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We develop a graph neural network (GNN) to compute, within a time budget of 1 to 2 milliseconds required by practical systems, the optimal linear precoder (OLP) maximizing the minimal downlink user data rate for a Cell-Free Massive MIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Benjamin Parlier , Lou Salaün , Hong Yang

Optimization-based power control algorithms are predominantly iterative with high computational complexity, making them impractical for real-time applications in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CFmMIMO) systems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Tingting Zhang , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , David J. Love , Taejoon Kim , Kai Dong

We study internet of things (IoT) systems supported by cell-free (CF) massive MIMO (mMIMO) with optimal linear channel estimation. For the uplink, we consider optimal linear MIMO receiver and obtain an uplink SINR approximation involving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Hangsong Yan , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

In this paper, a general framework for deep learning-based power control methods for max-min, max-product and max-sum-rate optimization in uplink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) systems is proposed. Instead of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Yongshun Zhang , Jiayi Zhang , Yu Jin , Stefano Buzzi , Bo Ai

Massive MIMO systems are moving toward increased numbers of radio frequency chains, higher carrier frequencies and larger bandwidths. As such, digital-to-analog converters (DACs) are becoming a bottleneck in terms of hardware complexity and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-16 Thomas Feys , Liesbet Van der Perre , François Rottenberg

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) has emerged as a promising paradigm for delivering uniformly high-quality coverage in future wireless networks. To address the inherent challenges of precoding in such distributed systems, recent studies…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Tianzheng Miao , Thomas Feys , Gilles Callebaut , Jarne Van Mulders , Emanuele Peschiera , Md Arifur Rahman , François Rottenberg

CF-mMIMO systems are a promising solution to enhance the performance in 6G wireless networks. Its distributed nature of the architecture makes it highly reliable, provides sufficient coverage and allows higher performance than cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-12 Ramprasad Raghunath , Bile Peng , Eduard A. Jorswieck

We consider the problem of max-min fairness for uplink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output which is a potential technology for beyond 5G networks. More specifically, we aim to maximize the minimum spectral efficiency of all…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 Muhammad Farooq , Hien Quoc Ngo , Le Nam Tran

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) has emerged as a prominent candidate for future networks due to its ability to significantly enhance spectral efficiency by eliminating inter-cell interference. However, its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yukun Ma , Jiayi Zhang , Ziheng Liu , Guowei Shi , Bo Ai

6th Generation (6G) industrial wireless subnetworks are expected to replace wired connectivity for control operation in robots and production modules. Interference management techniques such as centralized power control can improve spectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Daniel Abode , Ramoni Adeogun , Gilberto Berardinelli

In this paper, a novel optimization model for joint beamforming and power control in the downlink (DL) of a cell-free massive MIMO (CFmMIMO) system is presented. The objective of the proposed optimization model is to minimize the maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Mohamed Elwekeil , Alessio Zappone , Stefano Buzzi

Cell-free massive MIMO (CFmMIMO) systems require scalable and reliable distributed coordination mechanisms to operate under stringent communication and latency constraints. A central challenge is the Access Point Selection (APS) problem,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Mohammad Zangooei , Lou Salaün , Chung Shue Chen , Raouf Boutaba

The impressive growth of wireless data networks has recently led to increased attention to the issue of electromagnetic pollution and the fulfillment of electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure limits. This paper tackles the problem of power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Sergi Liesegang , Stefano Buzzi

In this paper, we resort to the graph neural network (GNN) and propose the new channel tracking method for the massive multiple-input multiple-output networks under the high mobility scenario. We first utilize a small number of pilots to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Yindi Yang , Shun Zhang , Feifei Gao , Jianpeng Ma , Octavia A. Dobre

Millimeter wave (mmWave) cell-free massive MIMO (CF mMIMO) is a promising solution for future wireless communications. However, its optimization is non-trivial due to the challenging channel characteristics. We show that mmWave CF mMIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Bile Peng , Bihan Guo , Karl-Ludwig Besser , Luca Kunz , Ramprasad Raghunath , Anke Schmeink , Eduard A Jorswieck , Giuseppe Caire , H. Vincent Poor

This paper proposes a distributed learning-based framework to tackle the sum ergodic rate maximization problem in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems by utilizing the graph neural network (GNN). Different from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Nguyen Xuan Tung , Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Won Joo Hwang

Recently, the so-called cell-free Massive MIMO architecture has been introduced, wherein a very large number of distributed access points (APs) simultaneously and jointly serve a much smaller number of mobile stations (MSs). A variant of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Stefano Buzzi , Alessio Zappone

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems represent a promising approach to increase the spectral efficiency of wireless communication systems. However, near-optimal beamforming solutions require a large amount of signaling exchange between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-08 Hamed Hojatian , Jeremy Nadal , Jean-Francois Frigon , Francois Leduc-Primeau

A graph neural network (GNN) based access point (AP) selection algorithm for cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems is proposed. Two graphs, a homogeneous graph which includes only AP nodes representing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Vismika Ranasinghe , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

This paper considers a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system that consists of a large number of geographically distributed access points (APs) serving multiple users via coherent joint transmission. The downlink…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-15 Mahmoud Zaher , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Marina Petrova
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