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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

The spectral efficiency (SE) of Massive MIMO (MaMIMO) systems is affected by low quality channel estimates. Rate-Splitting (RS) has recently gained some interest in multiuser multiple antenna systems as an effective means to mitigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Bruno Clerckx , Luca Sanguinetti , Dirk Slock

In this paper, we investigate the impact of channel aging on the performance of cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with both spatial correlation and pilot contamination. We derive novel closed-form uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai

In this paper, we investigate the uplink performance of cell-free (CF) extremely large-scale multiple-input-multipleoutput (XL-MIMO) systems, which is a promising technique for future wireless communications. More specifically, we consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Hao Lei , Zhe Wang , Huahua Xiao , Jiayi Zhang , Bo Ai

A limitation of bandwidth in the wireless network and the exponential rise in the high data rate requirement prompted the development of Massive Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) technique in 5G. Using this method the ever rising data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Mariea Sharaf Anzum , Moontasir Rafique , Md. Asif Ishrak Sarder , Fehima Tajrian , Abdullah Bin Shams

Cell-free massive MIMO systems are currently being considered as potential enablers of future (6G) technologies for wireless communications. By combining distributed processing and massive MIMO, they are expected to deliver improved user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Raphael M. Guedes , José F. de Rezende , Valmir C. Barbosa

In this paper, we analyze the performance of the uplink communication of massive multi-cell multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems under the effects of pilot contamination and delayed channels because of terminal mobility. The base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Anastasios K. Papazafeiropoulos , Hien Quoc Ngo , Tharm Ratnarajah

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising technology aiming at achieving high spectral efficiency by deploying a large number of base station (BS) antennas using coherent combining. Channel aging due to user mobility is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Anastasios K. Papazafeiropoulos

This paper considers cell-free and user-centric approaches for coverage improvement in wireless cellular systems operating at millimeter wave frequencies, and proposes downlink power control algorithms aimed at maximizing the global energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Mario Alonzo , Stefano Buzzi , Alessio Zappone

Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) has recently gained a lot of attention due to its high potential in sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems. The goal of this paper is to first present a unified modeling for massive MIMO,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

Assume that a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system is designed from scratch to uniformly cover a given area with maximal energy efficiency (EE). What are the optimal number of antennas, active users, and transmit power?…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti , Jakob Hoydis , Mérouane Debbah

Base stations with a large number of transmit antennas have the potential to serve a large number of users at high rates. However, the receiver processing in the uplink relies on channel estimates which are known to suffer from pilot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Narayanan Krishnan , Roy D. Yates , Narayan B. Mandayam

This work aims to design a cellular network for maximal energy efficiency (EE). In particular, we consider the uplink with multi-antenna base stations and assume that zero- forcing (ZF) combining is used for data detection with imperfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Andrea Pizzo , Daniel Verenzuela , Luca Sanguinetti , Emil Björnson

We consider a practical cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system with multi-antenna access points (APs) and spatially correlated Rician fading channels. The significant phase-shift of the line-of-sight component…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Zhe Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai

This paper considers the jointly optimal pilot and data power allocation in single cell uplink massive MIMO systems. A closed form solution for the optimal length of the training interval is derived. Using the spectral efficiency (SE) as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hei Victor Cheng , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with multi-antenna access points and user equipments (UEs) over Weichselberger Rician fading channels with random phase-shifts. More specifically, we investigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Xin Li , Jiayi Zhang , Zhe Wang , Bo Ai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

We consider the downlink of a cooperative cellular communications system, where several base-stations around each mobile cooperate and perform zero-forcing to reduce the received interference at the mobile. We derive closed-form expressions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Itsik Bergel , Siddhartan Govindasamy

We study the performance of uplink transmission in a large-scale (massive) MIMO system, where all the transmitters have single antennas and the receiver (base station) has a large number of antennas. Specifically, we analyze achievable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Zhengdao Wang

This paper considers cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output systems where the multiple-antenna access points (APs) assist the single-antenna user equipments (UEs) by wireless power transfer. The UEs utilize the energy harvested in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) provides more uniform spectral efficiency (SE) for users (UEs) than cellular technology. The main challenge to achieve the benefits of cell-free massive MIMO is to realize signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Jiayi Zhang , Jing Zhang , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai