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Cell-free multiple input multiple output (CF-MIMO) systems improve spectral and energy efficiencies using distributed access points (APs) to provide reliable service across an area equivalent to multiple conventional cells. This paper…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yi Chu , Mostafa Rahmani , Josh Shackleton , David Grace , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Hamed Ahmadi , Alister Burr

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) and extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) are regarded as promising innovations for the forthcoming generation of wireless communication systems. Their significant advantages in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Zhilong Liu , Jiayi Zhang , Ziheng Liu , Hongyang Du , Zhe Wang , Dusit Niyato , Mohsen Guizani , Bo Ai

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

Tag-based physical layer authentication (PLA) has garnered significant attention due to its low complexity and enhanced security. However, existing PLA schemes encounter two challenges. First, unintended user interference, which overlaps…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Lei Yao , Boxiang He , Shilian Wang , Ning Xie

Due to its communication efficiency and privacy-preserving capability, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising framework for machine learning in 5G-and-beyond wireless networks. Of great interest is the design and optimization of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Tung T. Vu , Duy T. Ngo , Hien Quoc Ngo , Minh N. Dao , Nguyen H. Tran , Richard H. Middleton

The problem of beam alignment (BA) in a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system operating at millimeter wave (mmWaves) carrier frequencies is considered in this paper. Two estimation algorithms are proposed, in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Maria Fresia , Xiaofeng Wu

In a cell-free (CF) massive MIMO architecture a very large number of distributed access points (APs) simultaneously and jointly serves a much smaller number of mobile stations (MSs); a variant of the cell-free technique is the user-centric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Mario Alonzo , Stefano Buzzi

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

The mobile data traffic has been exponentially growing during the last decades, which has been enabled by the densification of the network infrastructure in terms of increased cell density (i.e., ultra-dense network (UDN)) and/or increased…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Shuaifei Chen , Jiayi Zhang , Jing Zhang , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai

This article discusses opportunities and challenges of physical layer security integration in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MaMIMO) systems. Specifically, we first show that MaMIMO itself is robust against passive eavesdropping…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Dzevdan Kapetanovic , Gan Zheng , Fredrik Rusek

A continuous goal in all communication systems is to enhance the users experience and provide them with the highest possible data rates. Recently, the concept of cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems has been considered to enhance the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Ahmed Almehdhar , Mohanad Obeed , Anas Chaaban , Salam A. Zummo

Driven by the ever-increasing requirements of ultra-high spectral efficiency, ultra-low latency, and massive connectivity, the forefront of wireless research calls for the design of advanced next generation multiple access schemes to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Lu Lv , Dongyang Xu , Rose Qingyang Hu , Yinghui Ye , Long Yang , Xianfu Lei , Xianbin Wang , Dong In Kim , Arumugam Nallanathan

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) provides good interference management by coordinating many more access points (APs) than user equipments (UEs). It becomes challenging to determine which APs should serve which UEs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Shuaifei Chen , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai

Wireless networks are highly vulnerable to spoofing attacks, especially when attackers transmit consecutive spoofing packets. Conventional physical layer authentication (PLA) methods have mostly focused on single-packet spoofing attack.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yijia Guo , Junqing Zhang , Yao-Win Peter Hong

Physical layer authentication (PLA) uses inherent characteristics of the communication medium to provide secure and efficient authentication in wireless networks, bypassing the need for traditional cryptographic methods. With advancements…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Clifton Paul Robinson , Salvatore D'Oro , Tommaso Melodia

In this paper, we investigate cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems in which access points (APs) are equipped with fluid antennas (FAs) and develop a comprehensive framework for channel estimation, antenna port selection, and uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Maryam Olyaee , Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) is a promising technology to empower next-generation mobile communication networks. In this paper, to address the computational complexity associated with conventional fingerprint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Ziheng Liu , Jiayi Zhang , Enyu Shi , Yiyang Zhu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CFmMIMO) coordinates a great number of distributed access points (APs) with central processing units (CPUs), effectively reducing interference and ensuring uniform service quality for user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-23 Phu Lai , Wei Xiang , William Damario Lukito , Khoa Tran Phan , Peng Cheng , Chang Liu , Guoqiang Mao

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) deployments are usually investigated with half-duplex nodes and high-capacity fronthaul links. To leverage the possible gains in throughput and energy efficiency (EE) of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-13 Soumyadeep Datta , Dheeraj Naidu Amudala , Ekant Sharma , Rohit Budhiraja , Shivendra S. Panwar

In this letter, we consider the uplink of a cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network where each user is decoded by a subset of access points (APs). An additional step is introduced in the cell-free Massive MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Carmen D'Andrea , Erik G. Larsson