Massive MIMO and small cells: Improving energy efficiency by optimal soft-cell coordination

E Björnson, M Kountouris, M Debbah - ICT 2013, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To improve the cellular energy efficiency, without sacrificing quality-of-service (QoS) at the
users, the network topology must be densified to enable higher spatial reuse. We analyze a …

Massive MIMO and small cells: How to densify heterogeneous networks

K Hosseini, J Hoydis, S Ten Brink… - 2013 IEEE international …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… for massive MIMO. For an overview of related work, we refer to [5] and the references
therein. This paper proposes a TDD-based network architecture to integrate a massive MIMO

Cell-free massive MIMO versus small cells

HQ Ngo, A Ashikhmin, H Yang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… , Cell-Free Massive MIMO is a useful and scalable implementation of the network MIMO and
DAS concepts – much in the same way as cellular … distributed Massive MIMO and smallcell

A comprehensive survey: Small cell meets massive MIMO

S Rajoria, A Trivedi, WW Godfrey - Physical communication, 2018 - Elsevier
massive MIMO technique with small cell network. First, we discuss fundamental background
for massive MIMO… Next, details of enabling technologies to massive MIMO small cell network …

Massive MIMO or small cell network: Who is more energy efficient?

W Liu, S Han, C Yang, C Sun - 2013 IEEE Wireless …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
MIMO is always lower than SCN regardless of the power parameters. This is … EEs) of Massive
MIMO and small cell network (SCN), given the same user density, antenna density and cell-…

The role of small cells, coordinated multipoint, and massive MIMO in 5G

V Jungnickel, K Manolakis, W Zirwas… - IEEE …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… and improved coverage for cell edge users. We propose a smart combination of small
cells, joint transmission coordinated multipoint (JT CoMP), and massive MIMO to enhance the …

Making smart use of excess antennas: Massive MIMO, small cells, and TDD

J Hoydis, K Hosseini, S Ten Brink… - Bell Labs Technical …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… UEs per cell, we are speaking about large-scale or “massive” multiple input multiple output
(MIMO) systems [23]. The second approach is based on a dense deployment of small cells (…

Heterogeneous cellular networks with LoS and NLoS transmissions—The role of massive MIMO and small cells

Q Zhang, HH Yang, TQS Quek… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
small cells and massive MIMO in future heterogeneous cellular networks deployment. …
massive MIMO and small cells, we omit the change in small-scale fading for analytical tractability. …

Deploying dense networks for maximal energy efficiency: Small cells meet massive MIMO

E Björnson, L Sanguinetti… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
What would a cellular network designed for maximal energy efficiency look like? To answer
this fundamental question, tools from stochastic geometry are used in this paper to model …

Analysis of massive MIMO-enabled downlink wireless backhauling for full-duplex small cells

H Tabassum, AH Sakr, E Hossain - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… As such, in the massive MIMO regime, the effects of Gaussian noise and uncorrelated
intra-cell interference disappear. In this paper, massive MIMO is utilized at CNs to facilitate …