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Multi-tier networks with large-array base stations (BSs) that are able to operate in the "massive MIMO" regime are envisioned to play a key role in meeting the exploding wireless traffic demands. Operated over small cells with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Qiaoyang Ye , Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu , Haralabos C. Papadopoulos

The cell-free MIMO concept relying on hybrid precoding constitutes an innovative technique capable of dramatically increasing the network capacity of millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems. It dispenses with the cell boundary of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Chenghao Feng , Wenqian Shen , Jianping An , Lajos Hanzo

A key motivation in the development of Distributed Model Predictive Control (DMPC) is to accelerate centralized Model Predictive Control (MPC) for large-scale systems. DMPC has the prospect of scaling well by parallelizing computations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Gösta Stomberg , Maurice Raetsch , Alexander Engelmann , Timm Faulwasser

This paper considers a cell-free massive multipleinput multiple-output (MIMO) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where distributed MIMO access points (APs) are used to jointly serve the communication users and detect the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Mohamed Elfiatoure , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

In a recent work, we studied a novel precoding design for cell-free networks called team minimum mean-square error (TMMSE) precoding, which rigorously generalizes centralized MMSE precoding to distributed operations based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Lorenzo Miretti , Emil Björnson , David Gesbert

We investigate the optimal power allocation and optimal precoding for a multi-cell-processing (MCP) framework with limited cooperation. In particular, we consider two base stations(BSs) which maximize the achievable rate for two users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Samah A. M. Ghanem

The deployment of large-scale antenna arrays for cellular base stations (BSs), termed as `Massive MIMO', has been a key enabler for meeting the ever-increasing capacity requirement for 5G communication systems and beyond. Despite their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Ang Li , Christos Masouros , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Wei Yu

In this paper, we consider the uplink channel estimation phase and downlink data transmission phase of cell-free millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with low-capacity fronthaul links and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-01 In-soo Kim , Mehdi Bennis , Junil Choi

In cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) the fluctuations of the channel gain from the access points to a user are large due to the distributed topology of the system. Because of these fluctuations, data decoding schemes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Giovanni Interdonato , Hien Quoc Ngo , Erik G. Larsson

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is considered as a communication-efficient solution for data aggregation and distributed learning by exploiting the superposition properties of wireless multi-access channels. However, AirComp is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Chen Chen , Emil Björnson , Carlo Fischione

Massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) has evolved along two tracks: cellular and cell-free, each with unique advantages and limitations. The cellular approach suffers from worse user spectral efficiency at cell edges, whereas the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

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

This paper considers a cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) system using conjugate beamforming (CB) with fractional-exponent normalization. Assuming independent Rayleigh fading channels, a generalized closed-form expression for the achievable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi

Cell-free massive MIMO systems have promising data rate and uniform coverage gains. These systems, however, typically rely on optical fiber based fronthaul for the communication between the central processing unit (CPU) and the distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Umut Demirhan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems greatly increase the overall throughput of wireless systems since they are capable of transmitting multiple streams employing the same time-frequency resources. However, this gain requires an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-15 A. Flores , R. C. de Lamare

Joint unicast and multicast transmissions are becoming increasingly important in practical wireless systems, such as Internet of Things networks. This paper investigates a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output system that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Mustafa S. Abbas , Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Hyundong Shin , Michail Matthaiou

This paper deals with the problem of energy consumption minimization in Open RAN cell-free (CF) massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (mMIMO) systems under minimum per-user signal-to-noise-plus-interference ratio (SINR) constraints.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Vaishnavi Kasuluru , Luis Blanco , Miguel Angel Vazquez , Cristian J. Vaca-Rubio , Engin Zeydan

Although the hybrid of cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) promises massive spectral efficiency gains, the type of precoders employed at the access points (APs) impacts the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Fatemeh Rezaei , Chintha Tellambura , Aliakbar Tadaion , Ali Reza Heidarpour

Deploying antenna arrays with an asymptotically large aperture will be central to achieving the theoretical gains of massive MIMO in beyond-5G systems. Such extra-large MIMO (XL-MIMO) systems experience propagation conditions which are not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Lucas N. Ribeiro , Stefan Schwarz , Martin Haardt

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) has emerged as a promising paradigm for delivering uniformly high-quality coverage in future wireless networks. To address the inherent challenges of precoding in such distributed systems, recent studies…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Tianzheng Miao , Thomas Feys , Gilles Callebaut , Jarne Van Mulders , Emanuele Peschiera , Md Arifur Rahman , François Rottenberg