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 …

Prospective multiple antenna technologies for beyond 5G

J Zhang, E Björnson, M Matthaiou… - IEEE Journal on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiple antenna technologies have attracted much research interest for several decades
and have gradually made their way into mainstream communication systems. Two main …

Scalable cell-free massive MIMO systems

E Björnson, L Sanguinetti - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Imagine a coverage area with many wireless access points that cooperate to jointly serve
the users, instead of creating autonomous cells. Such a cell-free network operation can …

Making cell-free massive MIMO competitive with MMSE processing and centralized implementation

E Björnson, L Sanguinetti - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell-free Massive MIMO is considered as a promising technology for satisfying the
increasing number of users and high rate expectations in beyond-5G networks. The key idea …

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 …

Cell-free massive MIMO for wireless federated learning

TT Vu, DT Ngo, NH Tran, HQ Ngo… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a novel scheme for cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output
(CFmMIMO) networks to support any federated learning (FL) framework. This scheme allows …

Local partial zero-forcing precoding for cell-free massive MIMO

G Interdonato, M Karlsson, E Björnson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is a promising distributed network
architecture for 5G-and-beyond systems. It guarantees ubiquitous coverage at high spectral …

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 …