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Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (CFmMIMO) offers uniform service quality through distributed access points (APs), yet unresolved issues remain. This paper proposes a heterogeneous system design that goes beyond the original…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising technology for next-generation communication systems. This work proposes a novel partially coherent (PC) transmission framework to cope with the challenge of phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Unnikrishnan Kunnath Ganesan , Tung Thanh Vu , Erik G. Larsson

We consider fairness scheduling in a user-centric cell-free massive MIMO network, where $L$ remote radio units, each with $M$ antennas, serve $K_{\rm tot} \approx LM$ user equipments (UEs). Recent results show that the maximum network sum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Fabian Göttsch , Noboru Osawa , Yoshiaki Amano , Issei Kanno , Kosuke Yamazaki , Giuseppe Caire

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

This paper considers an uplink cellular system, in which each base station (BS) is equipped with a large number of antennas to serve multiple single-antenna user equipments (UEs) simultaneously. Uplink training with pilot reusing is adopted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ning Liang , Wenyi zhang , Cong Shen

The impressive growth of wireless data networks has recently led to increased attention to the issue of electromagnetic pollution and the fulfillment of electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure limits. This paper tackles the problem of power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Sergi Liesegang , Stefano Buzzi

A cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system is considered for enhancing the monitoring performance of wireless surveillance, where a large number of distributed multi-antenna aided legitimate monitoring nodes (MNs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou , Lajos Hanzo

We consider Internet of Things (IoT) organized on the principles of cell-free massive MIMO. Since the number of things is very large, orthogonal pilots cannot be assigned to all of them even if the things are stationary. This results in an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-19 Shilpa Rao , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

The superior spectral efficiency (SE) and user fairness feature of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems are achieved by exploiting user clustering (UC) more efficiently. However, a random UC certainly results in a suboptimal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Quang Nhat Le , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Nam-Phong Nguyen , Symeon Chatzinotas , Octavia A. Dobre , Ruiqin Zhao

To guarantee the success of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), one of the main challenges to solve is the efficient management of pilot contamination. Allocation of fully orthogonal pilot sequences across the network would…

This paper optimizes the pilot assignment and pilot transmit powers to mitigate pilot contamination in Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems. While prior works have treated pilot assignment as a combinatorial problem, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

In multi-cell massive MIMO systems, channel estimation is deteriorated by pilot contamination and the effects of pilot contamination become more severe due to hardware impairments. In this paper, we propose a joint pilot design and channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-11 Byungju Lim , Won Joon Yun , Joongheon Kim , Young-Chai Ko

The simultaneous transmission of numerous users presents substantial challenges due to the inherent trade-off between channel estimation and information transmission in multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Shuxiao Ye , Xianchao Zhang , Neng Ye

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) has been the core of 5G due to its ability to improve spectral efficiency and spatial multiplexing significantly; however, cell-edge users still experience performance degradation due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

This paper proposes a novel optimization framework for enhancing the security resilience of cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) networks with multi-antenna access points (APs) and protective partial zero-forcing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Junbin Yu , Tianyu Lu , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Michail Matthaiou

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

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (massive MIMO) can provide large spectral and energy efficiency gains. Nevertheless, its potential is conditioned on acquiring accurate channel state information (CSI). In time division duplexing (TDD)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Salah Eddine Hajri , Mohamad Assaad

This letter proposes a multi-stream selection framework for \ac{CF-MIMO} networks. Partially coherent transmission has been considered by clustering \acp{AP} into phase-aligned clusters to address the challenges of phase misalignment and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Esra Aycan Beyazıt , Jeroen Famaey , Nina Slamnik-Kriještorac , Johann M. Marquez-Barja , Miguel Camelo Botero

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

A massive MIMO system, represented by a base station with hundreds of antennas, is capable of spatially multiplexing many devices and thus naturally suited to serve dense crowds of wireless devices in emerging applications, such as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Elisabeth de Carvalho , Emil Björnson , Jesper H. Sørensen , Erik G. Larsson , Petar Popovski