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In future cell-free (or cell-less) wireless networks, a large number of devices in a geographical area will be served simultaneously in non-orthogonal multiple access scenarios by a large number of distributed access points (APs), which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Yasser Al-Eryani , Mohamed Akrout , Ekram Hossain

This paper considers the sum spectral efficiency (SE) optimization problem in multi-cell Massive MIMO systems with a varying number of active users. This is formulated as a joint pilot and data power control problem. Since the problem is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Trinh Van Chien , Thuong Nguyen Canh , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Two key traits of 5G cellular networks are much higher base station (BS) densities - especially in the case of low-power BSs - and the use of massive MIMO at these BSs. This paper explores how massive MIMO can be used to jointly maximize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Qiaoyang Ye , Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu , Haralabos C. Papadopoulos , Constantine Caramanis , Jeffrey G. Andrews

We derive a fast and optimal algorithm for solving practical weighted max-min SINR problems in cell-free massive MIMO networks. For the first time, the optimization problem jointly covers long-term power control and distributed beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Lorenzo Miretti , Renato Luis Garrido Cavalcante , Slawomir Stanczak

This letter proposes a multi-stream selection framework for \ac{CF-MIMO} networks. Partially coherent transmission has been considered by clustering \acp{AP} into phase-aligned clusters to address the challenges of phase misalignment and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Esra Aycan Beyazıt , Jeroen Famaey , Nina Slamnik-Kriještorac , Johann M. Marquez-Barja , Miguel Camelo Botero

Clustered cell-free networking, which dynamically partitions the whole network into nonoverlapping subnetworks, has been recently proposed to mitigate the cell-edge problem in cellular networks. However, prior works only focused on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Junyuan Wang , Tianyao Wu , Ouyang Zhou , Yaping Zhu

Future wireless networks need to support massive machine type communication (mMTC) where a massive number of devices accesses the network and massive MIMO is a promising enabling technology. Massive access schemes have been studied for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Unnikrishnan Kunnath Ganesan , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

In cell-free massive MIMO systems with multiple distributed access points (APs) serving multiple users over the same time-frequency resources, downlink beamforming is done through spatial precoding. Precoding vectors can be optimally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Mehdi Zafari , Divyanshu Pandey , Rahman Doost-Mohammady , César A. Uribe

We consider the interference management problem in a multicell MIMO heterogenous network. Within each cell there are a large number of distributed micro/pico base stations (BSs) that can be potentially coordinated for joint transmission. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Mingyi Hong , Ruo-Yu Sun , Hadi Baligh , Zhi-Quan Luo

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

Cell-free Massive MIMO systems consist of a large number of geographically distributed access points (APs) that serve users by coherent joint transmission. Downlink power allocation is important in these systems, to determine which APs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Sucharita Chakraborty , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

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

Traditional cellular networks struggle with poor quality of service (QoS) for cell-edge users, while cell-free (CF) systems offer uniform QoS but incur high roll-out costs due to acquiring numerous access point (AP) sites and deploying a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

In this work, we analyze the downlink performance of a cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output system with finite capacity fronthaul links between the centralized baseband units and the access point (APs). Conditioned on the user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Priyabrata Parida , Harpreet S. Dhillon

We consider the cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink, where a very large number of distributed multiple-antenna access points (APs) serve many single-antenna users in the same time-frequency resource. A simple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Hien Quoc Ngo , Le-Nam Tran , Trung Q. Duong , Michail Matthaiou , Erik G. Larsson

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

Cell-free Massive MIMO (mMIMO) is envisaged to be a next-generation technology beyond 5G with its high spectral efficiency and superior spatial diversity as compared to that of conventional MIMO technology. The main principle is that many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Zakir Hussain Shaik , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems represent a promising approach to increase the spectral efficiency of wireless communication systems. However, near-optimal beamforming solutions require a large amount of signaling exchange between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-08 Hamed Hojatian , Jeremy Nadal , Jean-Francois Frigon , Francois Leduc-Primeau

Cellular communication is a widely used technology in the world where the coverage area is divided into multiple cells. Interference is one of the most important challenges in cellular networks which causes problems by reducing the quality…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Marzieh Arasteh , Narges Yarahmadi Gharaei , Mehrdad Ardebilipour

In this letter, we consider the uplink of a cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network where each user is decoded by a subset of access points (APs). An additional step is introduced in the cell-free Massive MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Carmen D'Andrea , Erik G. Larsson