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This study explores a next-generation multiple access (NGMA) framework for cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems enhanced by stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs), aiming to improve simultaneous wireless information and power transfer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Thien Duc Hua , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

With the evolution of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology toward extremely large (XL) MIMO systems comprising hundreds of, or more, antennas, this work investigates scalable and fronthaul-efficient reception design for the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Dogon Kim , Hyunmin Noh , Seok-Hwan Park

This paper investigates the joint data and pilot power optimization for maximum sum spectral efficiency (SE) in multi-cell Massive MIMO systems, which is a non-convex problem. We first propose a new optimization algorithm, inspired by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

We derive a fast and optimal algorithm for solving practical weighted max-min SINR problems in cell-free massive MIMO networks. For the first time, the optimization problem jointly covers long-term power control and distributed beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Lorenzo Miretti , Renato Luis Garrido Cavalcante , Slawomir Stanczak

This paper proposes a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) architecture with joint list-based detection with soft interference cancelation (soft-IC) and access points (APs) selection. In particular, we derive a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-11 T. Ssettumba , L. T. N. Landau , R. C. de Lamare

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

Limited-backhaul cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), in which the fog radio access network (F-RAN) is implemented to exchange the information between access points (APs) and the central processing unit (CPU), is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Manijeh Bashar , Hien Quoc Ngo , Alister G. Burr , Dick Maryopi , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Erik G. Larsson

Integrating radio-sensing functionalities into future cell-free (CF) wireless networks promises efficient resource utilization and facilitates the seamless roll-out of applications such as public safety and smart infrastructure. While the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Leonardo Leyva , Daniel Castanheira , Adão Silva , Atílio Gameiro

The main challenges in designing downlink coordinated multicast beamforming in massive multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) cellular networks are the complex computational solutions and significant fronthaul overhead for centralized…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-20 Shiqi Yin , Min Dong

This paper addresses joint transceiver and relay design for a wireless multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) switching scheme that enables data exchange among multiple users. Here, a multi-antenna relay linearly precodes the received…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Fanggang Wang , Xiaojun Yuan , Soung Chang Liew , Dongning Guo

In this work, we derive a lower bound on the training-based achievable downlink (DL) sum rate (SR) of a multi-user multiple-input-single-output (MISO) system operating in frequency-division-duplex (FDD) mode. Assuming linear minimum mean…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Donia Ben Amor , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

In this paper, we consider a downlink multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) communication assisted by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and study the precoding and RIS configuration design under practical system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Parisa Ramezani , Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Emil Björnson

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

Massive multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) promises significant gains in spectral efficiency compared to traditional, small-scale MIMO technology. Linear equalization algorithms, such as zero forcing (ZF) or minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Charles Jeon , Kaipeng Li , Joseph R. Cavallaro , Christoph Studer

This paper investigates the energy efficiency (EE) optimization in downlink multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). In our research, the statistical channel state information (CSI) is exploited to reduce the signaling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Li You , Yufei Huang , Di Zhang , Zheng Chang , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao

A cellular multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink system is studied in which each base station (BS) transmits to some of the users, so that each user receives its intended signal from a subset of the BSs. This scenario is referred…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-12 Saeed Kaviani , Osvaldo Simeone , Witold A Krzymień , Shlomo Shamai

Multi-Cell (MC) systems are present in mobile network operations from the first generation to the fifth generation of wireless networks, and considers the signals of all users to a base station (BS) centered in a cell. Cell-Free (CF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-04 E. F. de Almeida , R. C. de Lamare

Standard cell-free (CF) multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) systems is a promising technology to cover the demands for higher data rates in fifth-generation (5G) networks and beyond. These systems assume a large number of distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Emil Björnson , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas , John M. Senior

This paper considers a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system that consists of a large number of geographically distributed access points (APs) serving multiple users via coherent joint transmission. The downlink…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-15 Mahmoud Zaher , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Marina Petrova

Convergence constrained power allocation (CCPA) in single carrier multiuser (MU) single-input multiple-output (SIMO) systems with turbo equalization is considered in this paper. In order to exploit full benefit of the iterative receiver,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Valtteri Tervo , Antti Tölli , Juha Karjalainen , Tad Matsumoto