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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

It has been well known that the achievable rate of multiuser multiple-input multiple-output systems with limited feedback is severely degraded by quantization errors when the number of feedback bits is not sufficient. To overcome such a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Wentao Zhou , Di Zhang , Merouane Debbah , Inkyu Lee

The performance of centralized and distributed massive MIMO deployments are analyzed for indoor office scenarios. The distributed deployments use one of the following precoding methods: (1) local precoding with local channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Stefan Dierks , Gerhard Kramer , Berthold Panzner , Wolfgang Zirwas

The design of precoding plays a crucial role in achieving a high downlink sum-rate in multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. In this correspondence, we propose a deep…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Yiran Guo , Wei Chen , Jialong Xu , Lun Li , Bo Ai

Massive multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) will be a core technology in fifth-generation (5G) wireless systems as it offers significant improvements in spectral efficiency compared to existing multi-antenna technologies.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Oscar Castañeda , Sven Jacobsson , Giuseppe Durisi , Mikael Coldrey , Tom Goldstein , Christoph Studer

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

Precoding is a critical and long-standing technique in multi-user communication systems. However, the majority of existing precoding methods do not consider channel coding in their designs. In this paper, we consider the precoding problem…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Ly V. Nguyen , Junil Choi , Bjorn Ottersten , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In conventional multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems with frequency division duplexing (FDD), channel acquisition and precoder optimization processes have been designed separately although they are highly coupled.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Jeonghyeon Jang , Hoon Lee , Il-Min Kim , Inkyu Lee

This paper considers the joint transceiver design for downlink multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) systems with coordinated base stations (BSs) where imperfect channel state information (CSI) is available at the BSs and mobile…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Tadilo Endeshaw , Luc Vandendorpe , Batu Krishna Chalise

Network densification, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands have recently emerged as some of the physical layer enablers for the future generations of wireless communication networks (5G and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-21 Guillem Femenias , Felip Riera-Palou

We investigate a fronthaul-limited cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system and propose a hybrid centralized-distributed precoding strategy that dynamically adapts to varying fronthaul and spectral efficiency (SE)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Ardavan Rahimian , Anvar Tukmanov , David Townend , Michail Matthaiou , Simon L. Cotton

This paper studies scalable conjugate beamforming (CB) variants for physical-layer multicasting in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems. Focusing on fully distributed precoding, we analyze classical CB,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Alejandro de la Fuente , Adrián Espinosa , Jan García-Morales , Guillem Femenias , Felip Riera-Palou

This paper introduces a robust resource allocation framework for the downlink of cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (CF-mMIMO) networks to address the effects caused by imperfect channel state information (CSI). In particular, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-11 S. Mashdour , A. R. Flores , S. Salehi , R. C. de Lamare , Anke Schmeink

This work focuses on distributed linear precoding when users transmit correlated information over a fading Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output Multiple Access Channel. Precoders are optimized in order to minimize the sum-Mean Square Error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 P. Suárez-Casal , J. P. González-Coma , O. Fresnedo , L. Castedo

This paper proposes the class of Generalized Least-Square-Error (GLSE) precoders for multiuser massive MIMO systems. For a generic transmit constellation, GLSE precoders minimize the interference at user terminals assuring that given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Ali Bereyhi , Mohammad Ali Sedaghat , Ralf R. Müller , Georg Fischer

This paper studies the joint design of user grouping, scheduling (or admission control) and precoding to optimize energy efficiency (EE) for multigroup multicast scenarios in single-cell multiuser MISO downlink channels. Noticing that the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Ashok Bandi , Bhavani Shankar Mysore R , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

In cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks, robust resource allocation is critical to ensure reliable system performance in the presence of channel uncertainties resulting from imperfect channel state information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Saeed Mashdour , Saeed Mohammadzadeh , André R. Flores , Shirin Salehi , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Anke Schmeink

Considering a heterogeneous network (HetNet) system consisting of a macro tier overlaid with a second tier of small cells (SCs), this paper studies the mean square error (MSE) based precoding design to be employed by the macro base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Yongyu Dai , Xiaodai Dong , Wu-Sheng Lu

The demand of massive access to the same multimedia content at the same time is one major challenge for next-generation cellular networks in densely-packed urban areas. The content-aware multicast transmission strategies provide promising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Ahmet Zahid Yalcin , Yavuz Yapici

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