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Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is a key emerging 6G technology. Despite progress, ISAC still lacks scalable methods for joint AP clustering and user/target scheduling in distributed deployments under fronthaul limits. Moreover,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Mehdi Zafari , A. Lee Swindlehurst

As integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) becomes an integral part of 6G networks, distributed ISAC (DISAC) is expected to enhance both sensing and communication performance through its decentralized architecture. This paper presents a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Yingjie Xu , Xuesong Cai , Michiel Sandra , Sara Willhammar , Fredrik Tufvesson

Global optimization of access point (AP) assignment to user terminals requires efficient monitoring of user behavior, fast decision algorithms, efficient control signaling, and fast AP reassignment mechanisms. In this scenario, software…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Pablo Fondo-Ferreiro , Saber Mhiri , Cristina López-Bravo , Francisco Javier González-Castaño , Felipe Gil-Castiñeira

In this paper, we present optimization approaches for Access Point (AP) location and frequency assignment, two major planning tasks in deploying Wi-Fi networks. Since APs are relatively cheap, the major concern is network performance. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-01-27 Sandro Bosio , Di Yuan

We study support for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications through a cell-free massive MIMO architecture, wherein a large number of access points (APs) is deployed in place of large co-located massive MIMO arrays. We consider also a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Carmen D'Andrea , Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez , Giovanni Geraci , Lorenzo Galati Giordano , Stefano Buzzi

A scalable framework is developed to allocate radio resources across a large number of densely deployed small cells with given traffic statistics on a slow timescale. Joint user association and spectrum allocation is first formulated as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Binnan Zhuang , Dongning Guo , Ermin Wei , Michael L. Honig

This paper studies an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system within a centralized cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) network for target detection. ISAC transmit access points serve the user equipments in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zinat Behdad , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Ki Won Sung , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system with joint unicast and multi-group multicast transmissions. We derive exact closed-form expressions for the downlink achievable spectral efficiency (SE) of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Mustafa S. Abbas , Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

Recently, the so-called cell-free (CF) Massive MIMO architecture has been introduced, wherein a very large number of distributed access points (APs) simultaneously and jointly serve a much smaller number of mobile stations (MSs). The paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Alessio Zappone

We consider the distributed uplink resource allocation problem in a multi-carrier wireless network with multiple access points (APs). Each mobile user can optimize its own transmission rate by selecting a suitable AP and by controlling its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Mingyi Hong , Alfredo Garcia , Jorge Barrera , Stephen G. Wilson

Cell-free massive MIMO communications is an emerging network technology for 5G wireless communications wherein distributed multi-antenna access points (APs) serve many users simultaneously. Most prior work on cell-free massive MIMO systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Asmaa Abdallah , Mohammad M. Mansour

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is emerging as a key enabler for 6G wireless networks, allowing the joint use of spectrum and infrastructure for both communication and sensing. While prior ISAC solutions have addressed resource…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Mehdi Zafari , Rang Liu , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Cell-free communication has the potential to significantly improve grant-free transmission in massive machine-type communication, wherein multiple access points jointly serve a large number of user equipments to improve coverage and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Gangle Sun , Mengyao Cao , Wenjin Wang , Wei Xu , Christoph Studer

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

With the increasing number of user equipment (UE) and data demands, denser access points (APs) are being employed. Resource allocation problems have been extensively researched with interference treated as noise. It is well understood that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Jing Li , Dongning Guo

Cell-free integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems are facing the resource allocation challenges due to the deployment of access points (APs) and conflicting beamforming requirements between the communication and sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Jijin Guo , Lixin Li , Yufeng Zheng , Dongwei Zhao , Wensheng Lin , Zhu Han

In this letter, we propose an energy-efficient 3-dimensional placement of multiple aerial access points (AAPs), in the desired area, acting as flying base stations for uplink communication from a set of ground user equipment (UE). The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-14 Nithin Babu , Constantinos B. Papadias , Petar Popovski

In this paper, we propose a scheme for the joint optimization of the user transmit power and the antenna selection at the access points (AP)s of a user-centric cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (UC CF-mMIMO) system. We derive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Shashank Shekhar , Athira Subhash , Muralikrishnan Srinivasan , Sheetal Kalyani

This paper studies joint spectrum allocation and user association in large heterogeneous cellular networks. The objective is to maximize some network utility function based on given traffic statistics collected over a slow timescale,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Binnan Zhuang , Dongning Guo , Ermin Wei , Michael L. Honig

We study a heterogeneous two-tier wireless sensor network in which N heterogeneous access points (APs) collect sensing data from densely distributed sensors and then forward the data to M heterogeneous fusion centers (FCs). This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Saeed Karimi-Bidhendi , Jun Guo , Hamid Jafarkhani