What will the future of UAV cellular communications be? A flight from 5G to 6G

G Geraci, A Garcia-Rodriguez, MM Azari… - … surveys & tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
What will the future of UAV cellular communications be? In this tutorial article, we address
such a compelling yet difficult question by embarking on a journey from 5G to 6G and …

[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 …

Local partial zero-forcing combining for cell-free massive MIMO systems

J Zhang, J Zhang, E Björnson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) provides more uniform spectral
efficiency (SE) for users (UEs) than cellular technology. The main challenge to achieve the …

Downlink spectral efficiency of cell-free massive MIMO systems with multi-antenna users

TC Mai, HQ Ngo, TQ Duong - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where
its access points (APs) and users are equipped with multiple antennas. Two transmission …

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 …

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 …

Cell-free UAV networks: Asymptotic analysis and deployment optimization

C Diaz-Vilor, A Lozano… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, cell-free (CF) architectures, in which every user can potentially communicate with
every base station, have received a lot of attention. This paper considers the uplink of fully …

Fully-decoupled radio access networks: A resilient uplink base stations cooperative reception framework

J Zhao, Q Yu, B Qian, K Yu, Y Xu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To cope with the even more urgent spectrum and energy efficiency challenge for trillion-level
terminal access and data uploading in the next generation mobile communication network …

Enhanced normalized conjugate beamforming for cell-free massive MIMO

G Interdonato, HQ Ngo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) the fluctuations of the channel
gain from the access points to a user are large due to the distributed topology of the system …