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Cell-free massive MIMO provides ubiquitous connectivity for multiple users, and implementation using radio stripes is very efficient. This paper proposes a parallel scheme for radio stripes to allow access point to do signal processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yihua Ma , Zhifeng Yuan , Guanghui Yu , Yijian Chen

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) is a breakthrough technology for beyond-5G systems, designed to significantly boost the energy and spectral efficiencies of future mobile networks while ensuring a consistent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Alejandro de la Fuente , Guillem Femenias , Felip Riera-Palou , Giovanni Interdonato

Massive multi-input multiple-out (MIMO) is a key ingredient in improving the spectral efficiencies for next-generation cellular systems. Thanks to the channel reciprocity, in time-division-duplexing mode, each base station (BS) can acquire…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-30 Deokhwan Han , Namyoon Lee

Wireless access through a large distributed network of low-complexity infrastructure nodes empowered with cooperation and coordination capabilities, is an emerging radio architecture, candidate to deal with the mobile data capacity crunch.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-04 Antonis G. Gotsis , Angeliki Alexiou

This work revisits a recently proposed precoding design for massive multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) systems that is based on the use of an instantaneous total power constraint. The main advantages of this technique lie in its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Houssem Sifaou , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Cloud RAN (C-RAN) is a promising enabler for distributed massive MIMO systems, yet is vulnerable to its fronthaul congestion. To cope with the limited fronthaul capacity, this paper proposes a hybrid analog-digital precoding design that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Jihong Park , Dong Min Kim , Elisabeth De Carvalho , Carles Navarro Manchón

In this paper, we propose a deep reinforcement learning (RL)-based precoding framework that can be used to learn an optimal precoding policy for complex multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) precoding problems. We model the precoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Heunchul Lee , Maksym Girnyk , Jaeseong Jeong

Thanks to the strong ability against the inter-cell interference, cell-free network is considered as a promising technique to improve network capacity. However, further capacity improvement requires to deploy more base stations (BSs) with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Zijian Zhang , Linglong Dai

Large-scale MIMO systems can yield a substantial improvement in spectral efficiency for future communication systems. Due to the finer spatial resolution achieved by a huge number of antennas at the base stations, these systems have shown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-15 Abla Kammoun , Axel Müller , Emil Björnson , Mérouane Debbah

In this paper, a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted cell free massive MIMO (CFmMIMO) framework is designed to enhance physical layer security (PLS) and mitigate multi user (MU) interference in next generation wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Sumeyra Hassan , Bin Li , Yalcin Sadi , Erdal Panayirci , H. Vincent Poor

This paper investigates the design of distributed precoding for multi-satellite massive MIMO transmissions. We first conduct a detailed analysis of the transceiver model, in which delay and Doppler precompensation is introduced to ensure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Yafei Wang , Vu Nguyen Ha , Konstantinos Ntontin , Hong Yan , Wenjin Wang , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

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

Massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems enable high spatial resolution, high spectral efficiency, and improved link reliability compared to traditional MIMO systems due to the large number of antenna elements…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Brikena Kaziu , Nikita Shanin , Danilo Spano , Li Wang , Wolfgang Gerstacker , Robert Schober

In cell-free massive MIMO, centralized precoding is {theoretically known} to {remarkably} outperform its distributed counterparts, albeit {with} high implementation complexity. However, this letter highlights a practical limitation {often…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

Previous works on cell-free massive MIMO mostly consider physical-layer and fronthaul transport aspects. How to deploy cell-free massive MIMO functionality in a practical wireless system is an open problem. This paper proposes a new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Meysam Masoudi , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

Cell-free (CF) systems have the potential to fulfill the increasing performance demand of future wireless applications by employing distributed access points (APs) that transmit the information over the same time-frequency resources. Due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 A. Flores , R. C. de Lamare

Interference among concurrent transmissions in a wireless network is a key factor limiting the system performance. One way to alleviate this problem is to manage the radio resources in order to maximize either the average or the worst-case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Navid Naderializadeh , Jaroslaw Sydir , Meryem Simsek , Hosein Nikopour , Shilpa Talwar

In multi-user millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems, hybrid precoding is a crucial task to lower the complexity and cost while achieving a sufficient sum-rate. Previous works on hybrid precoding were usually…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Ahmet M. Elbir , Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos

Large-scale MIMO systems have been considered as one of the possible candidates for the next-generation wireless communication technique, due to their potential to provide significant higher throughput than conventional wireless systems.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-06 Dengkui Zhu , Boyu Li , Ping Liang

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is envisioned to offer considerable capacity improvement, but at the cost of high complexity of the hardware. In this paper, we propose a low-complexity hybrid precoding scheme to approach the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Le Liang , Wei Xu , Xiaodai Dong