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 …

Ultradense cell-free massive MIMO for 6G: Technical overview and open questions

HQ Ngo, G Interdonato, EG Larsson… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultradense cell-free massive multiple-input–multiple-output (CF-MMIMO) has emerged as a
promising technology expected to meet the future ubiquitous connectivity requirements and …

White paper on broadband connectivity in 6G

N Rajatheva, I Atzeni, E Bjornson, A Bourdoux… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
This white paper explores the road to implementing broadband connectivity in future 6G
wireless systems. Different categories of use cases are considered, from extreme capacity …

[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 …

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 …

Hybrid knowledge-data driven channel semantic acquisition and beamforming for cell-free massive MIMO

Z Gao, S Liu, Y Su, Z Li, D Zheng - IEEE journal of selected …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article focuses on advancing outdoor wireless systems to better support ubiquitous
extended reality (XR) applications, and close the gap with current indoor wireless …

Downlink resource allocation in multiuser cell-free MIMO networks with user-centric clustering

HA Ammar, R Adve, S Shahbazpanahi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we optimize user scheduling, power allocation and beamforming in distributed
multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks implementing user-centric clustering. We …

Decentralized beamforming design for intelligent reflecting surface-enhanced cell-free networks

S Huang, Y Ye, M **ao, HV Poor… - IEEE wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell-free networks are considered to be a promising distributed network architecture to
satisfy the increasing number of users and high rate expectations in beyond-5G systems …

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 …

Distributed signal processing for extremely large-scale antenna array systems: State-of-the-art and future directions

Y Xu, EG Larsson, EA Jorswieck, X Li… - IEEE Journal of …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAA) play a critical role in enabling the
functionalities of next generation wireless communication systems. However, as the number …