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Remarkable research activities and major advances have been occurred over the past decade in multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems. Several transmission technologies and precoding techniques have been developed in order…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Eduardo Castañeda , Adão Silva , Atílio Gameiro , Marios Kountouris

Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) and massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) are two key enabling technologies to meet the diverse and stringent requirements of the 5G use cases. In a C-RAN system with massive MIMO, fronthaul is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-11 Jobin Francis , Gerhard Fettweis

This paper presents a comprehensive study on the 3D positioning capabilities in distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Unlike previous studies that mainly rely on idealized isotropic antenna models, we adopt a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-24 Yingjie Xu , Xuesong Cai , Ali Al-Ameri , Sara Willhammar , Fredrik Tufvesson

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

This paper investigates the energy efficiency (EE) and spectral efficiency (SE) trade-off in uplink distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (D-mMIMO) systems. Unlike conventional approaches where power consumption focuses…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mohd Saif Ali Khan , Karthik RM , Samar Agnihotri

We analyze the uplink performance of a distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) architecture in which the remotely located access points (APs) are connected to a central processing unit via a fiber-optical fronthaul…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Anzhong Hu , Lise Aabel , Giuseppe Durisi , Sven Jacobsson , Mikael Coldrey , Christian Fager , Christoph Studer

Base stations in 5G and beyond use advanced antenna systems (AASs), where multiple passive antenna elements and radio units are integrated into a single box. A critical bottleneck of such a system is the digital fronthaul between the AAS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Emil Björnson , Joakim Jaldèn

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is an emerging technology that will reshape the architecture of next-generation networks. This paper considers the sequential fronthaul, whereby the access points (APs) are connected…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Vida Ranjbar , Robbert Beerten , Marc Moonen , Sofie Pollin

Device-to-device (D2D) technology enables direct communication between adjacent devices within cellular networks. Due to its high data rate, low latency, and performance improvement in spectrum and energy efficiency, it has been widely…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Yang Yu , Xiaoqing Tang

In this paper, we propose network massive multiple- input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where three radio units (RUs) connected via one digital unit (DU) support multiple user equipments (UEs) at a cell-boundary through the same radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-20 Changwoo Lee , Chan-Byoung Chae , Taehyung Kim , Sooyong Choi , Juho Lee

This paper considers the power-efficient resource allocation problem in a cloud radio access network (C-RAN). The C-RAN architecture consists of a set of base-band units (BBUs) which are connected to a set of radio remote heads (RRHs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-22 Nahid Amani , Saeedeh Parsaeefard , Hassan Taheri , Hossein Pedram

Cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) enhances spectral and energy efficiency compared to conventional cellular networks by enabling joint transmission and reception across a large number of distributed access points…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

This paper studies a downlink multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) system, where the precoding matrix is computed at a baseband unit (BBU) and then transmitted to the remote antenna array over a limited-capacity digital…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Alva Kosasih , Emil Björnson , Joakim Jaldén

Cell-free massive MIMO is a variant of multiuser MIMO and massive MIMO, in which the total number of antennas $LM$ is distributed among the $L$ remote radio units (RUs) in the system, enabling macrodiversity and joint processing. Due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Fabian Göttsch , Noboru Osawa , Takeo Ohseki , Kosuke Yamazaki , Giuseppe Caire

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

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

As a critical component of beyond fifth-generation (B5G) and sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication systems, ultra-reliable low-latency communication (uRLLC) imposes stringent requirements on latency and reliability. In recent years,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Ziyang Zhang , Dongming Wang , Yunxiang Guo , Yang Cao , Xiaohu You

This paper proposes a distributed massive multiple input multiple-output (DM-MIMO) aided multi-tier vehicular edge computing (VEC) system. In particular, each vehicle terminal (VT) offloads its computational task to the roadside unit (RSU)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Yixin Liu , Shaoling Liang , Kunlun Wang , Wen Chen , Yonghui Li , George K. Karagiannidis

This paper proposes a dimension reduction-based signal compression scheme for uplink distributed MIMO cloud radio access networks (C-RAN) with an overall excess of receive antennas, in which users are jointly served by distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Fred Wiffen , Mohammud Z. Bocus , Woon Hau Chin , Angela Doufexi , Mark Beach

To make indoor industrial cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) networks free from wired fronthaul, this paper studies a multicarrier-division duplex (MDD)-enabled two-tier terahertz (THz) fronthaul scheme. More…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Bohan Li , Diego Dupleich , Guoqing Xia , Huiyu Zhou , Yue Zhang , Pei Xiao , Lie-Liang Yang