Related papers: Resilient Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks
Cell-Free Massive MIMO (CF mMIMO) has emerged as a potential enabler for future networks. It has been shown that these networks are much more energy-efficient than classical cellular systems when they are serving users at peak capacity.…
This paper presents a Failure-Aware Access Point Selection (FAAS) method aimed at improving hardware resilience in cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) networks. FAAS selects APs for each user by jointly considering channel strength and the…
We study secure communications in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems with multi-antenna access points (APs) and protective partial zero-forcing (PPZF) precoding. In particular, we consider an active…
This paper investigates a cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system that addresses the critical challenge of information leakage to potential eavesdroppers located within…
This paper presents a robust precoder design for resilient cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems that minimizes the weighted sum of desired signal mean square error (MSE) and residual interference leakage power under a total transmit…
Cell-free networks outperform cellular networks in many aspects, yet their efficiency is affected by imperfect channel state information (CSI). In order to address this issue, this work presents a robust resource allocation framework…
A cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system is considered for enhancing the monitoring performance of wireless surveillance, where a large number of distributed multi-antenna aided legitimate monitoring nodes (MNs)…
This paper introduces a robust resource allocation framework for the downlink of cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (CF-mMIMO) networks to address the effects caused by imperfect channel state information (CSI). In particular, the…
In this paper, we investigate joint power control and access point (AP) selection scheme in a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system under an active eavesdropping attack, where an eavesdropper tries to overhear…
This work studies secure communications for a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) network which is attacked by multiple passive eavesdroppers overhearing communications between access points (APs) and users in the…
We consider fronthaul-limited generalized zeroforcing-based cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems with multiple-antenna users and multipleantenna access points (APs) relying on both cooperative beamforming (CB)…
Wireless surveillance, in which untrusted communications links are proactively monitored by legitimate agencies, has started to garner a lot of interest for enhancing the national security. In this paper, we propose a new cell-free massive…
This paper proposes a novel scheme for cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CFmMIMO) networks to support any federated learning (FL) framework. This scheme allows each instead of all the iterations of the FL framework to happen…
This paper studies the security aspect of a recently introduced network ("cell-free massive MIMO") under a pilot spoofing attack. Firstly, a simple method to recognize the presence of this type of an active eavesdropping attack to a…
This paper introduces a novel joint communication and proactive monitoring (JCAM) system that simultaneously monitors multiple untrusted links and serves multiple legitimate users. The system leverages a cell-free massive multiple-input…
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)…
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) has been the core of 5G due to its ability to improve spectral efficiency and spatial multiplexing significantly; however, cell-edge users still experience performance degradation due to…
We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system with joint unicast and multi-group multicast transmissions. We derive exact closed-form expressions for the downlink achievable spectral efficiency (SE) of…
The impressive growth of wireless data networks has recently led to increased attention to the issue of electromagnetic pollution. Specific absorption rates and incident power densities have become popular indicators for measuring…
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…