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Random access is necessary in crowded scenarios due to the limitation of pilot sequences and the intermittent pattern of device activity. Nowadays, most of the related works are based on independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-19 Junyuan Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Fan Wei

In this paper we consider a time-division duplex cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where many distributed access points (APs) simultaneously serve many users. A normalized conjugate beamforming scheme, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Giovanni Interdonato , Hien Quoc Ngo , Erik G. Larsson , Pål Frenger

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) implemented in virtualized cloud radio access networks (V-CRAN) has emerged as a promising architecture to enhance spectral efficiency (SE), network flexibility, and energy efficiency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Derya Nurcan-Atceken , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Aysegul Altin-Kayhan , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar , Bulent Tavli

Integrating coded caching (CC) into multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications can significantly enhance the achievable degrees of freedom (DoF) in wireless networks. This paper investigates a practical cache-aided asymmetric MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Mohammad NaseriTehrani , MohammadJavad Salehi , Antti Tölli

Cell-free Massive MIMO systems consist of a large number of geographically distributed access points (APs) that serve users by coherent joint transmission. Downlink power allocation is important in these systems, to determine which APs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Sucharita Chakraborty , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

This paper considers a single-cell massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system with dual-polarized antennas at both the base station and users. We study a channel model that includes the key practical aspects that arise when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Özgecan Özdogan , Emil Björnson

This paper proposes a new power control and pilot allocation scheme for device-to-device (D2D) communication underlaying a multi-cell massive MIMO system. In this scheme, the cellular users in each cell get orthogonal pilots which are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Amin Ghazanfari , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Maintaining high energy efficiency (EE) in wireless networks is crucial, particularly with the adoption of massive MIMO technology. This work introduces a resource allocation framework that jointly optimizes transmit power assigned to each…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Siddarth Marwaha , Pawel Kryszkiewicz , Eduard Jorswieck

Cell-Free massive MIMO networks provide huge power gains and resolve inter-cell interference by coherent processing over a massive number of distributed instead of co-located antennas in access points (APs). Cost-efficient hardware is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Yibo Wu , Luca Sanguinetti , Ulf Gustavsson , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Henk Wymeersch

Cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) ensures ubiquitous communication at high spectral efficiency (SE) thanks to increased macro-diversity as compared cellular communications. However, system scalability and performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Giovanni Interdonato , Marcus Karlsson , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

In this paper, we consider a downlink (DL) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, where different users have different mobility profiles. To support this system, we propose to use a hybrid orthogonal time frequency space…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Ruoxi Chong , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Simon L. Cotton , Michail Matthaiou

This paper proposes a flexible pilot assignment method to jointly optimize the uplink and downlink data transmission in multi-cell Massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems with correlated Rayleigh fading channels. By utilizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Tien Hoa Nguyen , Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Xuan Nam Tran , Emil Björnson

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising approach for next-generation wireless networks, enabling scalable deployments of multiple small access points (APs) to enhance coverage and service for multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Georgios Mylonopoulos , Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi , Pei Liu

This paper concerns the feasibility of full-duplex large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) cellular systems. We first propose a pilot transmission scheme and assess its performance, specifically the ergodic sum-rate. The proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Jeongwan Koh , Yeon-Geun Lim , Chan-Byoung Chae , Joonhyuk Kang

We investigate the integration of stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) into cell-free massive multiple input multiple output (CF-mMIMO) system to enhance the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) performance.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Thien Duc Hua , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

We study internet of things (IoT) systems supported by cell-free (CF) massive MIMO (mMIMO) with optimal linear channel estimation. For the uplink, we consider optimal linear MIMO receiver and obtain an uplink SINR approximation involving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Hangsong Yan , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

This paper studies the security aspect of a recently introduced network ("cell-free massive MIMO") under a pilot spoofing attack. Firstly, a simple method to recognize the presence of this type of an active eavesdropping attack to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Tiep M. Hoang , Hien Quoc Ngo , Trung Q. Duong , Hoang D. Tuan , Alan Marshall

In cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output systems, downlink power control is essential to ensure uniformly high service quality across users. Existing methods range from centralized iterative approaches requiring global channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Giovanni Di Gennaro , Amedeo Buonanno , Gianmarco Romano , Francesco Verde , Stefano Buzzi , Francesco A. N. Palmieri

In this paper, we propose a relative channel estimation error (RCEE) metric, and derive closed-form expressions for its expectation $\rm {Exp}_{rcee}$ and the achievable uplink rate holding for any number of base station antennas $M$, with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Pei Liu , Shi Jin , Tao Jiang , Qi Zhang , Michail Matthaiou

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