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We consider the system-wide utility maximization problem in the downlink of a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system whereby a very large number of access points (APs) simultaneously serve a group of users.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Muhammad Farooq , Hien Quoc Ngo , Een-Kee Hong , Le-Nam Tran

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) and wireless power transfer (WPT) have been recognized as promising techniques in the Internet of Things (IoT) era to provide massive low-power wireless devices with enhanced computation capability and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Feng Wang , Jie Xu , Xin Wang , Shuguang Cui

This paper considers a cell-free massive multipleinput multiple-output (MIMO) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where distributed MIMO access points (APs) are used to jointly serve the communication users and detect the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Mohamed Elfiatoure , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

This paper introduces an access point-user (AP-UE) association strategy combined with pilot power allocation to mitigate multiuser interference and enhance spectral efficiency (SE) in clustered cell-free massive MIMO (CCF-mMIMO) networks.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 S. Mohammadzadeh , S. Mashdour , R. C. de Lamare , K. Cumanan , C. Li

This paper studies a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where its access points (APs) and users are equipped with multiple antennas. Two transmission protocols are considered. In the first transmission protocol,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Trang C. Mai , Hien Quoc Ngo , Trung Q. Duong

Large multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks promise high energy efficiency, i.e., much less power is required to achieve the same capacity compared to the conventional MIMO networks if perfect channel state information (CSI) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 An Liu , Vincent Lau

We consider the downlink of a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where large number of access points (APs) simultaneously serve a group of users. Two fundamental problems are of interest, namely (i) to maximize…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Muhammad Farooq , Hien Quoc Ngo , Le-Nam Tran

In this paper, we propose a scheme for the joint optimization of the user transmit power and the antenna selection at the access points (AP)s of a user-centric cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (UC CF-mMIMO) system. We derive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Shashank Shekhar , Athira Subhash , Muralikrishnan Srinivasan , Sheetal Kalyani

With the increasing number of user equipment (UE) and data demands, denser access points (APs) are being employed. Resource allocation problems have been extensively researched with interference treated as noise. It is well understood that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Jing Li , Dongning Guo

Cell-Free Massive Multiple-input Multiple-output (mMIMO) consists of many access points (APs) in a coverage area that jointly serve the users. These systems can significantly reduce the interference among the users compared to conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Abbas Khalili , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

Cell-free wireless networks have attracted significant interest for their ability to eliminate cell-edge effects and deliver uniformly high service quality through macro-diversity. In this paper, we develop an algorithm to jointly optimize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Achini Jayawardane , Rajitha Senanayake , Erfan Khordad , Jamie Evans

In this paper, we investigate resource allocation for multicarrier communication systems employing a full-duplex base station for serving multiple half-duplex downlink and uplink users simultaneously. We study the joint power and subcarrier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Yan Sun , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

This letter analyzes the effects of power amplifiers (PAs) on the downlink of cell-free massive MIMO systems. We model signal transmission incorporating nonlinear PA distortion and derive a unified spectral efficiency (SE) expression…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

The coupling of cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) with Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is investigated in this paper. A MEC-enabled CF-mMIMO architecture implementing a distributed user-centric approach both from the radio and the computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi

This paper considers wireless uplink information and downlink power transfer in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output systems. The single-antenna user equipments (UEs) utilize the energy harvested in the downlink to transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

This paper first considers a multicell network deployment where the base station (BS) of each cell communicates with its cell-edge user with the assistance of an amplify-and-forward (AF) relay node. Equipped with a power splitter and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ali A. Nasir , Duy T. Ngo , Xiangyun Zhou , Rodney A. Kennedy , Salman Durrani

Migrating computational intensive tasks from mobile devices to more resourceful cloud servers is a promising technique to increase the computational capacity of mobile devices while saving their battery energy. In this paper, we consider a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Stefania Sardellitti , Gesualdo Scutari , Sergio Barbarossa

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are two advanced transceiver technologies for realizing future sixth-generation (6G) networks. In this paper, we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Enyu Shi , Jiayi Zhang , Ziheng Liu , Yiyang Zhu , Chau Yuen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Marco Di Renzo , Bo Ai

This paper considers coordinated linear precoding for rate optimization in downlink multicell, multiuser orthogonal frequency- division multiple access networks. We focus on two different design criteria. In the first, the weighted sum-rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Mirza Golam Kibria , Hidekazu Murata

This paper investigates the sum-rate gains brought by power allocation strategies in multicell massive multipleinput multiple-output systems, assuming time-division duplex transmission. For both uplink and downlink, we derive tractable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Qi Zhang , Shi Jin , Matthew McKay , David Morales-Jimenez , Hongbo Zhu