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Distributed or Cell-free (CF) massive Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (mMIMO), has been recently proposed as an answer to the limitations of the current network-centric systems in providing high-rate ubiquitous transmission. The capability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Salman Mohebi , Andrea Zanella , Michele Zorzi

To ensure coherent signal processing across distributed Access Points (APs) in Cell-Free Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (CF-mMIMO) systems, a fronthaul connection between the APs and a Central Processor (CP) is imperative. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Sangwon Jo , Hoon Lee , Seok-Hwan Park

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

Limited-backhaul cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), in which the fog radio access network (F-RAN) is implemented to exchange the information between access points (APs) and the central processing unit (CPU), is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Manijeh Bashar , Hien Quoc Ngo , Alister G. Burr , Dick Maryopi , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Erik G. Larsson

This paper investigates the performance of downlink simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-assisted cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems, where user equipments…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Hien Quoc Ngo , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas

Cell-free (CF) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems generally employ linear precoding techniques to mitigate the effects of multiuser interference. However, the power loss, efficiency, and precoding accuracy of linear precoders are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 A. Flores , R. C. de Lamare , K. V. Mishra

To improve the poor performance of distributed operation and non-scalability of centralized operation in traditional cell-free massive MIMO, we propose a cell-free distributed collaborative (CFDC) massive multiple-input multiple-output…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-30 Jiamin Li , Qijun Pan , Pengcheng Zhu , Dongming Wang , Xiaohu You

In a cell-free massive MIMO (CFmMIMO) network with a daisy-chain fronthaul, the amount of information that each access point (AP) needs to communicate with the next AP in the chain is determined by the location of the AP in the sequential…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Vida Ranjbar , Robbert Beerten , Marc Moonen , Sofie Pollin

In what ways could cellular massive MIMO be improved? This technology has already been shown to bring huge performance gains. However, coverage holes and difficulties to transmit multiple streams to multi-antenna users because of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Sara Willhammar , Hiroki Iimori , Joao Vieira , Lars Sundström , Fredrik Tufvesson , Erik G. Larsson

In this paper, we consider the power allocation problem for the downlink of the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We propose a new scheme by exploiting the water-filling algorithm in a cell with two zones. It is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Abdolrasoul Sakhaei Gharagezlou , Jafar Pourrostam , Mahdi Nangir , Mir Mahdi Safari

In this paper, a downlink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF massive MIMO) system and a network clustering is considered. Closed form sum-rate expressions are derived for CF and the clustered CF (CLCF) networks where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-28 S. Mashdour , R. C. de Lamare

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to user-centric association and feedback bit allocation for the downlink of a cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) system, operating under limited feedback constraints. In CF-mMIMO systems employing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Kwangjae Lee , Jung Hoon Lee , Wan Choi

In this work, we propose iterative access point (AP) selection (APS), linear minimum mean-square error (MMSE) precoding and power allocation techniques for Cell-Free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We consider the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-13 V. Palhares , A. R. Flores , R. C. de Lamare

Cell-free massive MIMO provides ubiquitous connectivity for multiple users, and implementation using radio stripes is very efficient. This paper proposes a parallel scheme for radio stripes to allow access point to do signal processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yihua Ma , Zhifeng Yuan , Guanghui Yu , Yijian Chen

In this paper, we investigate the performance of cell-free massive MIMO systems with massive connectivity. With the generalized approximate message passing (GAMP) algorithm, we obtain the minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) estimate of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Mangqing Guo , M. Cenk Gursoy

Smart factories need to support the simultaneous communication of multiple industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) devices with ultra-reliability and low-latency communication (URLLC). Meanwhile, short packet transmission for IIoT applications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Qihao Peng , Hong Ren , Cunhua Pan , Nan Liu , Maged Elkashlan

Massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) enables significant gains in spectral efficiency and link reliability compared to conventional small-scale MIMO technology. Furthermore, linear precoders, e.g., using zero forcing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Kaipeng Li , Charles Jeon , Joseph R. Cavallaro , Christoph Studer

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

Imagine a coverage area with many wireless access points that cooperate to jointly serve the users, instead of creating autonomous cells. Such a cell-free network operation can potentially resolve many of the interference issues that appear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising cellular network. In this network, a large number of distributed and multi-antenna access points (APs) jointly serve many single antenna users using the same…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-30 Deokhwan Han , Jeonghun Park , Namyoon Lee