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Optimization-based power control algorithms are predominantly iterative with high computational complexity, making them impractical for real-time applications in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CFmMIMO) systems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Tingting Zhang , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , David J. Love , Taejoon Kim , Kai Dong

In this paper, we address two crucial challenges in the design of cell-free (CF) systems: degradation in the performance of CF systems by imperfect channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT) and high computational/signaling loads…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 A. Flores , R. C. de Lamare , K. V. Mishra

Cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) is a next-generation wireless access technology that offers superior coverage and spectral efficiency compared to conventional MIMO. With many future applications in unlicensed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Zakir Hussain Shaik , Erik G. Larsson

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is expected to be a vital component in future 5G systems. As such, there is a need for new modeling in order to investigate the performance of massive MIMO not only at the physical layer, but…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-13 Emma Fitzgerald , Michał Pióro , Fredrik Tufvesson

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

By moving to millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies, base stations (BSs) will be densely deployed to provide seamless coverage in sixth generation (6G) mobile communication systems, which, unfortunately, leads to severe cell-edge problem. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Junyuan Wang , Lin Dai , Lu Yang , Bo Bai

Precoding techniques are key to dealing with multiuser interference in the downlink of cell-free (CF) multiple-input multiple-output systems. However, these techniques rely on accurate estimates of the channel state information at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 A. Flores , R. de Lamare

This paper considers the sum spectral efficiency (SE) optimization problem in multi-cell Massive MIMO systems with a varying number of active users. This is formulated as a joint pilot and data power control problem. Since the problem is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Trinh Van Chien , Thuong Nguyen Canh , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

This paper addresses the problem of scalability for a cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) system that performs integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). Specifically, the case where a large number of access points (APs) are deployed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Sergi Liesegang

We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with multi-antenna access points and user equipments (UEs) over Weichselberger Rician fading channels with random phase-shifts. More specifically, we investigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Xin Li , Jiayi Zhang , Zhe Wang , Bo Ai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (mMIMO) is one of the essential technologies introduced by the Fifth Generation (5G) of wireless communication systems. However, although mMIMO provides many benefits for wireless communications, it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Eduardo Noboro Tominaga , Onel Luiz Alcaraz López , Hirley Alves , Richard Demo Souza , Leonardo Terças

Convolutional neural network (CNN) inference on mobile devices demands efficient hardware acceleration of low-precision (INT8) general matrix multiplication (GEMM). Exploiting data sparsity is a common approach to further accelerate GEMM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Zhi-Gang Liu , Paul N. Whatmough , Matthew Mattina

While cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) offers high network-wide throughput in static networks, especially for the worst-served users, its performance in mobile networks is not yet fully addressed. In this paper, we evaluate the performance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yunlu Xiao , Marina Petrova , Ljiljana Simić

Recently, the so-called cell-free 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). A variant of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Stefano Buzzi , Alessio Zappone

We study the problem of optimal power allocation in a single-hop ad hoc wireless network. In solving this problem, we propose a hybrid neural architecture inspired by the algorithmic unfolding of the iterative weighted minimum mean squared…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Arindam Chowdhury , Gunjan Verma , Chirag Rao , Ananthram Swami , Santiago Segarra

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) has been considered as a potential technology for Beyond 5G communication systems. However, the performance of CF mMIMO systems has not been well studied. Most existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Baolin Chong , Fengqian Guo , Hancheng Lu , Langtian Qin

This paper deals with the problem of energy consumption minimization in Open RAN cell-free (CF) massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (mMIMO) systems under minimum per-user signal-to-noise-plus-interference ratio (SINR) constraints.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Vaishnavi Kasuluru , Luis Blanco , Miguel Angel Vazquez , Cristian J. Vaca-Rubio , Engin Zeydan

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 investigate a fronthaul-limited cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system and propose a hybrid centralized-distributed precoding strategy that dynamically adapts to varying fronthaul and spectral efficiency (SE)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Ardavan Rahimian , Anvar Tukmanov , David Townend , Michail Matthaiou , Simon L. Cotton

Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) has recently gained a lot of attention due to its high potential in sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems. The goal of this paper is to first present a unified modeling for massive MIMO,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten