On the Total Energy Efficiency of Cell-Free Massive MIMO

IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 25-39

  Ngo, Hien Quoc ^a   Tran, Le Nam ^b   Duong, Trung Q ^a   Matthaiou, Michail ^a   Larsson, Erik G ^c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cell free massive MIMO; conjugate beamforming; energy efficiency; massive MIMO; network MIMO

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BEAMFORMING; CELLS; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CYTOLOGY; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; MIMO SYSTEMS; POWER CONTROL; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

DOWNLINK; MASSIVE MIMO; NETWORK MIMO; POWER DEMANDS; UPLINK;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 85067531571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24732400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGCN.2017.2770215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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