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 …

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 …

Ubiquitous cell-free massive MIMO communications

G Interdonato, E Björnson, H Quoc Ngo… - EURASIP Journal on …, 2019 - Springer
Since the first cellular networks were trialled in the 1970s, we have witnessed an incredible
wireless revolution. From 1G to 4G, the massive traffic growth has been managed by a …

Cell-free massive MIMO for 6G wireless communication networks

H He, X Yu, J Zhang, S Song… - … of Communications and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recently commercialized fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks have achieved many
improvements, including air interface enhancement, spectrum expansion, and network …

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 …

RIS-aided cell-free massive MIMO systems for 6G: Fundamentals, system design, and applications

E Shi, J Zhang, H Du, B Ai, C Yuen… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An introduction of intelligent interconnectivity for people and things has posed higher
demands and more challenges for sixth-generation (6G) networks, such as high spectral …

Efficient angle-domain processing for FDD-based cell-free massive MIMO systems

A Abdallah, MM Mansour - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell-free massive MIMO communications is an emerging network technology for 5G wireless
communications wherein distributed multi-antenna access points (APs) serve many users …

Energy-efficient millimeter-wave cell-free systems under limited feedback

S Kim, B Shim - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
MmWave cell-free systems where multiple base stations (BSs) cooperatively serve user
using the mmWave band signal have gained much attention recently due to its capability to …

Angle-based multipath estimation and beamforming for FDD cell-free massive MIMO

A Abdallah, MM Mansour - 2019 IEEE 20th International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study frequency-division duplexing (FDD) based cell-free massive multiple-
input multiple-output (MIMO) systems wherein distributed multi-antenna access points (APs) …