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Scalable Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems
Linköping University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Communication Systems. Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5954-434X
Univ Pisa, Italy.
2020 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Communications, ISSN 0090-6778, E-ISSN 1558-0857, Vol. 68, no 7, p. 4247-4261Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

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 potentially resolve many of the interference issues that appear in current cellular networks. This ambition was previously called Network MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) and has recently reappeared under the name Cell-Free Massive MIMO. The main challenge is to achieve the benefits of cell-free operation in a practically feasible way, with computational complexity and fronthaul requirements that are scalable to large networks with many users. We propose a new framework for scalable Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems by exploiting the dynamic cooperation cluster concept from the Network MIMO literature. We provide a novel algorithm for joint initial access, pilot assignment, and cluster formation that is proved to be scalable. Moreover, we adapt the standard channel estimation, precoding, and combining methods to become scalable. A new uplink and downlink duality is proved and used to heuristically design the precoding vectors on the basis of the combining vectors. Interestingly, the proposed scalable precoding and combining outperform conventional maximum ratio (MR) processing and also performs closely to the best unscalable alternatives.

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IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC , 2020. Vol. 68, no 7, p. 4247-4261
Keywords [en]
MIMO communication; Correlation; Channel estimation; Heuristic algorithms; Power control; Antennas; Interference; Cell-free massive MIMO; scalable implementation; centralized and distributed algorithms; dynamic cooperation clustering; user-centric networking; uplink-downlink duality
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Communication Systems
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-168201DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2020.2987311ISI: 000552840100025OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-168201DiVA, id: diva2:1460226
Note

Funding Agencies|ELLIIT; Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP); University of Pisa under the PRA 2018-2019 Research Project CONCEPT; Italian Ministry of Education and Research (MIUR)Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR)

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