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In the downlink of a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system, spectral efficiency gains critically rely on joint coherent transmission, as all access points (APs) must align their transmitted signals in phase at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Marx M. M. Freitas , Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi

In this paper, we investigate the spatial-wideband effects in cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems in mmWave bands. The utilization of mmWave frequencies brings challenges such as signal attenuation and the need for denser networks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Seyoung Ahn , Soohyeong Kim , Yongseok Kwon , Joohan Park , Jiseung Youn , Sunghyun Cho

In this paper, we analyze the achievable downlink spectral efficiency of cell-free massive multiple input multiple output (CF-mMIMO) systems, accounting for the effects of channel aging (caused by user mobility) and pilot contamination. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Abhinav Anand , Chandra R. Murthy , Ribhu Chopra

This paper introduces a practical precoding method for the downlink of Filter Bank Multicarrier-based (FBMC-based) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The proposed method comprises a two-stage precoder, consisting of a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-20 Hamed Hosseiny , Arman Farhang , Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny

This letter investigates the use of differential space-time block coding (DSTBC) to address antenna array calibration impairments at multi-antenna user equipment (UE) in the downlink (DL) of cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Marx M. M. Freitas , Stefano Buzzi

In the cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) system, the centralized transmission scheme is widely adopted to manage the inter-user interference. Unfortunately, its implementation is limited by the extensive signaling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Hongkang Yu , Xinquan Ye , Yijian Chen

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

In this paper, a novel optimization model for joint beamforming and power control in the downlink (DL) of a cell-free massive MIMO (CFmMIMO) system is presented. The objective of the proposed optimization model is to minimize the maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Mohamed Elwekeil , Alessio Zappone , Stefano Buzzi

This paper considers the uplink of user-centric cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems. We utilize the user-centric dynamic cooperation clustering (DCC) framework and derive the achievable spectral efficiency with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

In this work, an efficient precoding design scheme is proposed for downlink cell-free distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (DM-MIMO) filter bank multi-carrier (FBMC) systems with asynchronous reception and highly frequency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Yuhao Qi , Jian Dang , Zaichen Zhang , Liang Wu , Yongpeng Wu

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is considered as a promising technology for achieving the ultimate performance limit. However, due to its distributed architecture and low-cost access points (APs), the signals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jiakang Zheng , Zhuoyi Zhao , Jiayi Zhang , Julian Cheng , Victor C. M. Leung

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

This paper considers a cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) system using conjugate beamforming (CB) with fractional-exponent normalization. Assuming independent Rayleigh fading channels, a generalized closed-form expression for the achievable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) systems serve the user equipments (UEs) by geographically distributed access points (APs) by means of joint transmission and reception. To limit the power consumption due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Shuaifei Chen , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Bo Ai

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems represent a deeply investigated evolution from the conventional multicell co-located massive MIMO (MC-mMIMO) network deployments. Anticipating a gradual integration of CF-mMIMO systems alongside…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Li Wang , Ahmet Hasim Gokceoglu , Gunnar Peters

In this paper, we consider the uplink channel estimation phase and downlink data transmission phase of cell-free millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with low-capacity fronthaul links and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-01 In-soo Kim , Mehdi Bennis , Junil Choi

In this letter, we analyze the performance of mixed coherent and non-coherent transmissions approach, which can improve the performance of cell-free multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CF mMIMO-OFDM)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Guoyu Li , Shaochuan Wu , Changsheng You , Wenbin Zhang , Guanyu Shang

In this paper, a practical precoding method for the downlink of filter bank multicarrier-based (FBMC-based) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is developed. The proposed method includes a two-stage precoder consisting of a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-27 Hamed Hosseiny , Arman Farhang , Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny

Cell-Free (CF) Massive multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO) is a distributed antenna system, wherein a large number of back-haul linked access points randomly distributed over a coverage area serve simultaneously a smaller number of users.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Salah Eddine Hajri , Juwendo Denis , Mohamad Assaad

In this paper, we investigate the impact of channel aging on the performance of cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with pilot contamination. To take into account the channel aging effect due to user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai
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