… load balancing and user association for multi-tier wireless networks with massive MIMO large
and small cells. We presented methods that exploit distinct “massive MIMO” properties and …

… problem of user association with conventional MIMO BSs and … quality of service of users in
a massive MIMO and small cell … the user association problem in a TDD massive MIMO HetNet …

… of users that are simultaneously served by the BS [4–6]. In this paper, various aspects such
as user association, load … for future networks with massive MIMO deployments where these …

… We note that [24] and [25] only investigated user association problems for a given transmit
… allocation and BS-user association for multi-cell Massive MIMO DL systems. Specifically, …

… of massive MIMO scales with … user association in massive MIMO enabled HetNets is of
vital importance. We investigate the energy efficient user association problem in massive MIMO …

… communications network, we assume that each user is associated with a “virtual cluster”, …
propose a userassociation procedure aimed at the maximization of the sum-rate of the users in …

… massive multiple-user MIMO system in a single cell. The BS is equipped with a large number
of antennas 𝑀 serving 𝑀 ≫ 𝐾 active users … power allocation and user association in the DL. …

… impact of massive MIMO on the user association, we compare and analyze user association
… transmission beamforming for massive MIMO power transfer to recharge users. By deriving …

… user … user association in distributed massive MIMO systems can also enhance the EE [24],
[25]. In [24], the power allocation and user association were jointly optimized in massive MIMO …

… In this paper, we investigated the user association problem in a cloud RAN, equipped with
massive MIMO under the limited capacity of BBUs and front-haul links. In order to reduce the …