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Mobility Management in mmWave Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Computer Science, Communication Systems, CoS. (Communication Systems)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6260-7241
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Computer Science, Communication Systems, CoS. (Communication Systems)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5954-434x
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Computer Science, Communication Systems, CoS. Rwth Aachen University, Mobile Communications and Computing, Germany. (Communication Systems)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3876-2214
2023 (English)In: ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2023Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This paper addresses mobility management in the downlink of a mmWave cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) network with imperfect channel knowledge obtained from pilot training. The network consists of a large number of geographically distributed access points (APs) simultaneously serving multiple user equipments (UEs) via coherent joint transmission. The objective is to extend traditional handover concepts to the challenging AP-UE association strategies of cell-free networks. To this end, we propose a distributed algorithm for joint pilot assignment and cluster formation in a dynamic environment considering UE mobility. The primary goal is to limit the necessary number of AP and pilot changes, with reasonable computational complexity. We evaluate the performance in terms of the spectral efficiency with maximum ratio and regularized zero-forcing precoding. Results show that our proposed distributed algorithm effectively identifies the essential AP-UE association refinements. Moreover, it provides a significantly lower average number of pilot changes compared to an ultra-dense network.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2023.
Series
IEEE International Conference on Communications, E-ISSN 1938-1883
Keywords [en]
cell-free massive MIMO, handover, mobility management
National Category
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-326360DOI: 10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10279192ISI: 001094862606101Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85178297950OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-326360DiVA, id: diva2:1819608
Conference
2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2023, Rome, Italy, 28 May - 1 June 2023
Funder
Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research
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Part of ISBN 978-153867462-8

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Available from: 2023-04-30 Created: 2023-12-14 Last updated: 2024-03-12Bibliographically approved

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Zaher, MahmoudBjörnson, EmilPetrova, Marina

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