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 …

[HTML][HTML] A survey on user-centric cell-free massive MIMO systems

S Chen, J Zhang, J Zhang, E Björnson, B Ai - Digital Communications and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The mobile data traffic has been exponentially growing during the last several decades. This
was enabled by the densification of the network infrastructure in terms of increased cell …

Foundations of user-centric cell-free massive MIMO

ÖT Demir, E Björnson… - Foundations and Trends …, 2021 - nowpublishers.com
Imagine a coverage area where each mobile device is communicating with a preferred set of
wireless access points (among many) that are selected based on its needs and cooperate to …

Cell-free massive MIMO: A new next-generation paradigm

J Zhang, S Chen, Y Lin, J Zheng, B Ai, L Hanzo - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems have a large number
of individually controllable antennas distributed over a wide area for simultaneously serving …

Indoor and outdoor physical channel modeling and efficient positioning for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces in mmWave bands

E Basar, I Yildirim, F Kilinc - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communication appears as one of the
potential enablers for sixth generation (6G) wireless networks by providing a new degree of …

User-centric 5G cellular networks: Resource allocation and comparison with the cell-free massive MIMO approach

S Buzzi, C D'Andrea, A Zappone… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, the so-called cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)
architecture has been introduced, wherein a very large number of distributed access points …

Channel estimation for cell-free mmWave massive MIMO through deep learning

Y Jin, J Zhang, S Jin, B Ai - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The combination of cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems along
with millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands is indeed one of most promising technological …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Application of cell-free massive MIMO in 5G and beyond 5G wireless networks: A survey

HI Obakhena, AL Imoize, FI Anyasi… - Journal of Engineering …, 2021 - Springer
In recent times, the rapid growth in mobile subscriptions and the associated demand for high
data rates fuels the need for a robust wireless network design to meet the required capacity …

Joint communication and localization in millimeter wave networks

G Kwon, A Conti, H Park, MZ Win - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Joint communication and localization will be a key in beyond 5G networks for emerging
context-aware applications such as Internet-of-Things and autonomous vehicles. In …