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 …

[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 …

Impact of channel aging on cell-free massive MIMO over spatially correlated channels

J Zheng, J Zhang, E Björnson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the impact of channel aging on the performance of cell-free (CF)
massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with both spatial correlation and pilot …

Local partial zero-forcing precoding for cell-free massive MIMO

G Interdonato, M Karlsson, E Björnson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is a promising distributed network
architecture for 5G-and-beyond systems. It guarantees ubiquitous coverage at high spectral …

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 …

Evolution of RAN architectures towards 6G: Motivation, development, and enabling technologies

J Chen, X Liang, J Xue, Y Sun, H Zhou… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this survey paper, we first provide insights on the evolution of radio access networks
(RANs) through investigating the existing paradigms and future trends towards 6G. We then …

Cell-free massive MIMO for wireless federated learning

TT Vu, DT Ngo, NH Tran, HQ Ngo… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a novel scheme for cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output
(CFmMIMO) networks to support any federated learning (FL) framework. This scheme allows …

[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 …

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 …