Title
Pilot Assignment in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Based on the Hungarian Algorithm
Abstract
This letter focuses on the problem of pilot assignment in cell-free massive MIMO systems. Exploiting the well-known Hungarian algorithms, two procedures are proposed, one maximizing the system throughput, and the other one maximizing the fairness across users. The algorithms operate based on the knowledge of large-scale fading coefficients as a proxy for the distances between users in the system, and take into account both the uplink and downlink performance. Numerical results show that the proposed pilot assignment algorithms are effective and outperform the many competing alternatives available in the literature.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/LWC.2020.3020003
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Cell-free,massive MIMO,pilot assignment,Hungarian algorithm,wireless networks,B5G,6G
Journal
10
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
2162-2337
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefano Buzzi1195175.30
Carmen D'Andrea2957.31
Fresia Maria330.39
Zhang Yong-Ping430.39
Feng Shulan530.39