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Grant-free cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (GF-CF-MaMIMO) systems are anticipated to be a key enabling technology for next-generation Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks, as they support massive connectivity without explicit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Christian Forsch , Laura Cottatellucci

We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-MaMIMO) communication system in the uplink transmission and propose a novel algorithm for blind or semi-blind joint channel estimation and data detection (JCD). We formulate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Alexander Karataev , Christian Forsch , Laura Cottatellucci

Cell-Free (CF) Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MaMIMO) is considered one of the leading candidates for enabling next-generation wireless communication. With the growing interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), the Grant-Free (GF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zilu Zhao , Christian Forsch , Laura Cottatellucci , Dirk Slock

Cell-free massive MIMO is one of the core technologies for future wireless networks. It is expected to bring enormous benefits, including ultra-high reliability, data throughput, energy efficiency, and uniform coverage. As a radically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Hengtao He , Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Semi-blind joint channel estimation and data detection (JCD) is a promising approach to mitigate pilot contamination in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-MaMIMO) networks. The effectiveness of such methods fundamentally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Christian Forsch , Laura Cottatellucci

Grant-free transmission and cell-free communication are vital in improving coverage and quality-of-service for massive machine-type communication. This paper proposes a novel framework of joint active user detection, channel estimation, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-20 Gangle Sun , Mengyao Cao , Wenjin Wang , Wei Xu , Christoph Studer

We propose a joint channel estimation and data detection (JED) algorithm for densely-populated cell-free massive multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, which reduces the channel training overhead caused by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Haochuan Song , Tom Goldstein , Xiaohu You , Chuan Zhang , Olav Tirkkonen , Christoph Studer

In cell-free massive MIMO networks, an efficient distributed detection algorithm is of significant importance. In this paper, we propose a distributed expectation propagation (EP) detector for cell-free massive MIMO. The detector is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Hengtao He , Hanqing Wang , Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

We propose a novel joint activity, channel, and data estimation (JACDE) scheme for cell-free multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems compliant with fifth-generation (5G) new radio (NR) orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Hiroki Iimori , Takumi Takahashi , Koji Ishibashi , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Wei Yu

Massive grant-free transmission and cell-free wireless communication systems have emerged as pivotal enablers for massive machine-type communication. This paper proposes a deep-unfolding-based joint activity and data detection (DU-JAD)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Gangle Sun , Wenjin Wang , Wei Xu , Christoph Studer

Massive machine-type communication (mMTC) is a newly introduced service category in 5G wireless communication systems to support a variety of Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. In recovering sparsely represented multi-user vectors,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-02 Jinyoup Ahn , Byonghyo Shim , Kwang Bok Lee

Cell-free communication has the potential to significantly improve grant-free transmission in massive machine-type communication, wherein multiple access points jointly serve a large number of user equipments to improve coverage and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Gangle Sun , Mengyao Cao , Wenjin Wang , Wei Xu , Christoph Studer

Pilot contamination (PC) arises when the pilot sequences assigned to user equipments (UEs) are not mutually orthogonal, eventually due to their reuse. In this work, we propose a novel expectation propagation (EP)-based joint channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Christian Forsch , Zilu Zhao , Dirk Slock , Laura Cottatellucci

This paper serves as a correction to the conference version. In this work, we explore uplink communication in cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MaMIMO) systems, employing semi-blind transmission structures to mitigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Zilu Zhao , Dirk Slock

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (M-MIMO) technology plays a prominent role in the beyond fifth-generation (5G) networks. However, designing a high performance CF M-MIMO detector is a challenging task due to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-28 Alva Kosasih , Vera Miloslavskaya , Wibowo Hardjawana , Victor Andrean , Branka Vucetic

Compressed sensing multi-user detection (CS-MUD) algorithms play a key role in optimizing grant-free (GF) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) for massive machine-type communications (mMTC). However, current CS-MUD algorithms cannot be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-04 Leatile Marata , Onel Luis Alcaraz López , Andreas Hauptmann , Hamza Djelouat , Hirley Alves

Most existing studies on joint activity detection and channel estimation for grant-free massive random access (RA) systems assume perfect synchronization among all active users, which is hard to achieve in practice. Therefore, this paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Xinyu Bian , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

We study the expectation propagation (EP) algorithm for symbol detection in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The EP detector shows excellent performance but suffers from a high computational complexity due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Luca Schmid , Dominik Sulz , Laurent Schmalen

Future wireless networks need to support massive machine type communication (mMTC) where a massive number of devices accesses the network and massive MIMO is a promising enabling technology. Massive access schemes have been studied for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Unnikrishnan Kunnath Ganesan , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

This paper introduces a novel joint communication and proactive monitoring (JCAM) system that simultaneously monitors multiple untrusted links and serves multiple legitimate users. The system leverages a cell-free massive multiple-input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Mustafa S. Abbas , Zahra Mobini , Hamid Reza Hashempour , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou
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