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Cell-free widely distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems utilize radio units spread out over a large geographical area. The radio signal of a user equipment (UE) is coherently detected by a subset of radio units…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 David Löschenbrand , Markus Hofer , Laura Bernadó , Stefan Zelenbaba , Thomas Zemen

The design of cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems requires accurate, measurement-based channel models. This paper provides the first results from the by far most extensive outdoor measurement campaign for CF-mMIMO channels in an urban…

In this paper, we consider massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems for both downlink and uplink scenarios, where three radio units (RUs) connected via one digital unit (DU) support multiple user equipments (UEs) at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yeon-Geun Lim , Chan-Byoung Chae , Giuseppe Caire

The impressive growth of wireless data networks has recently led to increased attention to the issue of electromagnetic pollution. Specific absorption rates and incident power densities have become popular indicators for measuring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Sergi Liesegang , Stefano Buzzi

Cell-free (CF) systems have the potential to fulfill the increasing performance demand of future wireless applications by employing distributed access points (APs) that transmit the information over the same time-frequency resources. Due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 A. Flores , R. C. de Lamare

Low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication (SatCom) has emerged as a promising technology to improve wireless connectivity in global areas. Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO), an architecture proposed for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Xiangyu Li , Bodong Shang

Due to the relatively high cost of deploying optical fibers, free space optical (FSO) links have been developed as a cost-effective alternative technology for next generation cellular networks. However, in order to have a practical role in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Mohammad Taghi Dabiri , Himan Savojbolaghchi , Seyed Mohammad Sajad Sadough

A continuous goal in all communication systems is to enhance the users experience and provide them with the highest possible data rates. Recently, the concept of cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems has been considered to enhance the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Ahmed Almehdhar , Mohanad Obeed , Anas Chaaban , Salam A. Zummo

This paper proposes a novel scheme for cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CFmMIMO) networks to support any federated learning (FL) framework. This scheme allows each instead of all the iterations of the FL framework to happen…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Tung T. Vu , Duy T. Ngo , Nguyen H. Tran , Hien Quoc Ngo , Minh N. Dao , Richard H. Middleton

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

The precoding in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology relies on accurate knowledge of channel responses between users (UEs) and access points (APs). Obtaining high-quality channel estimates in turn requires the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Giovanni Interdonato , Pål Frenger , Erik G. Larsson

CF-mMIMO systems are a promising solution to enhance the performance in 6G wireless networks. Its distributed nature of the architecture makes it highly reliable, provides sufficient coverage and allows higher performance than cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-12 Ramprasad Raghunath , Bile Peng , Eduard A. Jorswieck

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is considered as a communication-efficient solution for data aggregation and distributed learning by exploiting the superposition properties of wireless multi-access channels. However, AirComp is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Chen Chen , Emil Björnson , Carlo Fischione

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Shuaifei Chen , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Bo Ai

We provide a performance evaluation of orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation in cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems. By leveraging the inherent sparsity of the delay-Doppler (DD) representation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

This paper investigates network-level integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) under two fundamentally different topology configurations: cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) and multi-cell massive MIMO (MC-mMIMO). A unified OFDM-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Maryam Darabi , Sergi Liesegang , Emanuele Grossi , Stefano Buzzi

Cell-Free Massive MIMO (CF mMIMO) has emerged as a potential enabler for future networks. It has been shown that these networks are much more energy-efficient than classical cellular systems when they are serving users at peak capacity.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Robbert Beerten , Vida Ranjbar , Andrea P. Guevara , Hazem Sallouha , Sofie Pollin

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

Cell-free massive MIMO improves the fairness among the user equipments (UEs) in the network by distributing many cooperating access points (APs) around the region while connecting them to a centralized cloud-computing unit that coordinates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-05 Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) are considered as the prospective multiple antenna technologies for beyond the fifth-generation (5G) networks. Cell-free MIMO systems powered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Taegyun Noh , Junil Choi