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 …

[HTML][HTML] A review of energy efficiency and power control schemes in ultra-dense cell-free massive MIMO systems for sustainable 6G wireless communication

AL Imoize, HI Obakhena, FI Anyasi, SN Sur - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The traditional multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems cannot provide very high
Spectral Efficiency (SE), Energy Efficiency (EE), and link reliability, which are critical to …

Secure transmission in cell-free massive MIMO with low-resolution DACs over Rician fading channels

Y Zhang, W Xia, G Zheng, H Zhao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the secure transmission in downlink cell-free massive multiple-input
multiple-output (MIMO) systems in the presence of an active multi-antenna eavesdropper …

Performance analysis of CF-mMIMO-aided SWIPT IoT networks with non-ideal RF response and low-resolution ADCs/DACs

Y Zhang, K Yang, W Xia, H Zhao, X Xu… - IEEE Sensors …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates the downlink performance of a cell-free massive multiple-input
multiple-output (CF-mMIMO)-aided simultaneous wireless information and power transfer …

Cell-free massive MIMO with mixed-resolution ADCs and I/Q imbalance over Rician spatially correlated channels

Z Liu, J Zhang, Z Wang, X Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The practical deployment of cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO), a
promising technology empowering the sixth-generation with multitudinous access points …

Superimposed pilots are beneficial for mitigating pilot contamination in cell-free massive MIMO

Y Zhang, X Qiao, L Yang, H Zhu - IEEE Communications …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we present the first study for uplink cell-free massive multi-input multi-output
(MIMO) systems with superimposed pilots (SPs). Closed-form linear minimum mean square …

Cell-free massive MIMO systems with low-resolution ADCs: The Rician fading case

Y Zhang, L Yang, H Zhu - IEEE Systems Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article studies the uplink and downlink achievable rates of cell-free massive multi-input
multi-output (MIMO) systems over Rician fading channels, assuming that each access point …

Power optimization of cell-free massive MIMO with full-duplex and low-resolution ADCs

P Anokye, DKP Asiedu, KJ Lee - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper analyzes the spectral/energy efficiency (SE/EE) of a full-duplex (FD) cell-free
(CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) over Rician fading channels. Due to …

Impact of antenna distribution on spectral and energy efficiency of cell-free massive MIMO with transmit power control algorithms

M Ito, I Kanno, K Yamazaki, Y Kishi… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems are expected to
provide faster and more robust connections to user equipments by cooperation of a massive …

Hardware-impaired rician-faded cell-free massive MIMO systems with LSFD and channel aging: SE analysis and optimization

V Tentu, DN Amudala, A Chattopadhyay… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the impact of channel aging on the uplink of a cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input
multiple-output (mMIMO) system by considering i) spatially-correlated Rician-faded …