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Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) has recently gained much attention for its potential in shaping the landscape of sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems. This paper proposes a hierarchical network architecture tailored for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

In recent years and with introduction of 5G cellular network and communication, researchers have shown great interest in Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communication, an advanced technology. Many studies have examined the problem of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-27 Amirsadegh Roshanzamir

Cell-free networks outperform cellular networks in many aspects, yet their efficiency is affected by imperfect channel state information (CSI). In order to address this issue, this work presents a robust resource allocation framework…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-20 S. Mashdour , A. Flores , R. C. de Lamare

Next generation cellular networks will experience the combination of femtocells, millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communications and massive antenna arrays. Thanks to the beamforming capability as well as the high angular resolution provided by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Davide Dardari

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, which exploit many geographically distributed access points to coherently serve user equipments via spatial multiplexing on the same time-frequency resource, has become a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Bo Ai , Mérouane Debbah , Khaled B. Letaief

Due to shorter range communication becoming more prevalent with the development of multiple-input, multiple-output antennas (MIMO) and millimeter wave communications, multi-hop, intra-cell communication is anticipated to play a major role…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-14 Alexander P. Kartun-Giles

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) offers significant advantages in mobility scenarios, mainly due to the elimination of cell boundaries and strong macro diversity. In this paper, we examine the downlink performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Ziheng Liu , Jiayi Zhang , Yiyang Zhu , Enyu Shi , Bo Ai

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is one of the usage scenarios for the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks. In this paper, we study cooperative ISAC in cell-free multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Zihuan Wang , Vincent W. S. Wong

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

In a multi-service network such as ATM, adaptive data services(such as ABR) share the bandwidth unused by higher priority services. The network indicates to the ABR sources the fair and efficient rates at which they should transmit to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Sonia Fahmy , Raj Jain , Shivkumar Kalyanaraman , Rohit Goyal , Bobby Vandalore

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is envisioned as a key feature in future wireless communications networks. Its integration with massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) techniques promises to leverage substantial spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Hieu V. Nguyen , Hien Quoc Ngo , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Markku Juntti

This paper develops a graph-based hybrid beamforming framework for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) cell-free integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks. Specifically, we construct a novel MIMO cell-free ISAC network model.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Yanan Du , Sai Xu , Jagmohan Chauhan

This paper investigates multi-target position estimation in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) architectures, where orthogonal time frequency and space (OTFS) is used as an integrated sensing and communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yifei Fan , Shaochuan Wu , Haojie Wang , Mingjun Sun , Jianhe Wang

Multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) systems promise enormous capacity increase and are being considered as one of the key technologies for future wireless networks. However, the decrease in capacity due to the presence of interferers in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-28 Marco Chiani , Moe Z. Win , Hyundong Shin

Cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is a promising network architecture for beyond 5G systems, which can particularly offer more uniform data rates across the coverage area. Recent works have shown how reconfigurable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

This paper studies the degrees of freedom of full-duplex multicell networks that share the spectrum among multiple cells in a non-orthogonal setting. In the considered network, we assume that {\em full-duplex} base stations with multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Sung Ho Chae , Sang-Woon Jeon , Sung Hoon Lim

We study multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) based downlink heterogeneous cellular network (HetNets) with joint transmit-receive diversity using orthogonal space-time block codes at the base stations (BSs) and maximal-ratio combining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Ralph Tanbourgi , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Friedrich K. Jondral

Heterogeneous networks have a key role in the design of future mobile communication networks, since the employment of small cells around a macrocell enhances the network's efficiency and decreases complexity and power demand. Moreover,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-02 Vaia Kalokidou , Oliver Johnson , Robert Piechocki

This paper considers a cell-free integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) MIMO system, where distributed MIMO access points (APs) jointly serve the communication users and sense the target. For this setup, we derive a sensing SNR for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Umut Demirhan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

In practical mobile communication engineering applications, surfaces of antenna array deployment regions are usually uneven. Therefore, massive multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) communication systems usually transmit wireless signals by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Xiaohu Ge , Ran Zi , Haichao Wang , Jing Zhang , Minho Jo