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We study the problem of uplink compression for cell-free multi-input multi-output networks with limited fronthaul capacity. In compress-forward mode, remote radio heads (RRHs) compress the received signal and forward it to a central unit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Zehua Li , Jingjie Wei , Raviraj Adve

We study downlink channel estimation in a multi-cell Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system operating in time-division duplex. The users must know their effective channel gains to decode their received downlink data. Previous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Amin Ghazanfari , Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

We investigate the uplink throughput achievable by a multiple-user (MU) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system in which the base station is equipped with a large number of low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Sven Jacobsson , Giuseppe Durisi , Mikael Coldrey , Ulf Gustavsson , Christoph Studer

In this paper, we consider the power allocation problem for the downlink of the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We propose a new scheme by exploiting the water-filling algorithm in a cell with two zones. It is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Abdolrasoul Sakhaei Gharagezlou , Jafar Pourrostam , Mahdi Nangir , Mir Mahdi Safari

We propose a strategy for orthogonal downlink pilot assignment in cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) that exploits knowledge of the channel state information, the channel hardening degree at each user, and the mobility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Giovanni Interdonato , Pål Frenger , Erik G. Larsson

This paper compares centralized and distributed methods to solve the power minimization problem with quality-of-service (QoS) constraints in the downlink (DL) of multi-cell Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson , Tuan Anh Le

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a key technology for next-generation wireless systems. The integration of cell-free massive MIMO within the open radio access network (O-RAN) architecture addresses the growing need…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Mohammad Hossein Shokouhi , Vincent W. S. Wong

Cell-Free Massive Multiple-input Multiple-output (mMIMO) consists of many access points (APs) in a coverage area that jointly serve the users. These systems can significantly reduce the interference among the users compared to conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Abbas Khalili , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

This paper considers joint uplink/downlink of an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA)-based heterogeneous network (HetNet) consisting of a single macro base station (MBS), multiple femto base stations (FBSs) and access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Sepehr Rezvani , Nader Mokari , Mohammad R. Javan

In cell-free massive MIMO networks, an efficient distributed detection algorithm is of significant importance. In this paper, we propose a distributed expectation propagation (EP) detector for cell-free massive MIMO. The detector is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Hengtao He , Hanqing Wang , Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Future wireless networks need to support massive machine type communication (mMTC) where a massive number of devices accesses the network and massive MIMO is a promising enabling technology. Massive access schemes have been studied for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Unnikrishnan Kunnath Ganesan , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Downlink (DL) Multi-User (MU) Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) is a key technology that allows multiple concurrent data transmissions from an Access Point (AP) to a selected sub-set of clients for higher network efficiency in IEEE…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Liu Cao , Lyutianyang Zhang , Sumit Roy , Sian Jin

The concept of deploying a large number of antennas at the base station, often called massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), has drawn considerable interest because of its potential ability to revolutionize current wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Junil Choi , David J. Love , Patrick Bidigare

In this paper, we propose a novel method for efficient implementation of a massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (massive MIMO) system with Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) operation. Our main objective is to reduce the large overhead…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Xinping Yi , Giuseppe Caire

In this paper, we investigate downlink power control in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks with distributed antenna arrays. The base station (BS) in each cell consists of multiple antenna arrays, which are deployed in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Noman Akbar , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson , Nan Yang

Cell-Free Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) and Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) have been active research topics in the wireless communication community in recent years. As an open-source software implementation of the 3rd Generation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Utku Uçak , Fariba Armandoust , Matthias Mehlhose , Daniel Schäufele , Jochen Fink , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Sławomir Stańczak

Cell-free massive MIMO improves the fairness among the user equipments (UEs) in the network by distributing many cooperating access points (APs) around the region while connecting them to a centralized cloud-computing unit that coordinates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-05 Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

The coupling of cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) with Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is investigated in this paper. A MEC-enabled CF-mMIMO architecture implementing a distributed user-centric approach both from the radio and the computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi

In this paper we consider a time-division duplex cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where many distributed access points (APs) simultaneously serve many users. A normalized conjugate beamforming scheme, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Giovanni Interdonato , Hien Quoc Ngo , Erik G. Larsson , Pål Frenger

Uplink-downlink decoupling in which users can be associated to different base stations in the uplink and downlink of heterogeneous small cell networks (SCNs) has attracted significant attention recently. However, most existing works focus…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mingzhe Chen , Walid Saad , Changchuan Yin