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 …

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 …

Wireless energy transfer in RIS-aided cell-free massive MIMO systems: Opportunities and challenges

E Shi, J Zhang, S Chen, J Zheng… - IEEE …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In future 6G mobile networks, the Internet-of-Everything (IoE) is expected to provide
extremely massive connectivity for small battery-powered devices. Indeed, massive devices …

[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 …

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 …

Cell-free massive MIMO-OFDM for high-speed train communications

J Zheng, J Zhang, E Björnson, Z Li… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems show great potentials
in low-mobility scenarios, due to cell boundary disappearance and strong macro diversity …

Next-Generation Multiple Access With Cell-Free Massive MIMO

M Mohammadi, Z Mobini, HQ Ngo… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To meet the unprecedented mobile traffic demands of future wireless networks, a paradigm
shift from conventional cellular networks to distributed communication systems is imperative …

Distributed resource allocation optimization for user-centric cell-free MIMO networks

HA Ammar, R Adve, S Shahbazpanahi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We develop two distributed downlink resource allocation algorithms for user-centric, cell-
free, spatially-distributed, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks. In such networks …