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Hybrid light fidelity (LiFi) and wireless fidelity (WiFi) indoor networks has been envisioned as a promising technology to alleviate radio frequency spectrum crunch to accommodate the ever-increasing data rate demand in indoor scenarios.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Peijun Hou , Nan Cen

We analyze the uplink performance of a distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) architecture in which the remotely located access points (APs) are connected to a central processing unit via a fiber-optical fronthaul…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Anzhong Hu , Lise Aabel , Giuseppe Durisi , Sven Jacobsson , Mikael Coldrey , Christian Fager , Christoph Studer

We investigate joint localization and synchronization in the downlink of a distributed multiple-input-multiple-output (D-MIMO) system, aiming to estimate the position and phase offset of a single-antenna user equipment (UE) using downlink…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Sauradeep Dey , Musa Furkan Keskin , Dario Tagliaferri , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Henk Wymeersch

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

This paper studies an integrated network design that boosts system capacity through cooperation between wireless access points (APs) and a satellite. By coherently combing the signals received by the central processing unit from the users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Trinh Van Chien , Eva Lagunas , Tiep M. Hoang , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Lajos Hanzo

This letter analyzes the effects of power amplifiers (PAs) on the downlink of cell-free massive MIMO systems. We model signal transmission incorporating nonlinear PA distortion and derive a unified spectral efficiency (SE) expression…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) is a key enabler for the sixth generation (6G) networks, offering unprecedented spectral efficiency and ubiquitous coverage. In CF-mMIMO systems, the association of user equipments…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Ahmed Naeem , Anastassia Gharib , El Mehdi Amhoud , Hüseyin Arslan

In this work, we consider the uplink of a scalable cell-free massive MIMO system where the users are served only by a subset of access points (APs) in the network. The APs are physically grouped into predetermined "cell-centric clusters",…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Carmen D'Andrea , Erik G. Larsson

Using stochastic geometry, we develop a tractable uplink modeling paradigm for outage probability and spectral efficiency in both single and multi-tier cellular wireless networks. The analysis accounts for per user equipment (UE) power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Hesham ElSawy , Ekram Hossain

Although multiple works have proposed energy-efficient resource allocation schemes for Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (M-MIMO) system, most approaches overlook the potential of optimizing Power Amplifier (PA) transmission power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Siddarth Marwaha , Pawel Kryszkiewicz , Eduard A. Jorswieck

We reconsider the problem of joint power control and beamforming design to maximize the weighted sum rate in large and potentially cell-free massive MIMO networks. In contrast to the available short-term methods, where an iterative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Lorenzo Miretti , Emil Björnson , Sławomir Stańczak

This paper studies a joint communication and sensing (JCAS) system with downlink communication and multi-static sensing for single-target detection in a cloud radio access network architecture. A centralized operation of cell-free massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Zinat Behdad , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Ki Won Sung , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

In the cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) system, the centralized transmission scheme is widely adopted to manage the inter-user interference. Unfortunately, its implementation is limited by the extensive signaling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Hongkang Yu , Xinquan Ye , Yijian Chen

One main goal of 5G-and-beyond systems is to simultaneously serve many users, each having a requested spectral efficiency (SE), in an energy-efficient way. The network capacity cannot always satisfy all the SE requirements, for example,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Hien Quoc Ngo

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

We consider an energy minimization problem for cooperative LTE networks. To reduce energy consumption, we investigate how to jointly optimize the transmit power and the association between cells and user equipments (UEs), by taking into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Lei You , Lei Lei , Di Yuan

In this paper we consider a time-division duplex cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where many distributed access points (APs) simultaneously serve many users. A normalized conjugate beamforming scheme, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Giovanni Interdonato , Hien Quoc Ngo , Erik G. Larsson , Pål Frenger

Precoding design for the downlink of multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems is a fundamental problem. In this paper, we aim to maximize the weighted sum rate (WSR) while considering both quality-of-service (QoS)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Kaiyi Chi , Yingzhi Huang , Qianqian Yang , Zhaohui Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

In this paper, we investigate user equipment (UE)-radio access technology (RAT) association and bandwidth assignment to maximize sum-rates in a multi-RAT network. To this end, we formulate an optimization problem that jointly addresses UE…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Manobendu Sarker , Md. Zoheb Hassan , Georges Kaddoum

We address the problem of analyzing and classifying in groups the downlink channel environment in a millimeter-wavelength cell, accounting for path loss, multipath fading, and User Equipment (UE) blocking, by employing a hybrid propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Thomas Ketseoglou , Matthew. C. Valenti , Ender Ayanoglu