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 …

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 …

[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 …

Performance analysis of cell-free massive MIMO system with limited fronthaul capacity and hardware impairments

H Masoumi, MJ Emadi - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study uplink of cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output system with limited
capacity fronthaul link connecting each access point (AP) to a central processing unit (CPU) …

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 …

Joint power allocation and load balancing optimization for energy-efficient cell-free massive MIMO networks

T Van Chien, E Björnson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Large-scale distributed antenna systems with many access points (APs) that serve the users
by coherent joint transmission is being considered for 5G-and-beyond networks. The …

Performance analysis and power control of cell-free massive MIMO systems with hardware impairments

J Zhang, Y Wei, E Björnson, Y Han, S Jin - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As an interesting network architecture for future wireless communication systems, cellfree
(CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) distributes an excess number of access …

[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 …