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Under the ideal assumption of uniform propagation, cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) provides uniformly high throughput over the network by effectively surrounding each user with its serving access point (AP) set. However, in realistic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-09 Yunlu Xiao , Marina Petrova , Ljiljana Simić

This paper studies a wireless-energy-transfer (WET) enabled massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system (MM) consisting of a hybrid data-and-energy access point (H-AP) and multiple single-antenna users. In the WET-MM system, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Gang Yang , Chin Keong Ho , Rui Zhang , Yong Liang Guan

User association determines which base stations a user connects to, hence affecting the amount of network interference and consequently the network throughput. Conventional user association schemes, however, assume that user instantaneous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Alireza Alizadeh , Mai Vu

User association is necessary in dense millimeter wave (mmWave) networks to determine which base station a user connects to in order to balance base station loads and maximize throughput. Given that mmWave connections are highly directional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Alireza Alizadeh , Mai Vu

We investigate the coexistence of underlay spectrum sharing in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. A primary system with geographically distributed primary access points (P-APs) serves a multitude of primary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Diluka Loku Galappaththige , Gayan Amarasuriya Aruma Baduge

Commonly considered user association frameworks in millimeter-wave communications are based on the sum rate maximization, and they essentially neglect user specific rate and service requirements. Furthermore, new features of millimeter-wave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Veljko Boljanovic , Forough Yaghoubi , Danijela Cabric

We show experimentally that workload-based AP-STA associations can improve system throughput significantly. We present a predictive model that guides optimal resource allocations in dense Wi-Fi networks and achieves 72-77% of the optimal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Thomas Sandholm , Bernardo A. Huberman

This article analyzes the achievable sum-rate of multiuser uplink segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna systems (SWANs). To unveil system-design insights, an upper bound on the achievable sum-rate is derived, based on which the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Songnan Gu , Zhenqiao Cheng , Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

Millimeter wave (mmW) communications at the 60 GHz unlicensed band is seen as a promising approach for boosting the capacity of wireless local area networks (WLANs). If properly integrated into legacy IEEE 802.11 standards, mmW…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Omid Semiari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

This work proposes a joint power control and access points (APs) scheduling algorithm for uplink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) networks without channel hardening assumption. Extensive studies have done on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Hyeonsik Yeom , Junguk Park , Jinho Choi , Jeongseok Ha

This letter considers the problem of joint user association (UA), sub-channel assignment, antenna selection (AS), and power control in the uplink (UL) of a heterogeneous network such that the data rate of small cell users can be maximized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Ata Khalili , Soroush Akhlaghi , Hina Tabassum , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

In dense neighborhoods, there are often dozens of homes in close proximity. This can either be a tight city-block with many single-family homes (SFHs), or a multiple dwelling units (MDU) complex (such as a big apartment building or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Yonatan Vaizman , Hongcheng Wang

In this paper, we consider a down-link transmission of multicell virtualized wireless networks (VWNs) where users of different service providers (slices) within a specific region are served by a set of base stations (BSs) through orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-27 Saeedeh Parsaeefard , Rajesh Dawadi , Mahsa Derakhshani , Tho Le-Ngoc

Consumer electronic (CE) devices increasingly rely on wireless local area networks (WLANs). Next generation WLANs will continue to exploit multiple antenna systems to satisfy the growing need for WLAN system capacity. Multiple-input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-05 Xiaofu Ma , Qinghai Gao , Ji Wang , Vuk Marojevic , Jeffrey H. Reed

A whole suite of innovative technologies and architectures have emerged in response to the rapid growth of wireless traffic. This paper studies an integrated network design that boosts system capacity through cooperation between wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Trinh Van Chien , Eva Lagunas , Tiep M. Hoang , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Lajos Hanzo

This study addresses the challenge of access point (AP) and user equipment (UE) association in cell-free massive MIMO networks. It introduces a deep learning algorithm leveraging Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory cells and a hybrid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Giovanni Di Gennaro , Amedeo Buonanno , Gianmarco Romano , Stefano Buzzi , Francesco A. N. Palmieri

In this paper, the uplink adaptation for massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) networks without the knowledge of user density is considered. Specifically, a novel cooperative uplink transmission and detection scheme is first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Yang Li , Zezhong Zhang , Rui Wang , Kaibin Huang , Yifan Chen

In this paper, we propose a scheme for the joint optimization of the user transmit power and the antenna selection at the access points (AP)s of a user-centric cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (UC CF-mMIMO) system. We derive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Shashank Shekhar , Athira Subhash , Muralikrishnan Srinivasan , Sheetal Kalyani

The use of a very large number of antennas at each base station site (referred to as "Massive MIMO") is one of the most promising approaches to cope with the predicted wireless data traffic explosion. In combination with Time Division…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Dilip Bethanabhotla , Ozgun Bursalioglu , Haralabos Papadopoulos , Giuseppe Caire

This paper considers the problem of beam alignment in a cell-free massive MIMO deployment with multiple access points (APs) and multiple user equipments (UEs) simultaneously operating in the same millimeter wave frequency band. Assuming the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Maria Fresia , Xiaofeng Wu