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The growing complexity of urban mobility and the demand for efficient, sustainable, and adaptive solutions have positioned Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) at the forefront of modern infrastructure innovation. At the core of ITS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Rexcharles Donatus , Kumater Ter , Daniel Udekwe

This paper considers a mobile edge computing-enabled cell-free massive MIMO wireless network. An optimization problem for the joint allocation of uplink powers and remote computational resources is formulated, aimed at minimizing the total…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi

In this paper, we apply an multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) framework allowing the base station (BS) and the user equipments (UEs) to jointly learn a channel access policy and its signaling in a wireless multiple access scenario.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Mateus P. Mota , Alvaro Valcarce , Jean-Marie Gorce

This paper addresses the problem of scalability for a cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) system that performs integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). Specifically, the case where a large number of access points (APs) are deployed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Sergi Liesegang

A deep learning (DL)-based power control algorithm that solves the max-min user fairness problem in a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system is proposed. Max-min rate optimization problem in a cell-free massive MIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Nuwanthika Rajapaksha , K. B. Shashika Manosha , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

Multiple concepts for future generations of wireless communication standards utilize coherent processing of signals from many distributed antennas. Names for these concepts include distributed MIMO, cell-free massive MIMO, XL-MIMO, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Christian Nelson , Xuhong Li , Thomas Wilding , Benjamin Deutschmann , Klaus Witrisal , Fredrik Tufvesson

Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) has recently gained much attention for its potential in shaping the landscape of sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems. This paper proposes a hierarchical network architecture tailored for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

In cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output systems, downlink power control is essential to ensure uniformly high service quality across users. Existing methods range from centralized iterative approaches requiring global channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Giovanni Di Gennaro , Amedeo Buonanno , Gianmarco Romano , Francesco Verde , Stefano Buzzi , Francesco A. N. Palmieri

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)-assisted cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) systems have emerged as a promising technology for sixth-generation communication systems. These systems capitalize on RIS to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Yu Lu , Jiayi Zhang , Enyu Shi , Peng Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Dusit Niyato , Bo Ai

Learning cooperative multi-agent policies directly from high-dimensional, multimodal sensory inputs like pixels and audio (from pixels) is notoriously sample-inefficient. Model-free Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) algorithms…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sureyya Akin , Kavita Srivastava , Prateek B. Kapoor , Pradeep G. Sethi , Sunita Q. Patel , Rahu Srivastava

Recently, the so-called cell-free (CF) Massive MIMO architecture has been introduced, wherein a very large number of distributed access points (APs) simultaneously and jointly serve a much smaller number of mobile stations (MSs). The paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Alessio Zappone

The rapid proliferation of devices and increasing data traffic in cellular networks necessitate advanced solutions to meet these escalating demands. Massive MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) technology offers a promising approach,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-09 Adel Heidari , Agrim Gupta , Ish Kumar Jain , Dinesh Bharadia

The performance of simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in downlink (DL) cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is investigated. Tight approximations to the DL harvested energy and the DL/uplink (UL)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Diluka Loku Galappaththige , Rajan Shrestha , Gayan Amarasuriya Aruma Baduge

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is expected to be an important technology in future sixth generation (6G) networks. Compared with conventional single-polarized XL-MIMO, where signals are transmitted and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Shuhao Zeng , Boya Di , Hongliang Zhang , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

Recently, intent-based management has received good attention in telecom networks owing to stringent performance requirements for many of the use cases. Several approaches in the literature employ traditional closed-loop driven methods to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Satheesh K. Perepu , Jean P. Martins , Ricardo Souza S , Kaushik Dey

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF mMIMO) is a promising next generation wireless architecture to realize federated learning (FL). However, sensitive information of user equipments (UEs) may be exposed to the involved access points or the central…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Jiayi Zhang , Jing Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

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

We consider the downlink of Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems, where a very large number of distributed access points (APs) simultaneously serve a much smaller number of users. Each AP uses local channel estimates obtained from received uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Hien Quoc Ngo , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang , Erik G. Larsson , Thomas L. Marzetta

Cell-Free (CF) Massive MIMO (mMIMO) is a technology which can potentially augment not only the deployment of 5G, but also the deployment of beyond 5G (B5G) wireless networks. However, the cost for rolling out such systems may be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Ioannis Chiotis , Aris L. Moustakas

This article presents a tutorial on multiuser multiple-antenna wireless systems with a very large number of antennas, known as massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems. Signal processing challenges and future trends in the area of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-29 R. C. de Lamare