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Ubiquitous cell-free Massive MIMO communications
Linköping Univ, Dept Elect Engn ISY, S-58183 Linköping, Sweden..ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6078-835X
Linköping Univ, Dept Elect Engn ISY, S-58183 Linköping, Sweden..ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5954-434x
Ericsson AB, Ericsson Res, S-58330 Linköping, Sweden..
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2019 (English)In: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, ISSN 1687-1472, E-ISSN 1687-1499, article id 197Article, review/survey (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Since the first cellular networks were trialled in the 1970s, we have witnessed an incredible wireless revolution. From 1G to 4G, the massive traffic growth has been managed by a combination of wider bandwidths, refined radio interfaces, and network densification, namely increasing the number of antennas per site. Due its cost-efficiency, the latter has contributed the most. Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is a key 5G technology that uses massive antenna arrays to provide a very high beamforming gain and spatially multiplexing of users and hence increases the spectral and energy efficiency (see references herein). It constitutes a centralized solution to densify a network, and its performance is limited by the inter-cell interference inherent in its cell-centric design. Conversely, ubiquitous cell-free Massive MIMO refers to a distributed Massive MIMO system implementing coherent user-centric transmission to overcome the inter-cell interference limitation in cellular networks and provide additional macro-diversity. These features, combined with the system scalability inherent in the Massive MIMO design, distinguish ubiquitous cell-free Massive MIMO from prior coordinated distributed wireless systems. In this article, we investigate the enormous potential of this promising technology while addressing practical deployment issues to deal with the increased back/front-hauling overhead deriving from the signal co-processing.

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SPRINGEROPEN , 2019. article id 197
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Cell-free Massive MIMO, Distributed processing, Radio stripe system
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-295853DOI: 10.1186/s13638-019-1507-0ISI: 000478912900003Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85070206723OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-295853DiVA, id: diva2:1663823
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Available from: 2022-06-02 Created: 2022-06-02 Last updated: 2022-06-25Bibliographically approved

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