Publikation
Superimposed Transmission for Cooperative Cellular and Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems
Wei Jiang; Hans Dieter Schotten
In: Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE 104th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2026-Fall). IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-2026), September 6-9, Boston, MA, USA, IEEE, 9/2026.
Zusammenfassung
This paper proposes a superimposed transmission strategy for cooperative cellular and cell-free massive MIMO systems. By classifying users into near and far, the base station transmits an additional data symbol for each near user, superimposed on the signals from distributed access points. Successive interference cancellation is employed at near-user receivers to decode both symbols. The proposed strategy achieves the highest peak spectral efficiency while maintaining fairness at the cell edge, thereby outperforming all the existing network configurations in system capacity.