Clustering and Beamforming for User-Centric Cell-Free Massive MIMO With Backhaul Capacity Limitation

This paper addresses the joint design of a beamformer and user-centric clustering for scalable cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) under severe quantization noise generated in backhaul links for central processing units (CPUs) cooperation. The system model comes up with a pla...

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Main Authors: Masaaki Ito, Shuto Fukue, Kengo Ando, Issei Kanno, Kosuke Yamazaki, Koji Ishibashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2024-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10373783/