Cell-free massive MIMO: A survey

S Elhoushy, M Ibrahim… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Towards a fully connected intelligent digital world, 5G and beyond networks experience a
new era of Internet of intelligence with connected people and things. This new era brings …

Towards 6G wireless communication networks: Vision, enabling technologies, and new paradigm shifts

X You, CX Wang, J Huang, X Gao, Z Zhang… - Science China …, 2021 - Springer
The fifth generation (5G) wireless communication networks are being deployed worldwide
from 2020 and more capabilities are in the process of being standardized, such as mass …

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 …

Seven defining features of terahertz (THz) wireless systems: A fellowship of communication and sensing

C Chaccour, MN Soorki, W Saad… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless communication at the terahertz (THz) frequency bands (0.1–10 THz) is viewed as
one of the cornerstones of tomorrow's 6G wireless systems. Owing to the large amount of …

User-centric cell-free massive MIMO networks: A survey of opportunities, challenges and solutions

HA Ammar, R Adve, S Shahbazpanahi… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Densification of network base stations is indispensable to achieve the stringent Quality of
Service (QoS) requirements of future mobile networks. However, with a dense deployment of …

Prospective multiple antenna technologies for beyond 5G

J Zhang, E Björnson, M Matthaiou… - IEEE Journal on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiple antenna technologies have attracted much research interest for several decades
and have gradually made their way into mainstream communication systems. Two main …

Scalable cell-free massive MIMO systems

E Björnson, L Sanguinetti - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Cell-free massive MIMO: A new next-generation paradigm

J Zhang, S Chen, Y Lin, J Zheng, B Ai, L Hanzo - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems have a large number
of individually controllable antennas distributed over a wide area for simultaneously serving …

Ubiquitous cell-free massive MIMO communications

G Interdonato, E Björnson, H Quoc Ngo… - EURASIP Journal on …, 2019 - Springer
Since the first cellular networks were trialled in the 1970s, we have witnessed an incredible
wireless revolution. From 1G to 4G, the massive traffic growth has been managed by a …

Structured massive access for scalable cell-free massive MIMO systems

S Chen, J Zhang, E Björnson… - IEEE Journal on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
How to meet the demand for increasing number of users, higher data rates, and stringent
quality-of-service (QoS) in the beyond fifth-generation (B5G) networks? Cell-free massive …