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Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) has emerged as a prominent candidate for future networks due to its ability to significantly enhance spectral efficiency by eliminating inter-cell interference. However, its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yukun Ma , Jiayi Zhang , Ziheng Liu , Guowei Shi , Bo Ai

This letter presents and analyzes orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)-based multi-carrier transmission for cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (CFmMIMO) over frequency-selective fading channels. Frequency-domain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

Multicasting is the general method of conveying the same information to multiple users over a broadcast channel. In this work, the Gaussian MIMO broadcast channel is considered, with multiple users and any number of antennas at each node. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-31 Idan Livni , Anatoly Khina , Ayal Hitron , Uri Erez

This paper proposes the utilization of cell-free massive MIMO (CF-M-MIMO) processing on top of the regular micro/macrocellular deployments typically found in current 5G networks. Towards this end, it contemplates the connection of all base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-13 F. Riera-Palou , G. Femenias , D. López-Pérez , N. Piovesan , A. De Domenico

A multicarrier-division duplex (MDD)-based cell-free (CF) scheme, namely MDD-CF, is proposed, which enables downlink (DL) data and uplink (UL) data or pilots to be concurrently transmitted on mutually orthogonal subcarriers in distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Bohan Li , Lie-Liang Yang , Robert G. Maunder , Songlin Sun , Pei Xiao

Multiuser multiple-input multiple-output wireless communications systems have the potential to satisfy the performance requirements of fifth-generation and future wireless networks. In this context, cell-free (CF) systems, where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-06 André Flores , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Kumar Vijay Mishra

We consider a two-way half-duplex decode-and-forward (DF) relaying system with multiple pairs of single-antenna users assisted by a cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) architecture with multiple-antenna access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Anastasios K. Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas , John M. Senior

Massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) uses a very large number of low-power transmit antennas to serve much smaller numbers of users. The most widely proposed type of massive MIMO transmit beamforming is zero-forcing, which is based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Long D. Nguyen , Hoang D. Tuan , Trung Q. Duong , H. Vincent Poor

Hybrid precoders and combiners are designed for cooperative cell-free multi-user millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) cellular networks for low complexity interference mitigation. Initially, we derive an optimal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Meesam Jafri , Suraj Srivastava , Naveen K. D. Venkategowda , Aditya K. Jagannatham , Lajos Hanzo

A cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system is considered for enhancing the monitoring performance of wireless surveillance, where a large number of distributed multi-antenna aided legitimate monitoring nodes (MNs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou , Lajos Hanzo

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) provides a ubiquitous coverage to user equipments (UEs) but it is also susceptible to interference. Ratesplitting (RS) effectively extracts data by decoding interference, yet its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Octavia A. Dobre , Bo Ai

We consider a downlink multicast and unicast superposition transmission in multi-layer Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) systems when only the statistical channel state information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yong Jin Daniel Kim , David Vargas

We address the problem of analyzing and classifying in groups the downlink channel environment in a millimeter-wavelength cell, accounting for path loss, multipath fading, and User Equipment (UE) blocking, by employing a hybrid propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Thomas Ketseoglou , Matthew. C. Valenti , Ender Ayanoglu

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

Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (CFmMIMO) offers uniform service quality through distributed access points (APs), yet unresolved issues remain. This paper proposes a heterogeneous system design that goes beyond the original…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

Application of filter bank multicarrier (FBMC) as an effective method for signaling over massive MIMO channels has been recently proposed. This paper further expands the application of FBMC to massive MIMO by applying frequency spreading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Amir Aminjavaheri , Arman Farhang , Nicola Marchetti , Linda E. Doyle , Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny

Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (mMIMO) is one of the essential technologies introduced by the Fifth Generation (5G) of wireless communication systems. However, although mMIMO provides many benefits for wireless communications, it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Eduardo Noboro Tominaga , Onel Luiz Alcaraz López , Hirley Alves , Richard Demo Souza , Leonardo Terças

In many wireless communication applications, it is desirable to transmit the same data to multiple user equipments (UEs). Physical layer multicasting presents an efficient transmission topology to exploit the beamforming capabilities at the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Mahmoud Zaher , Emil Björnson , Marina Petrova

In this paper, a new multi-cell MMSE precoder is proposed for massive MIMO systems. We consider a multi-cell network where each cell has $K$ users and $B$ orthogonal pilot sequences are available, with $B = \beta K$ and $\beta \ge 1$ being…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Xueru Li , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson , Shidong Zhou , Jing Wang

This paper studies a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) proactive monitoring system in which multiple multi-antenna monitoring nodes (MNs) are assigned to either observe the transmissions from an untrusted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Isabella W. G. da Silva , Zahra Mobini , Hien Q. Ngo , Hyundong Shin , Michail Matthaiou