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] Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output challenges and opportunities: A survey

M Ajmal, A Siddiqa, B Jeong, J Seo, D Kim - ICT Express, 2024 - Elsevier
Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) system is a state-of-the-art
emerging technology targeted towards beyond fifth-generation (B5G) and sixth-generation …

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 …

On the uplink max–min SINR of cell-free massive MIMO systems

M Bashar, K Cumanan, AG Burr… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output system is considered using a max-min
approach to maximize the minimum user rate with per-user power constraints. First, an …

Energy efficiency of the cell-free massive MIMO uplink with optimal uniform quantization

M Bashar, K Cumanan, AG Burr… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) uplink is considered, where the
access points (APs) are connected to a central processing unit (CPU) through limited …

Max–min rate of cell-free massive MIMO uplink with optimal uniform quantization

M Bashar, K Cumanan, AG Burr… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) is considered, where distributed
access points (APs) multiply the received signal by the conjugate of the estimated channel …

Uplink spectral and energy efficiency of cell-free massive MIMO with optimal uniform quantization

M Bashar, HQ Ngo, K Cumanan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the performance of limited-fronthaul cell-free massive multiple-input
multiple-output (MIMO) taking account the fronthaul quantization and imperfect channel …

Exploiting deep learning in limited-fronthaul cell-free massive MIMO uplink

M Bashar, A Akbari, K Cumanan… - IEEE Journal on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) uplink is considered, where
quantize-and-forward (QF) refers to the case where both the channel estimates and the …