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Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising approach for next-generation wireless networks, enabling scalable deployments of multiple small access points (APs) to enhance coverage and service for multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Georgios Mylonopoulos , Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi , Pei Liu

We consider the downlink of a multi-cell system with multi-antenna base stations and single-antenna user terminals, arbitrary base station cooperation clusters, distance-dependent propagation pathloss, and general "fairness" requirements.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Hoon Huh , Antonia M. Tulino , Giuseppe Caire

In this paper, we consider power allocation and antenna activation of cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CFmMIMO) systems. We first derive closed-form expressions for the system spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Phuong Nam Tran , Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Hien Quoc Ngo , Markku Juntti

Fluid antennas (FAs) and mobile antennas (MAs) are innovative technologies in wireless communications that are able to proactively improve channel conditions by dynamically adjusting the transmit/receive antenna positions within a given…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Yijie Liu , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems represent a promising approach to increase the spectral efficiency of wireless communication systems. However, near-optimal beamforming solutions require a large amount of signaling exchange between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-08 Hamed Hojatian , Jeremy Nadal , Jean-Francois Frigon , Francois Leduc-Primeau

Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (CFmMIMO) offers uniform service quality through distributed access points (APs), yet unresolved issues remain. This paper proposes a heterogeneous system design that goes beyond the original…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

We present a general framework for the characterization of the packet error probability achievable in cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) architectures deployed to support ultra-reliable low-latency (URLLC) traffic. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Alejandro Lancho , Giuseppe Durisi , Luca Sanguinetti

In this work, we analyze the downlink performance of a cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output system with finite capacity fronthaul links between the centralized baseband units and the access point (APs). Conditioned on the user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Priyabrata Parida , Harpreet S. Dhillon

We study the impact of channel aging on the uplink of a cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) system by considering i) spatially-correlated Rician-faded channels; ii) hardware impairments at the access points and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Venkatesh Tentu , Dheeraj N Amudala , Anish Chattopadhyay , Rohit Budhiraja

The assumption that no LoS channels exist between wireless access points~(APs) and user equipments~(UEs) becomes questionable in the context of the recent developments in the direction of cell free massive multiple input multiple output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Sai Manikanta Rishi Rani , Ribhu Chopra , Kumar Appaiah

We study the impact of imperfect line-of-sight (LoS) phase tracking on the uplink performance of cell-free massive MIMO networks. Unlike prior works that assume perfectly known or completely unknown phases, we consider a realistic regime…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Noor Ul Ain , Lorenzo Miretti , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Slawomir Stanczak

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

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

We consider the uplink of a multicell multiuser multiple-input multiple-output system where the channel experiences both small and large-scale fading. The data detection is done by using the linear zero-forcing technique, assuming the base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou , Trung Q. Duong , 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 paper proposes the utilization of cell-free massive MIMO (CF-M-MIMO) processing on top of the regular micro/macrocellular deployments typically found in current 5G networks. Towards this end, it contemplates the connection of all base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-13 F. Riera-Palou , G. Femenias , D. López-Pérez , N. Piovesan , A. De Domenico

In this paper, we consider the uplink of cell-free massive MIMO systems, where a large number of distributed single antenna access points (APs) serve a much smaller number of users simultaneously via limited backhaul. For the first time, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Qinhui Huang , Alister Burr

The synergy of fluid-based reconfigurable antenna (FA) technology and full-duplex (FD) communications can be jointly beneficial, as FD can enhance the spectral efficiency of a point-to-point link, while the new degree of freedom offered by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Christodoulos Skouroumounis , Ioannis Krikidis

In this paper, we consider massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems for both downlink and uplink scenarios, where three radio units (RUs) connected via one digital unit (DU) support multiple user equipments (UEs) at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yeon-Geun Lim , Chan-Byoung Chae , Giuseppe Caire

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) cell-free massive multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems combine the large bandwidths available at mmWave frequencies with the improved coverage of cell-free systems. However, to combat the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Jannik Brun , Victoria Palhares , Gian Marti , Christoph Studer