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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

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

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) offers significant advantages in mobility scenarios, mainly due to the elimination of cell boundaries and strong macro diversity. In this paper, we examine the downlink performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Ziheng Liu , Jiayi Zhang , Yiyang Zhu , Enyu Shi , Bo Ai

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

We investigate the optimal power allocation and optimal precoding for a cluster of two BSs which cooperate to jointly maximize the achievable rate for two users connecting to each BS in a MCP framework. This framework is modeled by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Samah A. M. Ghanem

This paper considers a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system that consists of a large number of geographically distributed access points (APs) serving multiple users via coherent joint transmission. The downlink…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-15 Mahmoud Zaher , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Marina Petrova

Cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is expected to be one of the key technologies in sixth-generation (6G) and beyond wireless communications, offering enhanced spectral efficiency for cell-edge user equipments by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Salih Gümüsbuğa , Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tuğfe Demir

Power allocation is an important task in wireless communication networks. Classical optimization algorithms and deep learning methods, while effective in small and static scenarios, become either computationally demanding or unsuitable for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Irched Chafaa , Giacomo Bacci , Luca Sanguinetti

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems represent a deeply investigated evolution from the conventional multicell co-located massive MIMO (MC-mMIMO) network deployments. Anticipating a gradual integration of CF-mMIMO systems alongside…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Li Wang , Ahmet Hasim Gokceoglu , Gunnar Peters

We investigate the optimal power allocation and optimal precoding for a multi-cell-processing (MCP) framework with limited cooperation. In particular, we consider two base stations(BSs) which maximize the achievable rate for two users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Samah A. M. Ghanem

We present a general framework for the characterization of the packet error probability achievable in cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) architectures deployed to support ultra-reliable low-latency (URLLC) traffic. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Alejandro Lancho , Giuseppe Durisi , Luca Sanguinetti

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 (CF) Massive multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO) is a distributed antenna system, wherein a large number of back-haul linked access points randomly distributed over a coverage area serve simultaneously a smaller number of users.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Salah Eddine Hajri , Juwendo Denis , Mohamad Assaad

This paper investigates the sum-rate gains brought by power allocation strategies in multicell massive multipleinput multiple-output systems, assuming time-division duplex transmission. For both uplink and downlink, we derive tractable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Qi Zhang , Shi Jin , Matthew McKay , David Morales-Jimenez , Hongbo Zhu

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a key technology for next-generation wireless systems. The integration of cell-free massive MIMO within the open radio access network (O-RAN) architecture addresses the growing need…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Mohammad Hossein Shokouhi , Vincent W. S. Wong

In this paper, we consider linear MIMO transceiver design for a cellular two-way amplify-and-forward relaying system consisting of a single multi-antenna base station, a single multi-antenna relay station, and multiple multi-antenna mobile…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Eddy Chiu , Vincent K. N. Lau

This paper takes a new look at Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) through the lens of the dynamic cooperation cluster framework from the Network MIMO literature. The purpose is to identify and address scalability issues…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

In this paper, we propose a novel joint caching and massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission scheme, referred to as cache-aided massive MIMO, for advanced downlink cellular communications. In addition to reaping the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-25 Xiao Wei , Lin Xiang , Laura Cottatellucci , Tao Jiang , Robert Schober

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

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) systems serve the user equipments (UEs) by geographically distributed access points (APs) by means of joint transmission and reception. To limit the power consumption due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Shuaifei Chen , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Bo Ai