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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…