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Cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) enhances spectral and energy efficiency compared to conventional cellular networks by enabling joint transmission and reception across a large number of distributed access points…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

In-band full-duplex (FD) operation is practically more suited for short-range communications such as WiFi and small-cell networks, due to its current practical limitations on the self-interference cancellation. In addition, cell-free…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Hieu V. Nguyen , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Octavia A. Dobre , Shree Krishna Sharma , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Oh-Soon Shin

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO), where each user equipment (UE) is connected to multiple access points (APs), is emerging as an important component for 5G and 6G cellular systems. Accurate channel models based on measurements are required…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Yuning Zhang , Thomas Choi , Zihang Cheng , Jorge Gomez-Ponce , Issei Kanno , Masaaki Ito , Andreas F. Molisch

One of the major challenges with cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks is providing backhaul links for a large number of distributed access points (APs). In general, providing fiber optics backhaul for these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Ali Hosseinalipour Jazi , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh , Tommy Svensson

Cell-Free massive MIMO networks provide huge power gains and resolve inter-cell interference by coherent processing over a massive number of distributed instead of co-located antennas in access points (APs). Cost-efficient hardware is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Yibo Wu , Luca Sanguinetti , Ulf Gustavsson , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Henk Wymeersch

In this paper, we investigate the impact of channel aging on the uplink performance of a cell-free~(CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) system with a minimum mean squared error (MMSE) receiver. To this end, we present a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Ribhu Chopra , Chandra R. Murthy , Anastasios K. Papazafeiropoulos

In practical cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks with distributed and low-cost access points, the asynchronous arrival of signals at the user equipments increases multi-user interference that degrades the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Julian Cheng , Victor C. M. Leung , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

Spatial wideband effects are known to affect channel estimation and localization performance in millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Based on perturbation analysis, we show that the spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Shudi Weng , Fan Jiang , Henk Wymeersch

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

In this paper, we consider the uplink channel estimation phase and downlink data transmission phase of cell-free millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with low-capacity fronthaul links and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-01 In-soo Kim , Mehdi Bennis , Junil Choi

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CFmMIMO) is a paradigm that can improve users' spectral efficiency (SE) far beyond traditional cellular networks. Increased spatial diversity in CFmMIMO is achieved by spreading the antennas…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-01 Vida Ranjbar , Robbert Beerten , Marc Moonen , Sofie Pollin

In this paper, we investigate the impact of channel aging on the performance of cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with both spatial correlation and pilot contamination. We derive novel closed-form uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai

The issue of diminished spectral efficiency (SE) of the downlink (DL) transmission in distributed cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems poses a significant challenge in terms of user equipment (UE) performance when compared to their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Reza Roshanghias , Reza Saadat

Cell-free massive MIMO systems have promising data rate and uniform coverage gains. These systems, however, typically rely on optical fiber based fronthaul for the communication between the central processing unit (CPU) and the distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Umut Demirhan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

We consider a two-way half-duplex decode-and-forward (DF) relaying system with multiple pairs of single-antenna users assisted by a cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) architecture with multiple-antenna access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Anastasios K. Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas , John M. Senior

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

In this paper, the zero-forcing (ZF) precoder with max-min power allocation is proposed for cell-free millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems using low-resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 In-soo Kim , Junil Choi

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

Cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) is a next-generation wireless access technology that offers superior coverage and spectral efficiency compared to conventional MIMO. With many future applications in unlicensed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Zakir Hussain Shaik , Erik G. Larsson

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are expected to implement advanced cooperative communication techniques to let geographically distributed access points jointly serve user equipments. Building on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Bo Ai