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Power allocation is an important task in wireless communication networks. Classical optimization algorithms and deep learning methods, while effective in small and static scenarios, become either computationally demanding or unsuitable for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Irched Chafaa , Giacomo Bacci , Luca Sanguinetti

Cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is expected to be one of the key technologies in sixth-generation (6G) and beyond wireless communications, offering enhanced spectral efficiency for cell-edge user equipments by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Salih Gümüsbuğa , Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tuğfe Demir

Cell-Free Massive MIMO (CF mMIMO) has emerged as a potential enabler for future networks. It has been shown that these networks are much more energy-efficient than classical cellular systems when they are serving users at peak capacity.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Robbert Beerten , Vida Ranjbar , Andrea P. Guevara , Hazem Sallouha , Sofie Pollin

This paper considers the fundamental power allocation problem in cell-free massive mutiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems which aims at maximizing the total energy efficiency (EE) under a sum power constraint at each access point…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Trang C. Mai , Hien Quoc Ngo , Le-Nam Tran

This paper proposes the utilization of cell-free massive MIMO (CF-M-MIMO) processing on top of the regular micro/macrocellular deployments typically found in current 5G networks. Towards this end, it contemplates the connection of all base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-13 F. Riera-Palou , G. Femenias , D. López-Pérez , N. Piovesan , A. De Domenico

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) offers significant advantages in mobility scenarios, mainly due to the elimination of cell boundaries and strong macro diversity. In this paper, we examine the downlink performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Ziheng Liu , Jiayi Zhang , Yiyang Zhu , Enyu Shi , Bo Ai

Massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) uses a very large number of low-power transmit antennas to serve much smaller numbers of users. The most widely proposed type of massive MIMO transmit beamforming is zero-forcing, which is based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Long D. Nguyen , Hoang D. Tuan , Trung Q. Duong , H. Vincent Poor

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

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

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

We consider transmission of system information in a cell-free massive MIMO system, when the transmitting access points do not have any channel state information and the receiving terminal has to estimate the channel based on downlink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Marcus Karlsson , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

We study support for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications through a cell-free massive MIMO architecture. Under the general assumption that the propagation channel between the mobile stations, either UAVs or ground users, and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-12 Carmen D'Andrea , Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez , Giovanni Geraci , Lorenzo Galati Giordano , Stefano Buzzi

This paper seeks to determine the most efficient uplink technique for cell-free massive MIMO systems. Despite offering great advances, existing works suffer from fragmented methodologies and inconsistent assumptions (e.g., single- vs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

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

Cell-free Massive MIMO systems consist of a large number of geographically distributed access points (APs) that serve users by coherent joint transmission. Downlink power allocation is important in these systems, to determine which APs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Sucharita Chakraborty , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

We investigate the energy efficiency performance of cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), where the access points (APs) are connected to a central processing unit (CPU) via limited-capacity links. Thanks to the…

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

This work addresses the challenge of minimizing the energy consumption of a wireless communication network by joint optimization of the base station transmit power and the cell activity. A mixed-integer nonlinear optimization problem is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Florian Bahlke , Marius Pesavento

This paper considers a mobile edge computing-enabled cell-free massive MIMO wireless network. An optimization problem for the joint allocation of uplink powers and remote computational resources is formulated, aimed at minimizing the total…

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

Assume that a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system must be designed to cover a given area with maximal energy efficiency (bit/Joule). What are the optimal values for the number of antennas, active users, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti , Jakob Hoydis , Mérouane Debbah

Multi-user Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) offers big advantages over conventional point-to-point MIMO: it works with cheap single-antenna terminals, a rich scattering environment is not required, and resource allocation is simplified…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Erik G. Larsson , Ove Edfors , Fredrik Tufvesson , Thomas L. Marzetta