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We study internet of things (IoT) systems supported by cell-free (CF) massive MIMO (mMIMO) with optimal linear channel estimation. For the uplink, we consider optimal linear MIMO receiver and obtain an uplink SINR approximation involving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Hangsong Yan , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

Cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) enhances spectral and energy efficiency compared to conventional cellular networks by enabling joint transmission and reception across a large number of distributed access points…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) systems are expected to provide faster and more robust connections to user equipments (UEs) by cooperation of a massive number of distributed access points, and to be one of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-05 Masaaki Ito , Issei Kanno , Takeo Ohseki , Kosuke Yamazaki , Yoji Kishi , Thomas Choi , Andreas F. Molisch

The rapid proliferation of devices and increasing data traffic in cellular networks necessitate advanced solutions to meet these escalating demands. Massive MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) technology offers a promising approach,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-09 Adel Heidari , Agrim Gupta , Ish Kumar Jain , Dinesh Bharadia

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

We consider a multi-cell Massive MIMO system in a line-of-sight (LoS) propagation environment, for which each user is served by one base station, with no cooperation among the base stations. Each base station knows the channel between its…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-14 Hong Yang , Hien Quoc Ngo , Erik G. Larsson

Cell-free Massive MIMO (mMIMO) is envisaged to be a next-generation technology beyond 5G with its high spectral efficiency and superior spatial diversity as compared to that of conventional MIMO technology. The main principle is that many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Zakir Hussain Shaik , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

The impressive growth of wireless data networks has recently led to increased attention to the issue of electromagnetic pollution and the fulfillment of electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure limits. This paper tackles the problem of power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Sergi Liesegang , Stefano Buzzi

Cell-Free Massive MIMO comprises a large number of distributed single-antenna access points (APs) serving a much smaller number of users. There is no partitioning into cells and each user is served by all APs. In this paper, the uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-13 Elina Nayebi , Alexei Ashikhmin , Thomas L. Marzetta , Bhaskar D. Rao

Massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) can support high spectral efficiency (SE) with simple linear transceivers, and is expected to provide high energy efficiency (EE). In this paper, we analyze the EE of downlink multi-cell massive MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Wenjia Liu , Shengqian Han , Chenyang Yang

In this paper, the zero-forcing (ZF) precoder with max-min power allocation is proposed for cell-free millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems using low-resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 In-soo Kim , Junil Choi

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 deep learning (DL)-based power control algorithm that solves the max-min user fairness problem in a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system is proposed. Max-min rate optimization problem in a cell-free massive MIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Nuwanthika Rajapaksha , K. B. Shashika Manosha , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) refers to a distributed Massive MIMO system where all the access points (APs) cooperate to coherently serve all the user equipments (UEs), suppress inter-cell interference and mitigate…

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

In this work, we study massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) precoders optimizing power consumption while achieving the users' rate requirements. We first characterize analytically the solutions for narrowband and wideband systems…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-11 Emanuele Peschiera , François Rottenberg

Power consumption is one of the major issues in massive MIMO (multiple input multiple output) systems, causing increased long-term operational cost and overheating issues. In this paper, we consider per-antenna power allocation with a given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Navneet Garg , Mathini Sellathurai , Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

This letter develops an optimum beamforming method for downlink transmissions in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, which employ a massive number of distributed access points to provide concurrent services to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Andong Zhou , Jingxian Wu , Erik G. Larsson , Pingzhi Fan

This paper studies the transmit power optimization in a multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. To overcome the scalability issue of network-wide max-min fairness (NW-MMF), we propose a novel power control (PC)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Amin Ghazanfari , Hei Victor Cheng , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

This paper focuses on energy savings in downlink operation of cell-free massive MIMO (CF mMIMO) networks under dynamic traffic conditions. We propose a multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL) algorithm that enables each access point…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Qichen Wang , Keyu Li , Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tugfe Demir , Mustafa Ozger , Cicek Cavdar

In cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks, robust resource allocation is critical to ensure reliable system performance in the presence of channel uncertainties resulting from imperfect channel state information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Saeed Mashdour , Saeed Mohammadzadeh , André R. Flores , Shirin Salehi , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Anke Schmeink