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Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems require efficient and accurate channel estimation with low pilot overhead to unlock their full potential for high spectral and energy efficiency. While deep generative models have emerged as a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Yongqiang Zhang , Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation has been proposed to meet the demand for reliable communication in high-mobility scenarios for future wireless networks. However, in multi-user OTFS systems, conventional embedded pilot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Ruizhe Wang , Hong Ren , Cunhua Pan , Ruisong Weng , Jiangzhou Wang

We propose a novel pilot structure for covariance matrix estimation in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems in which each user transmits two pilot sequences, with the second pilot sequence multiplied by a random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Karthik Upadhya , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

We investigate beam training and allocation for multiuser millimeter wave massive MIMO systems. An orthogonal pilot based beam training scheme is first developed to reduce the number of training times, where all users can simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-08 Xuyao Sun , Chenhao Qi , Geoffrey Ye Li

Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) provides great improvements in spectral efficiency over legacy cellular networks, by coherent combining of the signals over a large antenna array and by spatial multiplexing of many users. Since…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Emil Björnson , Jakob Hoydis , Luca Sanguinetti

This study addresses the challenge of access point (AP) and user equipment (UE) association in cell-free massive MIMO networks. It introduces a deep learning algorithm leveraging Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory cells and a hybrid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Giovanni Di Gennaro , Amedeo Buonanno , Gianmarco Romano , Stefano Buzzi , Francesco A. N. Palmieri

The canonical setup is the primary approach adopted in cell-free multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks, in which all access points (APs) jointly serve every user equipment (UE). This approach is not scalable in terms of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Ala Eddine Nouali , Mohamed Sana , Jean-Paul Jamont

In this paper, we consider a joint unicast and multi-group multicast cell-free distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, while accounting for co-pilot assignment strategy based channel estimation, pilot contamination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Jiamin Li , Qijun Pan , Zhenggang Wu , Pengcheng Zhu , Dongming Wang , Xiaohu You

This paper tackles two key challenges in cell-freemassive multiple input multiple output (CF-mMIMO) systems:efficient pilot allocation and practical receiver design. To thisend, we introduce a novel pilot allocation framework…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Getuar Rexhepi , Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe , Kengo Ando , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , David Gonzalez G

This study proposes an efficient data collection strategy exploiting a team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to monitor and collect the data of a large distributed sensor network usually used for environmental monitoring, meteorology,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-12 S. MahmoudZadeh , A. Yazdani , A. Elmi , A. Abbasi , P. Ghanooni

We study the problem of user-scheduling and resource allocation in distributed multi-user, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks implementing user-centric clustering and non-coherent transmission. We formulate a weighted sum-rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Hussein A. Ammar , Raviraj Adve , Shahram Shahbazpanahi , Gary Boudreau , Kothapalli Srinivas

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks have emerged as a promising technique to rapidly provide wireless coverage to a geographical area, where a flying UAV can be fast deployed to serve as cell site. Existing work on UAV-enabled wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Xiao Zhang , Lingjie Duan

This paper concerns the feasibility of full-duplex large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) cellular systems. We first propose a pilot transmission scheme and assess its performance, specifically the ergodic sum-rate. The proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Jeongwan Koh , Yeon-Geun Lim , Chan-Byoung Chae , Joonhyuk Kang

We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output system with multi-antenna access points (APs) and user equipments (UEs), where the UEs can be served in both the downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) within a resource block. We tackle…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Bikshapathi Gouda , Antti Arvola , Italo Atzeni , Antti Tölli

This paper introduces a novel iterative algorithm for optimizing pilot and data power control (PC) in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems, aiming to enhance system performance under real-time channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Saeed Mohammadzadeh , Mostafa Rahmani , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Alister Burr , Pei Xiao

Achieving high channel estimation accuracy and reducing hardware cost as well as power dissipation constitute substantial challenges in the design of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. To resolve these difficulties,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Yalin Wang , Xihan Chen , Yunlong Cai , Benoit Champagne , Lajos Hanzo

Resource allocation is conceived for cell-free (CF) massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO)-aided ultra-reliable and low latency communication (URLLC) systems. Specifically, to support multiple devices with limited pilot overhead, pilot…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Qihao Peng , Hong Ren , Mianxiong Dong , Maged Elkashlan , Kai-Kit Wong , Lajos Hanzo

Dense large-scale antenna deployments are one of the most promising technologies for delivering very large throughputs per unit area in the downlink (DL) of cellular networks. We consider such a dense deployment involving a distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu , Chenwei Wang , Haralabos Papadopoulos , Giuseppe Caire

The traditional centralized baseband processing architecture is faced with the bottlenecks of high computation complexity and excessive fronthaul communication, especially when the number of antennas at the base station (BS) is large. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Yanqing Xu , Bo Wang , Enbin Song , Qingjiang Shi , Tsung-Hui Chang

In this paper, we derive a performance comparison between two training-based schemes for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems. The two schemes are thetime-division multiplexing scheme and the recently proposed data-dependent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-05 Abla Kammoun , Karim Abed-Meraim