Ultradense Cell-Free Massive MIMO for 6G: Technical Overview and Open Questions

HQ Ngo, G Interdonato, EG Larsson… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultradense cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-MMIMO) has emerged as a
promising technology expected to meet the future ubiquitous connectivity requirements and …

Subspace-based pilot decontamination in user-centric scalable cell-free wireless networks

F Göttsch, N Osawa, T Ohseki… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a cell-free wireless system operated in Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode with
user-centric clusters of remote radio units (RUs). Since the uplink pilot dimensions per …

User-Centric Cell-Free Wireless Networks for 6G: Communication Theoretic Models and Research Challenges

F Göttsch, G Caire, W Xu, M Schubert - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.06669, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a comprehensive communication theoretic model for the physical layer
of a cell-free user-centric network, formed by user equipments (UEs), radio units (RUs), and …

Fairness scheduling in user-centric cell-free massive MIMO wireless networks

F Göttsch, N Osawa, I Kanno, T Ohseki… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a user-centric cell-free massive MIMO wireless network with L remote radio
units, each with M antennas, serving K single-antenna user devices (UEs). Most of the …

Tight differentiable relaxation of sum ergodic capacity maximization for clustered cell-free networking

B Ren, H Hao, Z Lyu, J Peng, J Wang… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Clustered cell-free networking emerges as a promising paradigm for future communication
systems. To optimize clustered cell-free networking, we aim to maximize the sum ergodic …

Fairness Scheduling in Dense User-Centric Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks

F Göttsch, N Osawa, T Ohseki, Y Amano… - 2022 56th Asilomar …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a user-centric scalable cell-free massive MIMO network with a total of LM
distributed remote radio unit antennas serving K user equipments (UEs). Many works in the …

User-Centric Clustering Under Fairness Scheduling in Cell-Free Massive MIMO

F Göttsch, N Osawa, T Ohseki, Y Amano… - 2023 IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider fairness scheduling in a user-centric cell-free massive MIMO network, where L
remote radio units, each with M antennas, serve K≈LM user equipments (UEs). Recent …

Overloaded Pilot Assignment with Pilot Decontamination for Cell-Free Systems

N Osawa, F Göttsch, I Kanno, T Ohseki… - 2023 IEEE Wireless …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The pilot contamination in cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) must
be addressed for accommodating a large number of users. In previous works, we have …

Architectures and signal processing algorithms for cell-free user-centric wireless networks

F Göttsch - 2024 - search.proquest.com
In recent years, spatially distributed deployments of multi-antenna networks have received
considerable research attention with the aim to meet the predicted demands of future …

QoS-Aware Downlink Beamforming for Joint Transmission in Multi-Cell Networks

CY Lin, KHS Liu - 2023 Asia Pacific Signal and Information …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-cell cooperation is an effective means to improve service quality to cellular users.
Existing work primarily focuses on interference cancellation using all the degrees of freedom …