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We consider the problem of pilot-aided, uplink channel estimation in a distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) architecture, in which the access points are connected to a central processing unit via fiber-optical fronthaul…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Alireza Bordbar , Lise Aabel , Christian Häger , Christian Fager , Giuseppe Durisi

Cell-free Massive MIMO is considered as a promising technology for satisfying the increasing number of users and high rate expectations in beyond-5G networks. The key idea is to let many distributed access points (APs) communicate with all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

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 networks provide huge power gains and resolve inter-cell interference by coherent processing over a massive number of distributed instead of co-located antennas in access points (APs). Cost-efficient hardware is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Yibo Wu , Luca Sanguinetti , Ulf Gustavsson , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Henk Wymeersch

This paper considers signal detection in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with general additive hardware impairments and one-bit quantization. First, we present the quantization-unaware and Bussgang decomposition-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Özlem Tugfe Demir , Emil Björnson

This paper addresses the critical challenge of mitigating hardware impairments (HWIs) in downlink cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) networks while ensuring computational scalability. We propose a novel sequential hardware-aware (HW-aware)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Antoine Durant , Asma Mabrouk , Rafik Zayani

In the design of wireless systems, quantization plays a critical role in hardware, which directly affects both area efficiency and energy efficiency. Being an enabling technique, the wide applications of multiple-input multiple-output…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Yingmeng Ge , Zhenhao Ji , Yongming Huang , Zaichen Zhang , Xiaohu You , Chuan Zhang

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 studies the optimal bit allocation for shape-gain vector quantization of wireless channels in multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink systems based on linear precoding. Our design minimizes the mean…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-30 Muhammad Nazmul Islam , Raviraj Adve , Behrouz Khoshnevis

In this work we propose a fronthaul compression scheme for distributed MIMO systems with multi-antenna receivers, in which, prior to signal quantisation, dimension reduction is performed at each receiver by matched filtering the received…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Fred Wiffen , Mohammud Z. Bocus , Angela Doufexi , Woon Hau Chin

Cell-Free Massive Multiple-input Multiple-output (mMIMO) consists of many access points (APs) in a coverage area that jointly serve the users. These systems can significantly reduce the interference among the users compared to conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Abbas Khalili , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

One of the major challenges with cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks is providing backhaul links for a large number of distributed access points (APs). In general, providing fiber optics backhaul for these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Ali Hosseinalipour Jazi , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh , Tommy Svensson

In recent years, hardware-accelerated neural networks have gained significant attention for edge computing applications. Among various hardware options, crossbar arrays, offer a promising avenue for efficient storage and manipulation of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Arseni Ivanov

Modular extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) architectures combined with wireless fronthaul provide a scalable alternative to monolithic arrays, but their performance is sensitive to hardware impairments and resource allocation strategies.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Özlem Tuğfe Demir

Having lower quantization resolution, has been introduced in the literature, as a solution to reduce the power consumption of massive MIMO and millimeter wave MIMO systems. In this paper, we analyze bit error rate (BER) performance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-20 Azad Azizzadeh , Reza Mohammadkhani , Seyed Vahab Al-Din Makki , Emil Björnson

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

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

Cooperative beamforming across access points (APs) and fronthaul quantization strategies are essential for cloud radio access network (C-RAN) systems. The nonconvexity of the C-RAN optimization problems, which is stemmed from per-AP power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-07 Daesung Yu , Hoon Lee , Seok-Hwan Park , Seung-Eun Hong

In this paper, we investigate the uplink signal detection approaches in the cell-free massive MIMO systems with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serving as aerial access points (APs). The ground users are equipped with multiple antennas and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Xuesong Pan , Zhong Zheng , Xueqing Huang , Zesong Fei

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