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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

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are cellular networks where the base stations (BSs) are equipped with unconventionally many antennas. Such large antenna arrays offer huge spatial degrees-of-freedom for transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-20 Emil Björnson , Michail Matthaiou , Mérouane Debbah

In this letter, we propose a six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA)-aided cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system to fully exploit its macro spatial diversity, where a set of distributed access points (APs), each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Xiaoming Shi , Xiaodan Shao , Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are cellular networks where the base stations (BSs) are equipped with unconventionally many antennas, deployed on co-located or distributed arrays. Huge spatial degrees-of-freedom are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-30 Emil Björnson , Michail Matthaiou , Mérouane Debbah

This paper considers a mmWave cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) network composed of a large number of geographically distributed access points (APs) simultaneously serving multiple user equipments (UEs) via coherent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-03 Mahmoud Zaher , Emil Björnson , Marina Petrova

In this paper, we provide a theoretical framework for the study of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-enabled full-duplex (FD) cellular networks in which the self-interference (SI) channels follow the Rician distribution and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Arman Shojaeifard , Kai-Kit Wong , Marco Di Renzo , Gan Zheng , Khairi Ashour Hamdi , Jie Tang

The mobile data traffic has been exponentially growing during the last decades, which has been enabled by the densification of the network infrastructure in terms of increased cell density (i.e., ultra-dense network (UDN)) and/or increased…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Shuaifei Chen , Jiayi Zhang , Jing Zhang , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai

In a cell-free massive MIMO architecture a very large number of distributed access points simultaneously and jointly serves a much smaller number of mobile stations; a variant of the cell-free technique is the user-centric approach, wherein…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-28 Mario Alonzo , Stefano Buzzi , Alessio Zappone , Ciro D'Elia

The decoupling of data and control planes, as proposed for 5G networks, will enable the efficient implementation of multitier networks where user equipment (UE) nodes obtain coverage and connectivity through the top-tier macro-cells, and,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu , Giuseppe Caire , Ratheesh K. Mungara , Haralabos C. Papadopoulos , Chenwei Wang

Cell-free massive MIMO systems have promising data rate and uniform coverage gains. These systems, however, typically rely on optical fiber based fronthaul for the communication between the central processing unit (CPU) and the distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Umut Demirhan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO), which offers vast spatial degrees of freedom, has emerged as a potentially pivotal enabling technology for the sixth generation (6G) of wireless mobile networks. With its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Zhe Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Shuguang Cui , Bo Ai , Mérouane Debbah , Khaled B. Letaief , H. Vincent Poor

This paper describes a radio architecture for distributed spectrum sharing of multiple channels among secondary users (SUs) in a wide band of frequencies and a localized area. A novel Multichannel Immediate Multiple Access (MIMA) physical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Mingming Cai , J. Nicholas Laneman

Assume that a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system is designed from scratch to uniformly cover a given area with maximal energy efficiency (EE). What are the optimal number of antennas, active users, and transmit power?…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti , Jakob Hoydis , Mérouane Debbah

We consider a distributed multiple-input multiple-output (D-MIMO) testbed in which, to enable coherent-phase transmission without over-the-air synchronization, the remote radio heads (RRHs) are connected to a central unit via a 1-bit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Lise Aabel , Giuseppe Durisi , Frida Olofsson , Erik Börjeson , Mikael Coldrey , Christian Fager

A recently conducted indoor-to-outdoor measurement campaign for investigating the propagation characteristics of an $8 \times 8$ virtual multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) based wireless sensor network (WSN) is presented in this paper.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 I. Dey , M. Majid Butt , N. Marchetti

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

Cell-Free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are two promising technologies for application to beyond-5G networks. This paper considers Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Symeon Chatzinotas , Marco Di Renzo , Björn Ottersten

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

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

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) provides wireless connectivity for a large number of user equipments (UEs) using access points (APs) distributed across a wide area with high spectral efficiency (SE). The energy efficiency (EE) of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Thomas Choi , Masaaki Ito , Issei Kanno , Jorge Gomez-Ponce , Colton Bullard , Takeo Ohseki , Kosuke Yamazaki , Andreas F. Molisch