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MIMO mobile systems, with a large number of antennas at the base-station side, enable the concurrent transmission of multiple, spatially separated information streams and, therefore, enable improved network throughput and connectivity both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Konstantinos Nikitopoulos , Marcin Filo , Chathura Jayawardena , Rahim Tafazolli

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) has emerged as an alternative deployment for conventional cellular massive MIMO networks. Prior works relied on the strong assumption (quite idealized) that the APs are uniformly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Marco Di Renzo , Symeon Chatzinotas , John M. Senior

Cell-free (CF) massive MIMO offers uniform service via distributed access points (APs), which impose high deployment costs. A novel design called hierarchical cell-free (HCF) addresses this problem by replacing some APs with a central base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Wei Jiang , Hans D Schotten

Cell-free massive MIMO provides ubiquitous connectivity for multiple users, and implementation using radio stripes is very efficient. Compared with collocated massive MIMO, the major cost includes fronthaul overheads and AP hardware.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Zhifeng Yuan , Yihua Ma , Guanghui Yu

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

This paper addresses the critical challenge of mitigating hardware impairments (HWIs) in downlink cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) networks while ensuring computational scalability. We propose a novel sequential hardware-aware (HW-aware)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Antoine Durant , Asma Mabrouk , Rafik Zayani

One of the first widespread uses of multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) is in 5G networks, where each base station has an advanced antenna system (AAS) that is connected to the baseband unit (BBU) with a capacity-constrained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Emil Björnson , Joakim Jaldén

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 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) employs a large number of distributed access points (APs) to serve a small number of user equipments (UEs) via the same time/frequency resource. Due to the strong macro diversity gain,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Jiayi Zhang , Jing Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Shi Jin , Bo Ai

We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) network, where unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with multiple antennas serve as distributed UAV-access points (UAV-APs). These UAV-APs provide seamless coverage…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-10 Neetu R. R , Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar , Gourab Ghatak , Vivek Ashok Bohara

Large-scale distributed antenna systems with many access points (APs) that serve the users by coherent joint transmission is being considered for 5G-and-beyond networks. The technology is called Cell-free Massive MIMO and can provide a more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

In this paper, we study upper bounds on the sum capacity of the downlink multicell processing model with finite backhaul capacity for the simple case of 2 base stations and 2 mobile users. It is modelled as a two-user multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Tianyu Yang , Nan Liu , Wei Kang , Shlomo Shamai

Network densification, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands have recently emerged as some of the physical layer enablers for the future generations of wireless communication networks (5G and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-21 Guillem Femenias , Felip Riera-Palou

Cell-free Massive MIMO systems consist of a large number of geographically distributed access points (APs) that serve users by coherent joint transmission. Downlink power allocation is important in these systems, to determine which APs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Sucharita Chakraborty , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

In this work, we propose iterative access point (AP) selection (APS), linear minimum mean-square error (MMSE) precoding and power allocation techniques for Cell-Free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We consider the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-13 V. Palhares , A. R. Flores , R. C. de Lamare

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-M-MIMO) systems represent an evolution of the classical cellular architecture that has dominated the mobile landscape for decades. In CF-M-MIMO, a central processing unit (CPU) controls a multitude of access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-27 Felip Riera-Palou , Guillem Femenias

Modular extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) architectures combined with wireless fronthaul provide a scalable alternative to monolithic arrays, but their performance is sensitive to hardware impairments and resource allocation strategies.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Özlem Tuğfe Demir

This paper introduces a new efficient autoprecoder (AP) based deep learning approach for massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) downlink systems in which the base station is equipped with a large number of antennas with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Xinying Cheng , Rafik Zayani , Marin Ferecatu , Nicolas Audebert

In this paper, we investigate cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems in which access points (APs) are equipped with fluid antennas (FAs) and develop a comprehensive framework for channel estimation, antenna port selection, and uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Maryam Olyaee , Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi

Cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) ensures ubiquitous communication at high spectral efficiency (SE) thanks to increased macro-diversity as compared cellular communications. However, system scalability and performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Giovanni Interdonato , Marcus Karlsson , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson