Autors: Dessie B., Shaikh J., Iliev, G. L., Nenova, M. V., Syed U., Kumar K.K.
Title: Performance Evaluation of Uplink Cell-Free Massive MIMO Network Under Weichselberger Rician Fading Channel
Keywords: access point, energy efficiency, phase-aware element-wise minimum mean square error, phase-aware minimum mean square error, spectral efficiency, throughput

Abstract: Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF M-MIMO) is one of the most promising technologies for future wireless communication such as 5G and beyond fifth-generation (B5G) networks. It is a type of network technology that uses a massive number of distributed antennas to serve a large number of users at the same time. It has the ability to provide high spectral efficiency (SE) as well as improved coverage and interference management, compared to traditional cellular networks. However, estimating the channel with high-performance, low-cost computational methods is still a problem. Different algorithms have been developed to address these challenges in channel estimation. One of the high-performance channel estimators is a phase-aware minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimator. This channel estimator has high computational complexity. To address the shortcomings of the existing estimator, this paper proposed an efficient phase-aware element-wise minimum mean square error (PA-EW-MMSE) channel estimator with QR decomposition and a precoding matrix at the user side. The closed form uplink (UL) SE with the phase MMSE and proposed estimators are evaluated using MMSE combining. The energy efficiency and area throughput are also calculated from the SE. The simulation results show that the proposed estimator achieved the best SE, EE, and area throughput performance with a substantial reduction in the complexity of the computation.

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Mathematics, vol. 13, 2025, Switzerland, https://doi.org/10.3390/math13142283

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