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In this paper, we employ a user-centric (UC) cell-free massive MIMO (CFmMIMO) network for providing ultra reliable low latency communication (URLLC) when traditional ground users (GUs) coexist with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). We study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Mohamed Elwekeil , Alessio Zappone , Stefano Buzzi

This paper studies the transmit power optimization in multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Network-wide max-min fairness (NW-MMF) and network-wide proportional fairness (NW-PF) are two well-known power control…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Amin Ghazanfari , Hei Victor Cheng , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

This paper aims to minimize the total transmit power consumption for Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) downlink cellular systems when each user is served by the optimized subset of the base stations (BSs). We derive a lower…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-08 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

We consider the problem of max-min fairness for uplink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output which is a potential technology for beyond 5G networks. More specifically, we aim to maximize the minimum spectral efficiency of all…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 Muhammad Farooq , Hien Quoc Ngo , Le Nam Tran

The impressive growth of wireless data networks has recently led to increased attention to the issue of electromagnetic pollution and the fulfillment of electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure limits. This paper tackles the problem of power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Sergi Liesegang , Stefano Buzzi

We study internet of things (IoT) systems supported by cell-free (CF) massive MIMO (mMIMO) with optimal linear channel estimation. For the uplink, we consider optimal linear MIMO receiver and obtain an uplink SINR approximation involving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Hangsong Yan , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

Massive MIMO is seen as a main enabler for low latency communications, thanks to its high spatial degrees of freedom. The channel hardening and favorable propagation properties of Massive MIMO are particularly important for multiplexing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Alexandru-Sabin Bana , Luca Sanguinetti , Elisabeth De Carvalho , Petar Popovski

An IoT (Internet of things) system supports a massive number of IoT devices wirelessly. We show how to use Cell-Free Massive MIMO (multiple-input and multiple-output) to provide a scalable and energy efficient IoT system. We employ optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Hangsong Yan , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

We consider the problem of max-min fairness for uplink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) subject to per-user power constraints. The standard framework for solving the considered problem is to separately solve two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-21 Muhammad Farooq , Hien Quoc Ngo , Le-Nam Tran

Imagine a coverage area with many wireless access points that cooperate to jointly serve the users, instead of creating autonomous cells. Such a cell-free network operation can potentially resolve many of the interference issues that appear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

Ubiquitous cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) combines massive MIMO technology and user-centric transmission in a distributed architecture. All the access points (APs) in the network cooperate to jointly and coherently…

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

This paper studies the transmit power optimization in a multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. To overcome the scalability issue of network-wide max-min fairness (NW-MMF), we propose a novel power control (PC)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Amin Ghazanfari , Hei Victor Cheng , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

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

In the cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) system, the centralized transmission scheme is widely adopted to manage the inter-user interference. Unfortunately, its implementation is limited by the extensive signaling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Hongkang Yu , Xinquan Ye , Yijian Chen

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

This paper studies a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where its access points (APs) and users are equipped with multiple antennas. Two transmission protocols are considered. In the first transmission protocol,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Trang C. Mai , Hien Quoc Ngo , Trung Q. Duong

In this paper, we analyze the benefits of including downlink pilots in a cell-free massive MIMO system. We derive an approximate per-user achievable downlink rate for conjugate beamforming processing, which takes into account both uplink…

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

This paper considers a cellular system with a full-duplex base station and half-duplex users. The base station can activate one user in uplink or downlink (half-duplex mode), or two different users one in each direction simultaneously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Shahram Shahsavari , David Ramirez , Elza Erkip

This letter develops an optimum beamforming method for downlink transmissions in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, which employ a massive number of distributed access points to provide concurrent services to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Andong Zhou , Jingxian Wu , Erik G. Larsson , Pingzhi Fan

We propose a max-min multi-cell aware regularized zero-forcing (Max-Min MCA-RZF) precoding and power allocation scheme for downlink multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. A general correlated channel model is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Shahram Zarei , Jocelyn Aulin , Wolfgang Gerstacker , Robert Schober