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Massive MIMO brings both motivations and challenges to develop the 5th generation Mobile wireless technology. The promising number of users and the high bitrate offered per unit area are challenged by uplink pilot contamination due to pilot…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Ahmad Abboud , Jean-Pierre Cances , Ali H. Jaber , Vahid Meghdadi

We study a full-duplex (FD) cell-free massive MIMO system where distributed access points (APs) operate in FD mode while user equipments (UEs) remain half-duplex. Although simultaneous uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) transmissions improve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Bikshapathi Gouda , Antti Tölli

A Cell-Free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system comprises a very large number of distributed access points (APs)which simultaneously serve a much smaller number of users over the same time/frequency resources based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Hien Quoc Ngo , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang , Erik G. Larsson , Thomas L. Marzetta

Integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for surveillance or monitoring applications into fifth generation (5G) New Radio (NR) cellular networks is an intriguing problem that has recently tackled a lot of interest in both academia and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Donatella Darsena , Ivan Iudice , Francesco Verde

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

With the evolution of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology toward extremely large (XL) MIMO systems comprising hundreds of, or more, antennas, this work investigates scalable and fronthaul-efficient reception design for the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Dogon Kim , Hyunmin Noh , Seok-Hwan Park

To integrate unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in future large-scale deployments, a new wireless communication paradigm, namely, the cellular-connected UAV has recently attracted interest. However, the line-of-sight dominant air-to-ground…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Md Moin Uddin Chowdhury , Ismail Guvenc , Walid Saad , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

This work aims to design the uplink (UL) of a cellular network for maximal energy efficiency (EE). Each base station (BS) is randomly deployed within a given area and is equipped with $M$ antennas to serve $K$ user equipments (UEs). A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Andrea Pizzo , Daniel Verenzuela , Luca Sanguinetti , Emil Björnson

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider downlink scenarios from an aerial base station to ground users. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah

Conventional spatial modulation (SM) is typically considered for transmission in the downlink of small-scale MIMO systems, where a single one of a set of antenna elements (AEs) is activated for implicitly conveying extra bits. By contrast,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Zhen Gao , Linglong Dai , Zhaocheng Wang , Sheng Chen , Lajos Hanzo

Cell-free massive MIMO is a key 6G technology, offering superior spectral and energy efficiency. However, its dense deployment of low-cost access points (APs) makes hardware impairments unavoidable. While narrowband impairments are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Muhammed Selman Somuncu , Ahmet M. Elbir , Emil Björnson

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output is a potential candidate for future networks with pervasive connectivity by utilizing coherent joint transmission and distributed antenna arrays. This paper studies the exploitation of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Trinh Van Chien , Bui Trong Duc , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

The present paper deals with an OFDM-based uplink within a multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) system where a massive MIMO approach is employed. In this context, the linear detectors Minimum Mean-Squared Error (MMSE), Zero Forcing (ZF) and Maximum…

In this paper, we study the uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) spectral efficiency (SE) of a cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system with Rician fading channels. The phase of the line-of-sight (LoS) path is modeled as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Özgecan Özdogan , Emil Björnson , Jiayi Zhang

This letter studies the signal-to-interference-plus-noise (SINR) meta distribution of uplink transmission of UAV-enabled wireless networks with inversion power control. Within a framework of stochastic geometry, the Matern cluster process…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-23 Yujie Qin , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper studies a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where its access points (APs) and users are equipped with multiple antennas. Two transmission protocols are considered. In the first transmission protocol,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Trang C. Mai , Hien Quoc Ngo , Trung Q. Duong

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

UAVs are capable of improving the performance of next generation wireless systems. Specifically, UAVs can be exploited as aerial base-stations (UAV-BS) for supporting legitimate ground users in remote uncovered areas or in environments…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Hamed Bastami , Hamid Behroozi , Majid Moradikia , Ahmed Abdelhadi , Derrick Wing Kwan Ngand , Lajos Hanzo

In this paper, we develop a distributed mechanism for spectrum sharing among a network of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and licensed terrestrial networks. This method can provide a practical solution for situations where the UAV network…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Alireza Shamsoshoara , Mehrdad Khaledi , Fatemeh Afghah , Abolfazl Razi , Jonathan Ashdown

This paper is concerned with SC/FDE for bandwidth-efficient uplink block transmission, with QAM schemes, in a MU MIMO system. The number of BS receiver antennas is assumed to be large, but not necessarily much larger than the overall number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Paulo Torres , Antonio Gusmao