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Massive MIMO opens up attractive possibilities for next generation wireless systems with its large number of antennas offering spatial diversity and multiplexing gain. However, the fronthaul link that connects a massive MIMO Remote Radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Aswathylakshmi P , Radha Krishna Ganti

We investigate the physical layer (PHY) spectral efficiency and fronthaul network load of a scalable user-centric cell-free massive MIMO system. Each user-centric cluster processor responsible for cluster-level signal processing is located…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Fabian Göttsch , Max Franke , Arash Pourdamghani , Giuseppe Caire , Stefan Schmid

The cost and limited capacity of fronthaul links pose significant challenges for the deployment of ultra-dense networks (UDNs), specifically for cell-free massive MIMO systems. Hence, cost-effective planning of reliable fronthaul networks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Anas S. Mohammed , Hussein A. Ammar , Krishnendu S. Tharakan , Hesham ElSawy , Hossam S. Hassanein

A novel architecture for MIMO transmission and reception of filterbank multicarrier (FBMC) modulated signals under strong frequency selectivity is presented. The proposed system seeks to approximate an ideal frequency-selective precoder and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Xavier Mestre , David Gregoratti

We consider a practical spatially correlated reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) system with multi-antenna access points (APs) over spatially correlated Rician fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Enyu Shi , Jiayi Zhang , Zhe Wang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

We propose a distributed implementation for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) backed by a massive multiple input multiple output (CF-mMIMO) architecture without cells. Distributed multi-antenna access points (APs) simultaneously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Mohamed Elfiatoure , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Hyundong Shin , Michail Matthaiou

Modular extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) architectures combined with wireless fronthaul provide a scalable alternative to monolithic arrays, but their performance is sensitive to hardware impairments and resource allocation strategies.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Özlem Tuğfe Demir

We consider a dynamic time division duplex (DTDD) enabled cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system, where each half-duplex (HD) access point (AP) is scheduled to operate in the uplink (UL) or downlink (DL) mode…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-24 Anubhab Chowdhury , Ribhu Chopra , Chandra R. Murthy

We consider a multi-cell massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system with correlated Rayleigh fading channels, where pilot reuse is permitted within each cell (to reduce pilot overhead), and each base station (BS) utilizes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Masoud Elyasi , Azadeh Vosoughi

Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems aim to expand the coverage area of wireless networks by replacing a single high-performance Access Point (AP) with multiple small, distributed APs connected to a Central Processing Unit (CPU) through a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Michail Gkagkos , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Costas N. Georghiades , Krishna R. Narayanan

In a centralized RAN, the signals from multiple RAPs are processed centrally in a data center. Centralized RAN enables advanced interference coordination strategies while leveraging the elastic provisioning of data processing resources. It…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Peter Rost , Salvatore Talarico , Matthew C. Valenti

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

Multi-Cell (MC) systems are present in mobile network operations from the first generation to the fifth generation of wireless networks, and considers the signals of all users to a base station (BS) centered in a cell. Cell-Free (CF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-04 E. F. de Almeida , R. C. de Lamare

In network MIMO cellular systems, subsets of base stations (BSs), or remote radio heads, are connected via backhaul links to central units (CUs) that perform joint encoding in the downlink and joint decoding in the uplink. Focusing on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-24 Jinkyu Kang , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang , Shlomo Shamai

In this work, we consider the uplink of a scalable cell-free massive MIMO system where the users are served only by a subset of access points (APs) in the network. The APs are physically grouped into predetermined "cell-centric clusters",…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Carmen D'Andrea , Erik G. Larsson

We present a general framework for the characterization of the packet error probability achievable in cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) architectures deployed to support ultra-reliable low-latency (URLLC) traffic. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Alejandro Lancho , Giuseppe Durisi , Luca Sanguinetti

This paper investigates the compress-and-forward scheme for an uplink cloud radio access network (C-RAN) model, where multi-antenna base-stations (BSs) are connected to a cloud-computing based central processor (CP) via capacity-limited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Yuhan Zhou , Yinfei Xu , Wei Yu , Jun Chen

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output is a potential candidate for future networks with pervasive connectivity by utilizing coherent joint transmission and distributed antenna arrays. This paper studies the exploitation of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Trinh Van Chien , Bui Trong Duc , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

Massive multiple-inputmultiple-output (MIMO) systems, dense small-cells (SCs), and full duplex are three candidate techniques for next-generation communication systems. The cooperation of next-generation techniques could offer more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Boyu Li , Dengkui Zhu , Ping Liang

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