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A Cell-Free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system comprises a very large number of distributed access points (APs)which simultaneously serve a much smaller number of users over the same time/frequency resources based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Hien Quoc Ngo , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang , Erik G. Larsson , Thomas L. Marzetta

In this letter, we propose to employ movable antenna (MA) to enhance covert communications with noise uncertainty, where the confidential data is transmitted from an MA-aided access point (AP) to multiple users with a warden attempting to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Haobin Mao , Xiangyu Pi , Lipeng Zhu , Zhenyu Xiao , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang

Six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) is an innovative technology to improve wireless network capacity by adjusting 3D positions and 3D rotations of antenna surfaces based on channel spatial distribution. However, the existing works on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang , Qijun Jiang , Jihong Park , Tony Q. S. Quek , Robert Schober

Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) has recently gained a lot of attention due to its high potential in sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems. The goal of this paper is to first present a unified modeling for massive MIMO,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

Cell-free Massive MIMO is considered as a promising technology for satisfying the increasing number of users and high rate expectations in beyond-5G networks. The key idea is to let many distributed access points (APs) communicate with all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

Ubiquitous cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) combines massive MIMO technology and user-centric transmission in a distributed architecture. All the access points (APs) in the network cooperate to jointly and coherently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Giovanni Interdonato , Pål Frenger , Erik G. Larsson

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising technology for next-generation communication systems. This work proposes a novel partially coherent (PC) transmission framework to cope with the challenge of phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Unnikrishnan Kunnath Ganesan , Tung Thanh Vu , Erik G. Larsson

Six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) is a promising technology to fully exploit spatial variation in wireless channels by allowing flexible adjustment of three-dimensional (3D) positions and rotations of antennas at the transceiver. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Qijun Jiang , Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang

Full-duplex communication substantially enhances spectral efficiency by enabling simultaneous transmission and reception on the same time-frequency resources. However, its practical deployment remains hindered by strong residual…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Ayda Nodel Hokmabadi , Chadi Assi

Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) is a key enabling technique for sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems due to its powerful interference management, and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) improves communication performance by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Mingyu Hu , Nan Liu , Wei Kang

Contrary to conventional massive MIMO cellular configurations plagued by inter-cell interference, cell-free massive MIMO systems distribute network resources across the coverage area, enabling users to connect with multiple access points…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Giovanni Di Gennaro , Amedeo Buonanno , Gianmarco Romano , Stefano Buzzi , Francesco A. N Palmieri

Cell-Free Massive Multiple-input Multiple-output (mMIMO) consists of many access points (APs) in a coverage area that jointly serve the users. These systems can significantly reduce the interference among the users compared to conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Abbas Khalili , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

Contemporary wireless communication systems rely on Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) techniques. In such systems, each Access Point (AP) is equipped with multiple antenna elements and serves multiple devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Eduardo Noboro Tominaga , Onel Luis Alcaraz López , Tommy Svensson , Richard Demo Souza , Hirley Alves

This letter proposes a hybrid mechanically and electronically tunable six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) base station (BS) architecture for future wireless communication networks. Such BS consists of multiple antenna arrays that are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yuyan Zhou , Haocheng Hua , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

The Fifth-Generation (5G) wireless communications networks introduced native support for Machine-Type Communications (MTC) use cases. Nevertheless, current 5G networks cannot fully meet the very stringent requirements regarding latency,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-03 Eduardo Noboro Tominaga , Onel Luis Alcaraz López , Tommy Svensson , Richard Demo Souza , Hirley Alves

Movable antennas (MAs) are a promising paradigm to enhance the spatial degrees of freedom of conventional multi-antenna systems by flexibly adapting the positions of the antenna elements within a given transmit area. In this paper, we model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yifei Wu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wolfgang Gerstacker , Robert Schober

The paper proposes a new architecture for Distributed MIMO (D-MIMO) in which the base station (BS) jointly transmits with wireless mobile nodes to serve users (UEs) within a cell for 6G communication systems. The novelty of the architecture…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Kumar Sai Bondada , Daniel J. Jakubisin , Karim Said , R. Michael Buehrer , Lingjia Liu

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

A novel multiuser communication system with movable antennas (MAs) is proposed, where the antenna position optimization is exploited to enhance the downlink sum-rate. The joint optimization of the transmit beamforming vector and transmit MA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Jianchi Zhu , Chongjun Ouyang

6G networks require a flexible infrastructure to dynamically provide ubiquitous network coverage. Mobile Access Points (MAP) deployment is a promising solution. In this paper, we formulate the joint 3D MAP deployment and user association…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Esteban Catté , Mohamed Sana , Mickael Maman