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We study an uplink scenario of a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system with limited capacity fronthaul links (LC-FHLs) connecting each access point (AP) to the central unit (CU), where user equipments and APs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Hamed Masoumi , Mohammad Javad Emadi

Precoding design for the downlink of multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems is a fundamental problem. In this paper, we aim to maximize the weighted sum rate (WSR) while considering both quality-of-service (QoS)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Kaiyi Chi , Yingzhi Huang , Qianqian Yang , Zhaohui Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

Limited-backhaul cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), in which the fog radio access network (F-RAN) is implemented to exchange the information between access points (APs) and the central processing unit (CPU), is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Manijeh Bashar , Hien Quoc Ngo , Alister G. Burr , Dick Maryopi , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Erik G. Larsson

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

We consider a cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system and investigate the system performance for the case when the quantized version of the estimated channel and the quantized received signal are available at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Manijeh Bashar , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Alister G. Burr , Hien Quoc Ngo , Merouane Debbah

Network virtualization and cloudification in Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) enable joint orchestration of the processing and fronthaul resources, which are essential for realizing the energy-saving potential of cell-free massive MIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

In this work we propose a fronthaul compression scheme for distributed MIMO systems with multi-antenna receivers, in which, prior to signal quantisation, dimension reduction is performed at each receiver by matched filtering the received…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Fred Wiffen , Mohammud Z. Bocus , Angela Doufexi , Woon Hau Chin

In modern implementations of Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN), the fronthaul transport network will often be packet-based and it will have a multi-hop architecture built with general-purpose switches using network function virtualization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Shlomo Shamai

Massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) enables significant gains in spectral efficiency and link reliability compared to conventional small-scale MIMO technology. Furthermore, linear precoders, e.g., using zero forcing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Kaipeng Li , Charles Jeon , Joseph R. Cavallaro , Christoph Studer

This paper explores the application of uplink fronthaul compression techniques within Open RAN (O-RAN) to mitigate fronthaul load in decentralized distributed MIMO (DD-MIMO) systems. With the ever-increasing demand for high data rates and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Mostafa Rahmani , Junbo Zhao , Vida Ranjbar , Ahmed Al-Tahmeesschi , Hamed Ahmadi , Sofie Pollin , Alister G. Burr

To ensure coherent signal processing across distributed Access Points (APs) in Cell-Free Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (CF-mMIMO) systems, a fronthaul connection between the APs and a Central Processor (CP) is imperative. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Sangwon Jo , Hoon Lee , Seok-Hwan Park

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a key technology for next-generation wireless systems. The integration of cell-free massive MIMO within the open radio access network (O-RAN) architecture addresses the growing need…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Mohammad Hossein Shokouhi , Vincent W. S. Wong

Cell-free massive MIMO has matured into a key candidate technology for 6G and beyond, owing to its ability to provide nearly uniform service quality to many user equipments (UEs) over the same time-frequency resources. Unlike conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Salih Gümüşbuğa

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

Coarsely 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 (MUI) and the quantization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Hela Jedda , Amine Mezghani , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Josef A. Nossek

We investigate the energy efficiency performance of cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), where the access points (APs) are connected to a central processing unit (CPU) via limited-capacity links. Thanks to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Manijeh Bashar , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Alister G. Burr , Hien Quoc Ngo , Erik G. Larsson , Pei Xiao

In massive MIMO systems, fully digital precoding offers high performance but has significant implementation complexity and energy consumption, particularly at millimeter frequencies and beyond. Hybrid analog-digital architectures provide a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Parisa Ramezani , Alva Kosasih , Emil Björnson

Configuring the hybrid precoders and combiners in a millimeter wave (mmWave) multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system is challenging in frequency selective channels. In this paper, we develop a system that uses…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 J. P. González-Coma , J. Rodríguez-Fernández , N. González-Prelcic , L. Castedo , R. W. Heath

Cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is expected to be one of the key technologies in sixth-generation (6G) and beyond wireless communications, offering enhanced spectral efficiency for cell-edge user equipments by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Salih Gümüsbuğa , Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tuğfe Demir

This paper investigates the compress-and-forward scheme for an uplink cloud radio access network (C-RAN) model, where multi-antenna base-stations (BSs) are connected to a cloud-computing based central processor (CP) via capacity-limited…

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