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We propose a novel resource-efficient over-the-air(OTA) computation framework to address the huge fronthaul computational and control overhead requirements in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks. We show that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zakir Hussain Shaik , Sai Subramanyam Thoota , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

The high hardware complexity of a massive MIMO base station, which requires hundreds of radio chains, makes it challenging to build commercially. One way to reduce the hardware complexity and power consumption of the receiver is to lower…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Christopher Mollén , Junil Choi , Erik G. Larsson , Robert W. Heath

This paper analyzes how the distortion created by hardware impairments in a multiple-antenna base station affects the uplink spectral efficiency (SE), with focus on Massive MIMO. The distortion is correlated across the antennas, but has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti , Jakob Hoydis

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

This paper investigates the compress-and-forward scheme for an uplink cloud radio access network (C-RAN) model, where multi-antenna base-stations (BSs) are connected to a cloud-computing based central processor (CP) via capacity-limited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Yuhan Zhou , Yinfei Xu , Wei Yu , Jun Chen

A promising approach to deal with the high hardware cost and energy consumption of massive MIMO transmitters is to use low-resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs) at each antenna element. This leads to a transmission scheme where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Zheyu Wu , Junjie Ma , Ya-Feng Liu , A. Lee Swindlehurst

We examine the problem of uplink cell-free access point (AP) placement in the context of optimal throughput. In this regard, we formulate two main placement problems, namely the sum rate and minimum rate maximization problems, and discuss…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Govind R. Gopal , Bhaskar D. Rao

We consider the problem of channel estimation for uplink multiuser massive MIMO systems, where, in order to significantly reduce the hardware cost and power consumption, one-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are used at the base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Feiyu Wang , Jun Fang , Hongbin Li , Shaoqian Li

This paper investigates the problem of activity detection and channel estimation in cooperative multi-cell massive access systems with temporally correlated activity, where all access points (APs) are connected to a central unit via…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Weifeng Zhu , Meixia Tao , Xiaojun Yuan , Fan Xu , Yunfeng Guan

We consider scalable cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output networks under an open radio access network paradigm comprising user equipments (UEs), radio units (RUs), and decentralized processing units (DUs). UEs are served by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Zhiyang Li , Fabian Göttsch , Siyao Li , Ming Chen , Giuseppe Caire

This work studies the joint design of precoding and backhaul compression strategies for the downlink of cloud radio access networks. In these systems, a central encoder is connected to multiple multi-antenna base stations (BSs) via…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Onur Sahin , Shlomo Shamai

We consider a cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system and investigate the system performance for the case when the quantized version of the estimated channel and the quantized received signal are available at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Manijeh Bashar , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Alister G. Burr , Hien Quoc Ngo , Merouane Debbah

We investigate the energy efficiency performance of cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), where the access points (APs) are connected to a central processing unit (CPU) via limited-capacity links. Thanks to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Manijeh Bashar , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Alister G. Burr , Hien Quoc Ngo , Erik G. Larsson , Pei Xiao

This work considers the downlink of a cloud radio access network (C-RAN), in which a control unit (CU) encodes confidential messages, each of which is intended for a user equipment (UE) and is to be kept secret from all the other UEs. As…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Shlomo Shamai

This paper studies the uplink of a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) where the cell sites are connected to a cloud-computing-based central processor (CP) with noiseless backhaul links with finite capacities. We employ a simple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-19 Yuhan Zhou , Wei Yu

Future generations of cellular systems presume to use an extremely high number of antennas to enable mm waves. Increasing the number of antennas requires a growth in connections between a remote radio head (RRH) and a baseband unit (BBU).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Roman Bychkov , Andrey Dergachev , Alexander Osinsky , Dmitry Lakontsev , Andrey Ivanov

We consider fronthaul-limited generalized zeroforcing-based cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems with multiple-antenna users and multipleantenna access points (APs) relying on both cooperative beamforming (CB)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zahra Mobini , Ahmet Hasim Gokceoglu , Li Wang , Gunnar Peters , Hien Quoc Ngo

In this contribution, we investigate a coarsely quantized Multi-User (MU)-Multiple Input Single Output (MISO) downlink communication system, where we assume 1-Bit Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs) at the Base Station (BS) antennas. First,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Oliver De Candido , Hela Jedda , Amine Mezghani , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Josef A. Nossek

In this paper, we consider the uplink of cell-free massive MIMO systems, where a large number of distributed single antenna access points (APs) serve a much smaller number of users simultaneously via limited backhaul. For the first time, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Qinhui Huang , Alister Burr

A Cell-Free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system comprises a very large number of distributed access points (APs)which simultaneously serve a much smaller number of users over the same time/frequency resources based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Hien Quoc Ngo , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang , Erik G. Larsson , Thomas L. Marzetta