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This work studies coarse quantization-aware BD (${\scriptstyle\mathrm{CQA-BD}}$) and coarse quantization-aware RBD (${\scriptstyle\mathrm{CQA-RBD}}$) precoding algorithms for large-scale MU-MIMO systems with coarsely quantized signals and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-15 S. F. Pinto , R. C. de Lamare

This paper considers the uplink of a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) comprised of several multi-antenna remote radio units (RUs) which compress the signals that they receive from multiple mobile users (MUs) and forward them to a CU via…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Marzieh Najafi , Vahid Jamali , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

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

For large language models (LLMs), post-training quantization (PTQ) can significantly reduce memory footprint and computational overhead. Model quantization is rapidly evolving. Though many papers report breakthrough results, they are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yutong Liu , Cairong Zhao , Guosheng Hu

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

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

We investigate a fronthaul-limited cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system and propose a hybrid centralized-distributed precoding strategy that dynamically adapts to varying fronthaul and spectral efficiency (SE)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Ardavan Rahimian , Anvar Tukmanov , David Townend , Michail Matthaiou , Simon L. Cotton

Limited capacity of fronthaul links in a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system can cause quantization errors at a central processing unit (CPU) during data transmission, complicating the centralized rate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-29 Minje Kim , In-soo Kim , Junil Choi

Multi-Cell (MC) systems are present in mobile network operations from the first generation to the fifth generation of wireless networks, and considers the signals of all users to a base station (BS) centered in a cell. Cell-Free (CF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-04 E. F. de Almeida , R. C. de Lamare

Cell-free massive MIMO provides ubiquitous connectivity for multiple users, and implementation using radio stripes is very efficient. Compared with collocated massive MIMO, the major cost includes fronthaul overheads and AP hardware.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Zhifeng Yuan , Yihua Ma , Guanghui Yu

Many wireless systems divide the baseband processing between two locations, interconnected by a fronthaul. This paper examines the impact of fronthaul quantization on multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Starting from a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising network to offer huge improvement of the achievable rate compared with conventional cellular massive MIMO systems. However, the commonly adopted Shannon-type achievable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Enyu Shi , Jing Zhang , Jiayi Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

A sequential fronthaul network, referred to as radio stripes, is a promising fronthaul topology of cell-free MIMO systems. In this setup, a single cable suffices to connect access points (APs) to a central processor (CP). Thus, radio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Sangwon Jo , Hoon Lee , Seok-Hwan Park

Limited fronthaul capacity is a practical bottleneck in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) 5G architectures, where a base station (BS) consists of an advanced antenna system (AAS) connected to a baseband unit (BBU). Conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Emil Bjornson , Joakim Jalden

We exploit a general cluster-based network architecture for a fronthaul-limited user-centric cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system under different degrees of cooperation among the access points (APs) to achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zahra Mobini , Ahmet Hasim Gokceoglu , Li Wang , Gunnar Peters , Hyundong Shin , Hien Quoc Ngo

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

Quantized massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems are gaining more interest due to their power efficiency. We present a new precoding technique to mitigate the multi-user interference and the quantization distortions in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Hela Jedda , Amine Mezghani , Josef A. Nossek , A. Lee Swindlehurst

We consider cooperative radio access network architectures, especially distributed massive MIMO and Cloud RAN, considering their similarities and differences. We address in particular the major challenge posed to both by the implementation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Alister Burr , Manijeh Bashar , Dick Maryopi

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 2021-12-13 Soumyadeep Datta , Dheeraj Naidu Amudala , Ekant Sharma , Rohit Budhiraja , Shivendra S. Panwar

Imagine a coverage area with many wireless access points that cooperate to jointly serve the users, instead of creating autonomous cells. Such a cell-free network operation can potentially resolve many of the interference issues that appear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti