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User-centric cell-free (UCCF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are considered a viable solution to realize the advantages offered by cell-free (CF) networks, including reduced interference and consistent quality of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-15 S. Salehi , S. Mashdour , O. Tamyigit , S. Seyedmasoumian , M. Moradikia , R. C. de Lamare , A. Schmeink

Large number of antennas and radio frequency (RF) chains at the base stations (BSs) lead to high energy consumption in massive MIMO systems. Thus, how to improve the energy efficiency (EE) with a computationally efficient approach is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Mangqing Guo , M. Cenk Gursoy

In this paper, we propose a novel deep unsupervised learning-based approach that jointly optimizes antenna selection and hybrid beamforming to improve the hardware and spectral efficiencies of massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-24 Zhiyan Liu , Yuwen Yang , Feifei Gao , Ting Zhou , Hongbing Ma

In this paper, we propose a scheme for the joint optimization of the user transmit power and the antenna selection at the access points (AP)s of a user-centric cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (UC CF-mMIMO) system. We derive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Shashank Shekhar , Athira Subhash , Muralikrishnan Srinivasan , Sheetal Kalyani

In cell-free massive MIMO systems with multiple distributed access points (APs) serving multiple users over the same time-frequency resources, downlink beamforming is done through spatial precoding. Precoding vectors can be optimally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Mehdi Zafari , Divyanshu Pandey , Rahman Doost-Mohammady , César A. Uribe

We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with multiple antennas on the users and access points (APs). In previous works, the downlink spectral efficiency (SE) has been evaluated using the hardening bound…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Eren Berk Kama , Junbeom Kim , Emil Björnson

Cell-free massive MIMO systems consist of many distributed access points with simple components that jointly serve the users. In millimeter wave bands, only a limited set of predetermined beams can be supported. In a network that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Cenk M. Yetis , Emil Björnson , Pontus Giselsson

In an extra-large scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) system, the antenna arrays have a large physical size that goes beyond the dimensions in traditional MIMO systems. Because of this large dimensionality, the optimization of an XL-MIMO system leads to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-04 Abolfazl Amiri , Carles Navarro Manch'on , Elisabeth de Carvalho

We consider multi-group multicast precoding designs for cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. To optimize the transmit and receive beamforming strategies, we focus on minimizing the sum of the maximum mean squared…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Bikshapathi Gouda , Italo Atzeni , Antti Tölli

Distributed antenna selection for Distributed Massive MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) communication systems reduces computational complexity compared to centralised approaches, and provides high fault tolerance while retaining…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-30 Harun Siljak , Kyriaki Psara , Anna Philippou

Large-scale distributed Multiuser MIMO (MU-MIMO) is a promising wireless network architecture that combines the advantages of "massive MIMO" and "small cells." It consists of several Access Points (APs) connected to a central server via a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-04-02 Ryan Rogalin , Ozgun Bursalioglu , Haralabos Papadopoulos , Giuseppe Caire , Andreas Molisch , Antonios Michaloliakos , Vlad Balan , Konstantinos Psounis

This paper studies learning-based decentralized power control methods for cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems where a central processor (CP) controls access points (APs) through fronthaul coordination. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Daesung Yu , Hoon Lee , Seung-Eun Hong , Seok-Hwan Park

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

We propose fully distributed multi-group multicast precoding designs for cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with modest training overhead. We target the minimization of the sum of the maximum mean squared errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Bikshapathi Gouda , Italo Atzeni , Antti Tölli

Sharing global channel information at base stations (BSs) is commonly assumed for downlink multi-cell precoding. In the context of massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems where each BS is equipped with a large number of antennas,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Liangbin Li , Alexei Ashikhmin , Thomas Marzetta

This paper investigates pilot assignment and access point (AP) selection strategies for uplink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems. We propose channel similarity-aware pilot assignment (CAPA) and AP selection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Saeed Mohammadzadeh , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Pei Liu , Hien Quoc Ngo

Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) has recently attracted much attention, attributed to its potential to deliver uniform service quality. However, the adoption of a cell-free architecture raises concerns about the high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

Contrary to conventional massive MIMO cellular configurations plagued by inter-cell interference, cell-free massive MIMO systems distribute network resources across the coverage area, enabling users to connect with multiple access points…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Giovanni Di Gennaro , Amedeo Buonanno , Gianmarco Romano , Stefano Buzzi , Francesco A. N Palmieri

This paper develops a multi-user downlink communication framework for distributed low Earth orbit satellite networks serving ground users equipped with multiple antennas. Building upon the concept of cell-free multiple-input multiple-output…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Parisa Ramezani , Emil Björnson

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems achieve high sum spectral efficiency by offering an order of magnitude increase in multiplexing gains. In time division duplexing systems, however, the reuse of uplink training pilots…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Geert Leus , Robert W. Heath