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 …

User-centric cell-free massive MIMO networks: A survey of opportunities, challenges and solutions

HA Ammar, R Adve, S Shahbazpanahi… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Densification of network base stations is indispensable to achieve the stringent Quality of
Service (QoS) requirements of future mobile networks. However, with a dense deployment of …

A systematic review on NOMA variants for 5G and beyond

I Budhiraja, N Kumar, S Tyagi, S Tanwar, Z Han… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the last few years, interference has been a major hurdle for successfully implementing
various end-user applications in the fifth-generation (5G) of wireless networks. During this …

Multiple access in cell-free networks: Outage performance, dynamic clustering, and deep reinforcement learning-based design

Y Al-Eryani, M Akrout, E Hossain - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In future cell-free (or cell-less) wireless networks, a large number of devices in a
geographical area will be served simultaneously in non-orthogonal multiple access …

Uplink spectral and energy efficiency of cell-free massive MIMO with optimal uniform quantization

M Bashar, HQ Ngo, K Cumanan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the performance of limited-fronthaul cell-free massive multiple-input
multiple-output (MIMO) taking account the fronthaul quantization and imperfect channel …

Intelligent massive MIMO systems for beyond 5G networks: An overview and future trends

O Elijah, SKA Rahim, WK New, CY Leow… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning (ML) which is a subset of artificial intelligence is expected to unlock the
potential of challenging large-scale problems in conventional massive multiple-input …

Exploiting deep learning in limited-fronthaul cell-free massive MIMO uplink

M Bashar, A Akbari, K Cumanan… - IEEE Journal on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) uplink is considered, where
quantize-and-forward (QF) refers to the case where both the channel estimates and the …

Learning-assisted user clustering in cell-free massive MIMO-NOMA networks

QN Le, VD Nguyen, OA Dobre… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The superior spectral efficiency (SE) and user fairness feature of non-orthogonal multiple
access (NOMA) systems are achieved by exploiting user clustering (UC) more efficiently …

Jointly optimized beamforming and power allocation for full-duplex cell-free NOMA in space-ground integrated networks

Q Gao, M Jia, Q Guo, X Gu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Space-ground integrated networks (SGINs) have attracted substantial research interests due
to their wide area coverage capability, where spectrum sharing is employed between the …

Performance analysis and optimization of NOMA-based cell-free massive MIMO for IoT

J Zhang, J Fan, J Zhang, DWK Ng… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates the performance of nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based
cell-free massive multiple-input–multiple-output (mMIMO) for the Internet of Things (IoT) …