RIS-aided cell-free massive MIMO: Performance analysis and competitiveness

B Al-Nahhas, M Obeed, A Chaaban… - 2021 IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider and study a cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) system aided
with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), where a large number of access points (APs) …

Generalized superimposed channel estimation for uplink RIS-aided cell-free massive MIMO systems

H Ge, N Garg, T Ratnarajah - 2022 IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a generalized superimposed channel estimation scheme for an uplink
cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) system, which is aided by several …

Spectral efficiency enhancement by hybrid pre-coding technique for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces-based massive MIMO systems under variable CSI

AH Victoria, NM Devarajan, R Saravanakumar… - Soft Computing, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, we propose a hybrid relay-reflecting intelligent surface (HR-RIS)-assisted cell-
free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) network to achieve consistent …

Impact of phase noise in downlink STAR-RIS-aided massive MIMO systems

H Ge, A Papazafeiropoulos… - IEEE Communications …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we investigate the effect of phase noise in downlink simultaneously transmitting
and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-aided massive multiple-input …

Spectral efficiency analysis of hybrid relay-reflecting intelligent surface-assisted cell-free massive MIMO systems

NT Nguyen, VD Nguyen, H Van Nguyen… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) system can provide uniform
spectral efficiency (SE) with simple signal processing. On the other hand, a recently …

Asynchronous cell-free massive MIMO with rate-splitting

J Zheng, J Zhang, J Cheng, VCM Leung… - IEEE Journal on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In practical cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks with
distributed and low-cost access points, the asynchronous arrival of signals at the user …

Downlink performance analysis of cell-free massive MIMO over spatially correlated Rayleigh channels

J Qiu, K Xu, Z Shen, W Xie, D Zhang… - 2019 IEEE 19th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increasing number of users in 5G communication, the need for faster and higher
speeds becomes more urgent, cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) is …

Cell-free massive MIMO with multi-antenna users over Weichselberger Rician channels

X Li, J Zhang, Z Wang, B Ai… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with multi-
antenna access points and user equipments (UEs) over Weichselberger Rician fading …

Ergodic rate analysis of reconfigurable intelligent surface-aided massive MIMO systems with ZF detectors

K Zhi, C Pan, H Ren, K Wang - IEEE Communications Letters, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter investigates the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided massive multiple-
input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with a two-timescale design. First, the zero-forcing (ZF) …

Uplink performance of cell-free massive MIMO with multi-antenna users over jointly-correlated Rayleigh fading channels

Z Wang, J Zhang, B Ai, C Yuen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate a cell-free massive MIMO system with both access points (APs)
and user equipments (UEs) equipped with multiple antennas over jointly-correlated …