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 …

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 …

5G key technologies for smart railways

B Ai, AF Molisch, M Rupp, ZD Zhong - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Railway communications has attracted significant attention from both academia and
industries due to the booming development of railways, especially high-speed railways …

A comprehensive survey on millimeter wave communications for fifth-generation wireless networks: Feasibility and challenges

AN Uwaechia, NM Mahyuddin - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks will almost certainly operate in the high-bandwidth,
underutilized millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequency spectrum, which offers the potentiality of …

A joint precoding framework for wideband reconfigurable intelligent surface-aided cell-free network

Z Zhang, L Dai - IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thanks to the strong ability against the inter-cell interference, cell-free network is considered
as a promising technique to improve network capacity. However, further capacity …

A tutorial on extremely large-scale MIMO for 6G: Fundamentals, signal processing, and applications

Z Wang, J Zhang, H Du, D Niyato, S Cui… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO), which offers vast spatial
degrees of freedom, has emerged as a potentially pivotal enabling technology for the sixth …

Energy efficient user clustering, hybrid precoding and power optimization in terahertz MIMO-NOMA systems

H Zhang, H Zhang, W Liu, K Long… - IEEE Journal on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Terahertz (THz) band communication has been widely studied to meet the future demand for
ultra-high capacity. In addition, multi-input multi-output (MIMO) technique and non …

[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 …