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Recently, interest on the utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has aroused. Specifically, UAVs can be used in cellular networks as aerial users for delivery, surveillance, rescue search, or as an aerial base station (aBS) for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-20 Wael Jaafar , Shimaa Naser , Sami Muhaidat , Paschalis C. Sofotasios , Halim Yanikomeroglu

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

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are expected to implement advanced cooperative communication techniques to let geographically distributed access points jointly serve user equipments. Building on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Bo Ai

Uplink power control is an efficient scheme to mitigate pilot contamination in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In this work, we provide a comprehensive study on the effects of fractional power control (FPC) on the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Paolo Baracca , Lorenzo Galati Giordano , Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez , Giovanni Geraci , David Lopez-Perez

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

Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) is a general multiple access scheme for downlink multi-antenna systems embracing both classical spatial division multiple access and more recent non-orthogonal multiple access. Finding a linear…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-03 Jeonghun Park , Jinseok Choi , Namyoon Lee , Wonjae Shin , H. Vincent Poor

This paper proposes a flexible pilot assignment method to jointly optimize the uplink and downlink data transmission in multi-cell Massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems with correlated Rayleigh fading channels. By utilizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Tien Hoa Nguyen , Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Xuan Nam Tran , Emil Björnson

Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) has emerged as a novel, general, and powerful framework for the design and optimization of non-orthogonal transmission, multiple access (MA), and interference management strategies for future wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Yijie Mao , Onur Dizdar , Bruno Clerckx , Robert Schober , Petar Popovski , H. Vincent Poor

We propose reflection pattern modulation-aided reconfigurable intelligent surface (RPM-RIS)-assisted cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) schemes for green uplink transmission. In our RPM-RIS-assisted CF-mMIMO system,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-13 Zeping Sui , Hien Quoc Ngo , Trinh Van Chien , Michail Matthaiou , Lajos Hanzo

This work investigates a full-duplex (FD)-enhanced Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) system under practical constraints, including imperfect channel state information (CSI) and successive interference cancellation (SIC). We derive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Farjam Karim , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Deepak Kumar , Arthur Sousa de Sena , Matti-Latva-aho

We study support for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications through a cell-free massive MIMO architecture. Under the general assumption that the propagation channel between the mobile stations, either UAVs or ground users, and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-12 Carmen D'Andrea , Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez , Giovanni Geraci , Lorenzo Galati Giordano , Stefano Buzzi

The rapid development of IoT technology has led to a shortage of spectrum resources and energy, giving rise to simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) technology. However, traditional multiple input multiple output…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Yixuan Guo , Mingliang Xiong , Wen Fang , Qingwei Jiang , Qingwen Liu , Gang Yan

Spatial modulation (SM)-sparse code multiple access (SCMA) systems provide high spectral efficiency (SE) at the expense of using a high number of transmit antennas. To overcome this drawback, this letter proposes a novel SM-SCM A system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Ertugrul Basar , Salama Ikki

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CFmMIMO) coordinates a great number of distributed access points (APs) with central processing units (CPUs), effectively reducing interference and ensuring uniform service quality for user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-23 Phu Lai , Wei Xiang , William Damario Lukito , Khoa Tran Phan , Peng Cheng , Chang Liu , Guoqiang Mao

Base stations with a large number of transmit antennas have the potential to serve a large number of users at high rates. However, the receiver processing in the uplink relies on channel estimates which are known to suffer from pilot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Narayanan Krishnan , Roy D. Yates , Narayan B. Mandayam

The precoding in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology relies on accurate knowledge of channel responses between users (UEs) and access points (APs). Obtaining high-quality channel estimates in turn requires the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Giovanni Interdonato , Pål Frenger , Erik G. Larsson

A novel rate splitting space division multiple access (SDMA) scheme based on grouped code index modulation (GrCIM) is proposed for the sixth generation (6G) downlink transmission. The proposed RSMA-GrCIM scheme transmits information to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Wenchao Zhai , Yishan Wu , Jun Zhao , Huimei Han

A Cell-Free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system comprises a very large number of distributed access points (APs)which simultaneously serve a much smaller number of users over the same time/frequency resources based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Hien Quoc Ngo , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang , Erik G. Larsson , Thomas L. Marzetta

The polarization domain provides an extra degree of freedom (DoF) for improving the performance of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. This paper takes advantage of this additional DoF to alleviate practical issues of successive…

In this paper, we provide a theoretical framework for the study of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-enabled full-duplex (FD) cellular networks in which the self-interference (SI) channels follow the Rician distribution and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Arman Shojaeifard , Kai-Kit Wong , Marco Di Renzo , Gan Zheng , Khairi Ashour Hamdi , Jie Tang