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Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) systems are characterized by having many more access points (APs) than user equipments (UEs). A key challenge is to determine which APs should serve which UEs. Previous work has…
The physical layer foundations of cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) have been well-established. As a next step, researchers are investigating practical and energy-efficient network implementations. This paper focuses on multiple sets of…
Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CFmMIMO) coordinates a great number of distributed access points (APs) with central processing units (CPUs), effectively reducing interference and ensuring uniform service quality for user…
Cell-free Massive MIMO is considered as a promising technology for satisfying the increasing number of users and high rate expectations in beyond-5G networks. The key idea is to let many distributed access points (APs) communicate with all…
In the cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) system, the centralized transmission scheme is widely adopted to manage the inter-user interference. Unfortunately, its implementation is limited by the extensive signaling…
We exploit a general cluster-based network architecture for a fronthaul-limited user-centric cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system under different degrees of cooperation among the access points (APs) to achieve…
Motivated by the ever-growing demand for \emph{green} wireless communications and the advantages of \emph{cell-free} (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, we focus on the design of their downlink for optimal…
Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) deployments are usually investigated with half-duplex nodes and high-capacity fronthaul links. To leverage the possible gains in throughput and energy efficiency (EE) of…
Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) deployments are usually investigated with half-duplex nodes and high-capacity fronthaul links. To leverage the possible gains in throughput and energy efficiency (EE) of…
Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) has emerged as a prominent candidate for future networks due to its ability to significantly enhance spectral efficiency by eliminating inter-cell interference. However, its…
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…
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…
We consider fronthaul-limited generalized zeroforcing-based cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems with multiple-antenna users and multipleantenna access points (APs) relying on both cooperative beamforming (CB)…
A large-scale distributed antenna system that serves the users by coherent joint transmission is called Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple input multiple output). For a given user set, only a subset of the access points (APs) is likely needed…
A Cell-Free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system comprises a very large number of distributed access points (APs)which simultaneously serve a much smaller number of users over the same time/frequency resources based on…
We study an uplink scenario of a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system with limited capacity fronthaul links (LC-FHLs) connecting each access point (AP) to the central unit (CU), where user equipments and APs…
We investigate the energy efficiency performance of cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), where the access points (APs) are connected to a central processing unit (CPU) via limited-capacity links. Thanks to the…
Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) systems are expected to provide faster and more robust connections to user equipments (UEs) by cooperation of a massive number of distributed access points, and to be one of the…
The emerging cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) is a promising scheme to tackle the capacity crunch in wireless networks. Designing the optimal fronthaul network in the CF-mMIMIO is of utmost importance to deploy a…
We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system with joint unicast and multi-group multicast transmissions. We derive exact closed-form expressions for the downlink achievable spectral efficiency (SE) of…