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Cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output is considered a promising technology for the next generation of wireless communication networks. The main idea is to distribute a large number of access points (APs) in a geographical region…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Andreas Angelou , Pourya Behmandpoor , Marc Moonen

In cloud radio access networks (C-RANs), the baseband processing of the radio units (RUs) is migrated to remote control units (CUs). This is made possible by a network of backhaul links that connects RUs and CUs and that carries compressed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Onur Sahin , Shlomo Shamai

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) deployments are usually investigated with half-duplex nodes and high-capacity fronthaul links. To leverage the possible gains in throughput and energy efficiency (EE) of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-11 Soumyadeep Datta , Ekant Sharma , Dheeraj Naidu Amudala , Rohit Budhiraja , Shivendra S. Panwar

This paper presents a novel strategy to decentralize the soft detection procedure in an uplink cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output network. We propose efficient approaches to compute the a posteriori probability-per-bit,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Zakir Hussain Shaik , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

We present a mathematical analysis of linear precoders for downlink massive MIMO multiuser systems that employ one-bit digital-to-analog converters at the basestation in order to reduce complexity and mitigate power usage. The analysis is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-24 Amodh Kant Saxena , Inbar Fijalkow , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Base station (BS) cooperative transmission can improve the spectrum efficiency of cellular systems, whereas using which the channels will become asymmetry. In this paper, we study the impact of the asymmetry on the performance of channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-22 Xueying Hou , Chenyang Yang , Buon Kiong , Lau

The implementation of a Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) with Full Dimensional (FD)-MIMO is faced with the challenge of controlling the fronthaul overhead for the transmission of baseband signals as the number of horizontal and vertical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Jinkyu Kang , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang , Shlomo Shamai

Integrating cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) with simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs) can provide ubiquitous connectivity and enhance coverage. This paper explores…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jun Qian , Ross Murch , Khaled B. Letaief

The channel hardening effect is less pronounced in the cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) system compared to its cellular counterpart, making it necessary to estimate the downlink effective channel gains to ensure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Weiyang Xu , Ruiguang Wang , Yuan Zhang , Hien Quoc Ngo , Wei Xiang

In this paper, we investigate cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems in which access points (APs) are equipped with fluid antennas (FAs) and develop a comprehensive framework for channel estimation, antenna port selection, and uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Maryam Olyaee , Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi

Multicell joint processing can mitigate inter-cell interference and thereby increase the spectral efficiency of cellular systems. Most previous work has assumed phase-aligned (coherent) transmissions from different base transceiver stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mingguang Xu , Dongning Guo , Michael L. Honig

This paper considers networked sensing in cellular network, where multiple base stations (BSs) first compress their received echo signals from multiple targets and then forward the quantized signals to the central unit (CU) via…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-09 Weifeng Zhu , Shuowen Zhang , Liang Liu

It is generally believed that downlink cell-free networks perform best under centralized implementations where the local channel state information (CSI) acquired by the access-points (AP) is forwarded to one or more central processing units…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Lorenzo Miretti , Sławomir Stańczak

We present a differentiable joint pruning and quantization (DJPQ) scheme. We frame neural network compression as a joint gradient-based optimization problem, trading off between model pruning and quantization automatically for hardware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Ying Wang , Yadong Lu , Tijmen Blankevoort

We study multi-user massive multiple-input single-output (MISO) systems and focus on downlink transmission, where the base station (BS) employs a large antenna array with low-cost 1-bit digital-to-analog converters (DACs). The direct…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-09 Ang Li , Christos Masouros , Fan Liu , A. L. Swindlehurst

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems have attracted much attention lately due to the many advantages they provide over single-antenna systems. Owing to the many antennas, low-cost implementation and low power consumption…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Ali Bulut Üçüncü , Emil Björnson , Håkan Johansson , Erik G. Larsson , Ali Özgür Yılmaz

In a multi-user system with multiple antennas at the base station, precoding techniques in the downlink broadcast channel allow users to detect their respective data in a non-cooperative manner. Vector Perturbation Precoding (VPP) is a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Srikar Kasi , Abhishek Kumar Singh , Davide Venturelli , Kyle Jamieson

Low-resolution quantization is essential to reduce implementation cost and power consumption in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems for 5G and 6G. While most existing studies assume perfect channel state information (CSI),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Reza Mohammadkhani , Azad Azizzadeh , Seyed Vahab Al-Din Makki , John Thompson , Maziar Nekovee

This paper analyzes the performance of multicell massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems with variable-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). In such an architecture, each ADC uses arbitrary quantization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Youzhi Xiong , Sanshan Sun , Ning Wei , Li Liu , Zhongpei Zhang

In virtual reality (VR) applications, 360-degree images play a pivotal role in crafting immersive experiences and offering panoramic views, thus improving user Quality of Experience (QoE). However, the voluminous data generated by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Yang Ma , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang , Wei Zhang