Massive multiuser MIMO in heterogeneous cellular networks with full duplex small cells

S Akbar, Y Deng, A Nallanathan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Full duplex (FD) communication has emerged as an attractive solution for increasing the
network throughput, by allowing downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) transmissions in the same …

Massive MIMO in K-tier heterogeneous cellular networks: Coverage and rate

A He, L Wang, Y Chen, M Elkashlan… - 2015 IEEE Global …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper exploits the potential of massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) in K-tier
heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs), to enhance the data rate for 5G. In such a network …

Asymptotic coverage probability and rate in massive MIMO networks

T Bai, RW Heath Jr - arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.2233, 2013 - arxiv.org
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a transmission technique for cellular
systems that uses many antennas to support not-as-many users. Thus far, the performance …

Asymptotic coverage and rate in massive MIMO networks

T Bai, RW Heath - 2014 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a transmission technique for cellular
systems that uses many antennas to support not-as-many users. In this paper, we analyze its …

Massive MIMO and small cells: How to densify heterogeneous networks

K Hosseini, J Hoydis, S Ten Brink… - 2013 IEEE international …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a time division duplex (TDD) based network architecture where a macrocell tier
with a “massive” multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) base station (BS) is overlaid with a …

Cell-free massive MIMO versus small cells

HQ Ngo, A Ashikhmin, H Yang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Multi-cell multiuser massive MIMO networks: User capacity analysis and pilot design

N Akbar, N Yang, P Sadeghi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel pilot sequence design to mitigate pilot contamination in multi-cell
multiuser massive multiple-input multiple-output networks. Our proposed design generates …

Downlink spectral efficiency of cell-free massive MIMO systems with multi-antenna users

TC Mai, HQ Ngo, TQ Duong - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Can full duplex boost throughput and delay of 5G ultra-dense small cell networks?

MG Sarret, G Berardinelli, NH Mahmood… - 2016 IEEE 83rd …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Given the recent advances in system and antenna design, practical implementation of full
duplex (FD) communication is becoming increasingly feasible. In this paper, the potential of …

Location-aware pilot assignment for massive MIMO systems in heterogeneous networks

P Zhao, Z Wang, C Qian, L Dai… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate the heterogeneous cellular network (HetNet) where the macrocell base
stations (MBSs) are equipped with very large antenna arrays. Since such a combined …