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Large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) with high spectrum and energy efficiency is a very promising key technology for future 5G wireless communications. For large-scale MIMO systems, accurate channel state information (CSI)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Zhen Gao , Linglong Dai , Zhaocheng Wang

To meet the requirements of high energy efficiency (EE) and large system capacity for the fifth-generation (5G) Internet of Things (IoT), the use of massive multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) technology has been launched in the massive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-01 Tiejun Lv , Zhipeng Lin , Pingmu Huang , Jie Zeng

We investigate the effects of pilot assignment in multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output systems. When deploying a large number of antennas at base station (BS), and linear detection/precoding algorithms, the system performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-09 Jose Carlos Marinello , Cristiano Magalhaes Panazio , Taufik Abrao

This paper considers pilot design to mitigate pilot contamination and provide good service for everyone in multi-cell Massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems. Instead of modeling the pilot design as a combinatorial assignment…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

We propose a novel location-aware pilot assignment scheme to mitigate pilot contamination in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks, where the channels are subjected to Rician fading. Our proposed scheme utilizes the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Noman Akbar , Shihao Yan , Nan Yang , Jinhong Yuan

The assignment of the pilot sequence is a critical challenge in massive MIMO systems, as sharing the same pilot sequence among multiple users causes interference, which degrades the accuracy of the channel estimation. This problem,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Eman Alqudah , Ashfaq Khokhar

In user-centric cell-free multi-antenna systems, pilot contamination degrades spectral efficiency (SE) severely. To mitigate pilot contamination, existing works jointly optimize pilot assignment and power allocation by assuming fixed pilot…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Yao Peng , Tingting Liu , Chenyang Yang

We propose a strategy for orthogonal downlink pilot assignment in cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) that exploits knowledge of the channel state information, the channel hardening degree at each user, and the mobility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Giovanni Interdonato , Pål Frenger , Erik G. Larsson

Next generation wireless networks aim at providing substantial improvements in spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE). Massive MIMO has been proved to be a viable technology to achieve these goals by spatially multiplexing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-09-25 Daniel Verenzuela , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

An IoT (Internet of things) system supports a massive number of IoT devices wirelessly. We show how to use Cell-Free Massive MIMO (multiple-input and multiple-output) to provide a scalable and energy efficient IoT system. We employ optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Hangsong Yan , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

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

Since the seminal paper by Marzetta from 2010, Massive MIMO has changed from being a theoretical concept with an infinite number of antennas to a practical technology. The key concepts are adopted in 5G and base stations (BSs) with $M=64$…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-08 Luca Sanguinetti , Emil Björnson , Jakob Hoydis

One of the main use cases for advanced cellular networks is represented by massive Internet-of-things (MIoT), i.e., an enormous number of IoT devices that transmit data toward the cellular network infrastructure. To make cellular MIoT a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Christian Vitale , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini , Francesco Malandrino , Senay Semu Tadesse

Massive MIMO is considered to be one of the key technologies in the emerging 5G systems, but also a concept applicable to other wireless systems. Exploiting the large number of degrees of freedom (DoFs) of massive MIMO essential for…

Resource allocation is conceived for cell-free (CF) massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO)-aided ultra-reliable and low latency communication (URLLC) systems. Specifically, to support multiple devices with limited pilot overhead, pilot…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Qihao Peng , Hong Ren , Mianxiong Dong , Maged Elkashlan , Kai-Kit Wong , Lajos Hanzo

Thanks to its capability to provide a uniform service rate for the User Equipments (UEs), Cell-free (CF) massive Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (mMIMO), has recently attracted considerable attention, both in academia and in industry, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Salman Mohebi , Andrea Zanella , Michele Zorzi

This paper considers three aspects of Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) communication networks that have received little attention in previous works, but are important to understand when designing and implementing this promising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-23 Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

We propose a novel algorithm to design user load-achieving pilot sequences that mitigate pilot contamination in multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks. To this end, we first derive expressions for the user load…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Noman Akbar , Nan Yang , Parastoo Sadeghi , Rodney A. Kennedy

With the evolution of 5G networks, optimizing resource allocation has become crucial to meeting the increasing demand for massive connectivity and high throughput. Combining Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) and massive Multi-Input…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Samar Chebbi , Oussama Habachi , Jean-Pierre Cances , Vahid Meghdadi , Essaid Sabir

Random access is necessary in crowded scenarios due to the limitation of pilot sequences and the intermittent pattern of device activity. Nowadays, most of the related works are based on independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-19 Junyuan Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Fan Wei