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This paper optimizes the pilot assignment and pilot transmit powers to mitigate pilot contamination in Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems. While prior works have treated pilot assignment as a combinatorial problem, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

In this paper, a new state-of-the-art multi-cell MMSE scheme is proposed for massive MIMO networks, which includes an uplink MMSE detector and a downlink MMSE precoder. The main novelty is that it exploits all available pilots for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Xueru Li , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson , Shidong Zhou , Jing Wang

Multiuser Massive MIMO is ongoing wireless technology with high prospects in the distributed architecture with various system design and splitting options. Any of such solutions suffer from imperfect synchronization that can be reduced via…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-08 Vladislav Ryzhov , Anton Laktyushkin

This paper tackles two key challenges in cell-freemassive multiple input multiple output (CF-mMIMO) systems:efficient pilot allocation and practical receiver design. To thisend, we introduce a novel pilot allocation framework…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Getuar Rexhepi , Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe , Kengo Ando , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , David Gonzalez G

The assignment of the pilot sequence is a critical challenge in massive MIMO systems, as sharing the same pilot sequence among multiple users causes interference, which degrades the accuracy of the channel estimation. This problem,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Eman Alqudah , Ashfaq Khokhar

In this paper we address the problem of resource allocation for alarm traffic in industrial Internet of Things networks using massive MIMO. We formulate the general problem of how to allocate pilot signals to alarm traffic such that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Emma Fitzgerald , Michał Pióro

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

We propose a novel pilot sequence design to mitigate pilot contamination in multi-cell multiuser massive multiple-input multiple-output networks. Our proposed design generates pilot sequences in the multi-cell network and devises power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Noman Akbar , Nan Yang , Parastoo Sadeghi , Rodney A. Kennedy

We consider the uplink of a cellular massive MIMO network. Acquiring channel state information at the base stations (BSs) requires uplink pilot signaling. Since the number of orthogonal pilot sequences is limited by the channel coherence,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Rami Mochaourab , Emil Björnson , Mats Bengtsson

Carrier frequency and timing synchronization play the fundamental roles in cooperative integrating communication and sensing (ISAC). To mitigate the effects of synchronization error, this paper develops a novel synchronization scheme in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Qihao Peng , Hong Ren , Zhendong Peng , Cunhua Pan , Maged Elkashlan , Dongming Wang , Jiangzhou Wang , Xiaohu You

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is expected to be a vital component in future 5G systems. As such, there is a need for new modeling in order to investigate the performance of massive MIMO not only at the physical layer, but…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-13 Emma Fitzgerald , Michał Pióro , Fredrik Tufvesson

Future cellular networks are expected to support new communication paradigms such as machine-type communication (MTC) services along with conventional human-type communication (HTC) services. This requires base stations to serve a large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Kamil Senel , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

In this paper, we study the impact of pilot contamination in a system where two operators serve their respective users with the assistance of two wide-band reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), each belonging to a single operator. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Doğa Gürgünoğlu , Emil Björnson , Gábor Fodor

This letter focuses on the problem of pilot assignment in cell-free massive MIMO systems. Exploiting the well-known Hungarian algorithms, two procedures are proposed, one maximizing the system throughput, and the other one maximizing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Maria Fresia , Yong-Ping Zhang , Shulan Feng

Pilot reuse in multi-cell massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system is investigated where user groups with different priorities exist. Recent investigation on pilot reuse has revealed that when the ratio of the coherent time interval…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Jy-yong Sohn , Sung Whan Yoon , Jaekyun Moon

This paper proposes a novel joint channel estimation and beamforming approach for multicell wideband massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems. With the proposed channel estimation and beamforming approach, we determine the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Tadilo Endeshaw Bogale , Long Bao Le , Xianbin Wang , Luc Vandendorpe

The Internet of Things (IoT) is large-scale by nature, which is manifested by the massive number of connected devices as well as their vast spatial existence. Cellular networks, which provide ubiquitous, reliable, and efficient wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Mohammad Gharbieh , Hesham ElSawy , Ahmed Bader , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Mission critical data dissemination in massive Internet of things (IoT) networks imposes constraints on the message transfer delay between devices. Due to low power and communication range of IoT devices, data is foreseen to be relayed over…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Muhammad Junaid Farooq , Quanyan Zhu

We consider the downlink of cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation. Two pilot-based channel estimation schemes, namely superimposed pilot-based (SP-CHE) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

Massive MIMO is considered to be one of the key technologies in the emerging 5G systems, but also a concept applicable to other wireless systems. Exploiting the large number of degrees of freedom (DoFs) of massive MIMO essential for…