Foundations of user-centric cell-free massive MIMO

ÖT Demir, E Björnson… - Foundations and Trends …, 2021 - nowpublishers.com
Imagine a coverage area where each mobile device is communicating with a preferred set of
wireless access points (among many) that are selected based on its needs and cooperate to …

Ultradense Cell-Free Massive MIMO for 6G: Technical Overview and Open Questions

HQ Ngo, G Interdonato, EG Larsson… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultradense cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-MMIMO) has emerged as a
promising technology expected to meet the future ubiquitous connectivity requirements and …

Making cell-free massive MIMO competitive with MMSE processing and centralized implementation

E Björnson, L Sanguinetti - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell-free Massive MIMO is considered as a promising technology for satisfying the
increasing number of users and high rate expectations in beyond-5G networks. The key idea …

Local partial zero-forcing precoding for cell-free massive MIMO

G Interdonato, M Karlsson, E Björnson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is a promising distributed network
architecture for 5G-and-beyond systems. It guarantees ubiquitous coverage at high spectral …

A survey on research activities for deploying cell free massive MIMO towards beyond 5G

I Kanno, K Yamazaki, Y Kishi… - IEICE Transactions on …, 2022 - search.ieice.org
5G service has been launched in various countries, and research for the beyond 5G is
already underway actively around the world. In beyond 5G, it is expected to expand the …

Access point switch ON/OFF strategies for green cell-free massive MIMO networking

G Femenias, N Lassoued, F Riera-Palou - IEEE access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The combination of user-centric network densification and distributed massive multiple-input
multiple-output (MIMO) operation has recently brought along a new paradigm in the wireless …

Learning-assisted user clustering in cell-free massive MIMO-NOMA networks

QN Le, VD Nguyen, OA Dobre… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The superior spectral efficiency (SE) and user fairness feature of non-orthogonal multiple
access (NOMA) systems are achieved by exploiting user clustering (UC) more efficiently …

Joint channel estimation and data detection in cell-free massive MU-MIMO systems

H Song, T Goldstein, X You, C Zhang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a joint channel estimation and data detection (JED) algorithm for densely-
populated cell-free massive multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems …

Channel hardening in cell-free and user-centric massive MIMO networks with spatially correlated Ricean fading

AÁ Polegre, F Riera-Palou, G Femenias… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The irruption of the cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network
topology has meant taking one step further the concept of massive MIMO as a means to …

Can dynamic TDD enabled half-duplex cell-free massive MIMO outperform full-duplex cellular massive MIMO?

A Chowdhury, R Chopra… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a dynamic time division duplex (DTDD) enabled cell-free massive multiple-
input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system, where each half-duplex (HD) access point (AP) is …