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In traditional cellular networks, users at the cell edge often suffer from poor quality of service (QoS) due to large distance-dependent path loss and severe inter-cell interference. While cell-free (CF) massive multi-input multi-out (MIMO)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

The deployment of ultra-dense networks (UDNs), particularly cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO), is mainly hindered by costly and capacity-limited fronthaul links. This work proposes a two-tiered optimization framework for cost-effective…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Anas S. Mohammed , Krishnendu S. Tharakan , Hussein A. Ammar , Hesham ElSawy , Hossam S. Hassanein

We investigate the physical layer (PHY) spectral efficiency and fronthaul network load of a scalable user-centric cell-free massive MIMO system. Each user-centric cluster processor responsible for cluster-level signal processing is located…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Fabian Göttsch , Max Franke , Arash Pourdamghani , Giuseppe Caire , Stefan Schmid

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CFmMIMO) coordinates a great number of distributed access points (APs) with central processing units (CPUs), effectively reducing interference and ensuring uniform service quality for user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-23 Phu Lai , Wei Xiang , William Damario Lukito , Khoa Tran Phan , Peng Cheng , Chang Liu , Guoqiang Mao

Mixed-precision quantization, where a deep neural network's layers are quantized to different precisions, offers the opportunity to optimize the trade-offs between model size, latency, and statistical accuracy beyond what can be achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Georg Rutishauser , Francesco Conti , Luca Benini

The limited fronthaul capacity is known to be one of the main problems in cloud radio access networks (CRANs), especially in the wireless fronthaul links. In this paper, we consider the uplink of a CRAN system, where massive multiple-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Dick Maryopi , Yingjia Huang , Aissa Ikhlef

Massive MIMO's immense potential to serve large number of users at fast data rates also comes with the caveat of requiring tremendous processing power. This favours a centralized radio access network (C-RAN) architecture that concentrates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Aswathylakshmi P , Radha Krishna Ganti

This paper investigates the optimal signal detection problem with a particular interest in large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The problem is NP-hard and can be solved optimally by searching the shortest path on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Le He , Ke He , Lisheng Fan , Xianfu Lei , Arumugam Nallanathan , George K. Karagiannidis

The conventional approach to the fronthaul design for cell-free massive MIMO system follows the compress-and-precode (CP) paradigm. Accordingly, encoded bits and precoding coefficients are shared by the distributed unit (DU) on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Sangwoo Park , Ahmet Hasim Gokceoglu , Li Wang , Osvaldo Simeone

Cell-free massive MIMO improves the fairness among the user equipments (UEs) in the network by distributing many cooperating access points (APs) around the region while connecting them to a centralized cloud-computing unit that coordinates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-05 Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

This paper considers the power-efficient resource allocation problem in a cloud radio access network (C-RAN). The C-RAN architecture consists of a set of base-band units (BBUs) which are connected to a set of radio remote heads (RRHs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-22 Nahid Amani , Saeedeh Parsaeefard , Hassan Taheri , Hossein Pedram

In this paper the problem of allocating the limited backhaul bandwidth among users in Multi-cell MIMO cooperative networks is considered. We approach the problem from both the sum-rate and fairness perspectives. First, we show that there…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-06-14 Hazem M. Soliman , Omar A. Nasr , Mohamed M. Khairy

Limited-backhaul cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), in which the fog radio access network (F-RAN) is implemented to exchange the information between access points (APs) and the central processing unit (CPU), is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Manijeh Bashar , Hien Quoc Ngo , Alister G. Burr , Dick Maryopi , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Erik G. Larsson

Hybrid precoding has been recognized as a promising technology to combat the path loss of millimeter wave signals in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. However, due to the joint optimization of the digital and analog…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-12 Ling Zhang , Lin Gui , Kai Ying , Qibo Qin

We consider the system-wide utility maximization problem in the downlink of a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system whereby a very large number of access points (APs) simultaneously serve a group of users.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Muhammad Farooq , Hien Quoc Ngo , Een-Kee Hong , Le-Nam Tran

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) network and its user-centric (UC) version are considered as promising techniques for the next generations of wireless networks. However, fronthaul and backhaul assignments are challenging issues in these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Pouya Agheli , Mohammad Javad Emadi , Hamzeh Beyranvand

With a great potential of improving the service fairness and quality for user equipments (UEs), cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) has been regarded as an emerging candidate for 6G network architectures. Under ideal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Hangyu Zhang , Rui Zhang , Yongzhao Li , Yuhan Ruan , Tao Li , Dong Yang

Cloud-based Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is a promising architecture for future cellular networks, in which Baseband Units (BBUs) are placed at a centralized location, with capacity-constrained fronthaul connected to multiple distributed…

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

Device activity detection in the emerging cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems has been recognized as a crucial task in machine-type communications, in which multiple access points (APs) jointly identify the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yang Li , Qingfeng Lin , Ya-Feng Liu , Bo Ai , Yik-Chung Wu

In this correspondence, we propose hierarchical high-altitude platform (HAP)-low-altitude platform (LAP) networks with the aim of maximizing the sum-rate of ground user equipments (UEs). The multiple aerial radio units (RUs) mounted on HAPs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Jeongbin Kim , Seongah Jeong , Seonghoon Yoo , Woong Son , Joonhyuk Kang