Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas , John M. Senior

In this paper, we employ Cooperative Rate-Splitting (CRS) technique to enhance the Secrecy Sum Rate (SSR) for the Multiple Input Single Output (MISO) Broadcast Channel (BC), consisting of two legitimate users and one eavesdropper, with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-05 Ping Li , Ming Chen , Yijie Mao , Zhaohui Yang , Bruno Clerckx , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei