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The sixth generation (6G) industrial Sub-networks (SNs) face several challenges in meeting extreme latency and reliability requirements in the order of 0.1-1 ms and 99.999 -to-99.99999 percentile, respectively. Interference management (IM)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Pramesh Gautam , Ravi Sharan Bhagavathula , Paolo Baracca , Carsten Bockelmann , Thorsten Wild , Armin Dekorsy

This work revisits a recently proposed precoding design for massive multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) systems that is based on the use of an instantaneous total power constraint. The main advantages of this technique lie in its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Houssem Sifaou , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Cell-Free (CF) Massive MIMO is an alternative topology for future wireless networks, where a large number of single-antenna access points (APs) are distributed over the coverage area. There are no cells but all users are jointly served by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Zheng Chen , Emil Björnson

This paper takes a new look at Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) through the lens of the dynamic cooperation cluster framework from the Network MIMO literature. The purpose is to identify and address scalability issues…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

We propose analytical models for the interference power distribution in a cellular system employing MIMO beamforming in rich and limited scattering environments, which capture non line-of-sight signal propagation in the microwave and mmWave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Hussain Elkotby , Mai Vu

In this paper, the effects of interference on composite fading environments, where multipath fading coexists with shadowing, are investigated. Based on some mathematical convenient expressions for the sum of squared…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Petros S. Bithas , Athanasios A. Rontogiannis

This paper investigates multi-target detection in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system within a cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) framework. We adopt a user-centric approach for communication user equipments (UEs) and a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Zinat Behdad , Ozlem Tugfe Demir , Ki Won Sung , Cicek Cavdar

Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) has recently gained much attention for its potential in shaping the landscape of sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems. This paper proposes a hierarchical network architecture tailored for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

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 massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) has emerged as a promising paradigm for delivering uniformly high-quality coverage in future wireless networks. To address the inherent challenges of precoding in such distributed systems, recent studies…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Tianzheng Miao , Thomas Feys , Gilles Callebaut , Jarne Van Mulders , Emanuele Peschiera , Md Arifur Rahman , François Rottenberg

In future sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks, the Internet-of-Everything (IoE) is expected to provide extremely massive connectivity for small battery-powered devices. Indeed, massive devices with limited energy storage capacity impose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Enyu Shi , Jiayi Zhang , Shuaifei Chen , Jiakang Zheng , Yan Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

This paper proposes the utilization of cell-free massive MIMO (CF-M-MIMO) processing on top of the regular micro/macrocellular deployments typically found in current 5G networks. Towards this end, it contemplates the connection of all base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-13 F. Riera-Palou , G. Femenias , D. López-Pérez , N. Piovesan , A. De Domenico

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is expected to be a vital component in future 5G systems. As such, there is a need for new modeling in order to investigate the performance of massive MIMO not only at the physical layer, but…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-13 Emma Fitzgerald , Michał Pióro , Fredrik Tufvesson

Sharing global channel information at base stations (BSs) is commonly assumed for downlink multi-cell precoding. In the context of massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems where each BS is equipped with a large number of antennas,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Liangbin Li , Alexei Ashikhmin , Thomas Marzetta

We consider a multi-cell massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system with correlated Rayleigh fading channels, where pilot reuse is permitted within each cell (to reduce pilot overhead), and each base station (BS) utilizes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Masoud Elyasi , Azadeh Vosoughi

In this paper, we investigate the system performance of a multi-cell multi-user (MU) hybrid millimeter wave (mmWave) communications in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network. Due to the reuse of pilot symbols among different cells,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Lou Zhao , Zhiqiang Wei , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan , Mark C. Reed

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) mmWave devices broadcast multiple spatially-separated data streams simultaneously in order to increase data transfer rates. Data transfer can, however, be compromised by interference. Conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-21 Joshua C. Lederman , Weipeng Zhang , Thomas Ferreira de Lima , Eric C. Blow , Simon Bilodeau , Bhavin J. Shastri , Paul R. Prucnal

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

Phase noise (PN) is a major disturbance in MIMO systems, where the contribution of different oscillators at the transmitter and the receiver side may degrade the overall performance and offset the gains offered by MIMO techniques. This is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Alberto Tarable , Francisco J. Escribano

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications have been postulated as one of the most disruptive technologies for future 5G systems. Among mmWave bands the 60-GHz radio technology is specially suited for ultradense small cells and mobile data…

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