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Multi-tier networks with large-array base stations (BSs) that are able to operate in the "massive MIMO" regime are envisioned to play a key role in meeting the exploding wireless traffic demands. Operated over small cells with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Qiaoyang Ye , Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu , Haralabos C. Papadopoulos

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

In the evolution of 6th Generation (6G) technology, the emergence of cell-free networking presents a paradigm shift, revolutionizing user experiences within densely deployed networks where distributed access points collaborate. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Dieter Verbruggen , Hazem Sallouha , Sofie Pollin

One main goal of 5G-and-beyond systems is to simultaneously serve many users, each having a requested spectral efficiency (SE), in an energy-efficient way. The network capacity cannot always satisfy all the SE requirements, for example,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Hien Quoc Ngo

In this paper, we investigate a cell-free massive MIMO system with both access points (APs) and user equipments (UEs) equipped with multiple antennas over jointly-correlated Rayleigh fading channels. We study four uplink implementations,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Zhe Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Bo Ai , Chau Yuen , Mérouane Debbah

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

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising cellular network. In this network, a large number of distributed and multi-antenna access points (APs) jointly serve many single antenna users using the same…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-30 Deokhwan Han , Jeonghun Park , Namyoon Lee

The canonical setup is the primary approach adopted in cell-free multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks, in which all access points (APs) jointly serve every user equipment (UE). This approach is not scalable in terms of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Ala Eddine Nouali , Mohamed Sana , Jean-Paul Jamont

In this paper, we investigate the performance of cell-free massive MIMO systems with massive connectivity. With the generalized approximate message passing (GAMP) algorithm, we obtain the minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) estimate of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Mangqing Guo , M. Cenk Gursoy

The physical layer foundations of cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) have been well-established. As a next step, researchers are investigating practical and energy-efficient network implementations. This paper focuses on multiple sets of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Lianet Méndez-Monsanto , Nicola Bastianello , Emma Fitzgerald , Gilles Callebaut

This paper investigates new efficient transmission architectures for multi-satellite massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). We study the weighted sum-rate maximization problem in a multi-satellite system where multiple satellites…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Wenjing Cao , Yafei Wang , Jinshuo Zhang , Xiaofan Xu , Wenjin Wang , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

Co-channel interference poses a challenge in any wireless communication network where the time-frequency resources are reused over different geographical areas. The interference is particularly diverse in cell-free massive multiple-input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Mahmoud Zaher , Emil Björnson , Marina Petrova

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 develop two distributed downlink resource allocation algorithms for user-centric, cell-free, spatially-distributed, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks. In such networks, each user is served by a subset of nearby transmitters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Hussein A. Ammar , Raviraj Adve , Shahram Shahbazpanahi , Gary Boudreau , Kothapalli Venkata Srinivas

Massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) has evolved along two tracks: cellular and cell-free, each with unique advantages and limitations. The cellular approach suffers from worse user spectral efficiency at cell edges, whereas the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

In this paper, we investigate the amalgamation of cell-free (CF) and extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) technologies, referred to as a CF XL-MIMO, as a promising advancement for enabling future mobile networks.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ziheng Liu , Jiayi Zhang , Zhilong Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

It is envisioned that the next generations of wireless communication environment will be characterized with dense traffic demand due to the prediction that there will be large numbers of active users. Hence, it is important to find a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Ziad Qais Al-Abbasi

Cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output is considered a promising technology for the next generation of wireless communication networks. The main idea is to distribute a large number of access points (APs) in a geographical region…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Andreas Angelou , Pourya Behmandpoor , Marc Moonen

Cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is considered, where distributed access points (APs) multiply the received signal by the conjugate of the estimated channel, and send back a quantized version of this weighted signal…

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

The large number of antennas in massive MIMO systems allows the base station to communicate with multiple users at the same time and frequency resource with multi-user beamforming. However, highly correlated user channels could drastically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Qing An , Santiago Segarra , Chris Dick , Ashutosh Sabharwal , Rahman Doost-Mohammady