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 …

A survey on model-based, heuristic, and machine learning optimization approaches in RIS-aided wireless networks

H Zhou, M Erol-Kantarci, Y Liu… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have received considerable attention as a key
enabler for envisioned 6G networks, for the purpose of improving the network capacity …

Reconfigurable intelligent surface-assisted cell-free massive MIMO systems over spatially-correlated channels

T Van Chien, HQ Ngo, S Chatzinotas… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell-Free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent
surface (RIS) are two promising technologies for application to beyond-5G networks. This …

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 …

How much does reconfigurable intelligent surface improve cell-free massive MIMO uplink with hardware impairments?

Y Zhang, H Zhao, W **a, W Xu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the uplink performance of a general cell-free massive multiple-input
multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system, in which all access points (APs) and user equipments …

Performance analysis of RIS-assisted cell-free massive MIMO systems with transceiver hardware impairments

Y Zhang, W **a, H Zhao, G Zheng… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrating reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) into cell-free massive multiple-input
multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising approach to enhance the coverage quality, spectral …

RIS-aided cell-free massive MIMO systems for 6G: Fundamentals, system design, and applications

E Shi, J Zhang, H Du, B Ai, C Yuen… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An introduction of intelligent interconnectivity for people and things has posed higher
demands and more challenges for sixth-generation (6G) networks, such as high spectral …

Reconfigurable intelligent surface aided multi-user communications: State-of-the-art techniques and open issues

M Munochiveyi, AC Pogaku, DT Do, AT Le… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communication is considered as an exciting
research topic in academic and industrial communities since it provides an emerging …

Two-timescale transmission design for RIS-aided cell-free massive MIMO systems

J Dai, J Ge, K Zhi, C Pan, Z Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the performance of a two-timescale transmission design for uplink
reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output …

Generalized superimposed training scheme in IRS-assisted cell-free massive MIMO systems

N Garg, H Ge, T Ratnarajah - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, for a cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system assisted with
intelligent reflective surface (IRS) panels, a generalized superimposed pilot (GSP) training …