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6 papers

eess.SP2026

Statistical Channel Model for FSO Systems Assisted by a UAV-Mounted IRS

Ferdaous Tarhouni, Vasilis K. Papanikolaou, Laura Cottatellucci +2

Integrating optical intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) into aerial platforms, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has been proposed to relax the line-of-sight (LoS) constr…

cs.IT2026

On the Identifiability of Semi-Blind Estimation in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks

Christian Forsch, Laura Cottatellucci

Semi-blind joint channel estimation and data detection (JCD) is a promising approach to mitigate pilot contamination in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-MaMIMO)…

cs.IT2026

Expectation Propagation for Distributed Inference in Grant-Free Cell-Free Massive MIMO

Christian Forsch, Laura Cottatellucci

Grant-free cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (GF-CF-MaMIMO) systems are anticipated to be a key enabling technology for next-generation Internet-of-Things (IoT) netw…

cs.IT2025

Bayesian Learning for Pilot Decontamination in Cell-Free Massive MIMO

Christian Forsch, Zilu Zhao, Dirk Slock +1

Pilot contamination (PC) arises when the pilot sequences assigned to user equipments (UEs) are not mutually orthogonal, eventually due to their reuse. In this work, we propose a no…

cs.IT2025

Distributed Iterative ML and Message Passing for Grant-Free Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems

Zilu Zhao, Christian Forsch, Laura Cottatellucci +1

Cell-Free (CF) Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MaMIMO) is considered one of the leading candidates for enabling next-generation wireless communication. With the growing int…

cs.IT2025

Distributed Joint User Activity Detection, Channel Estimation, and Data Detection via Expectation Propagation in Cell-Free Massive MIMO

Christian Forsch, Alexander Karataev, Laura Cottatellucci

We consider the uplink of a grant-free cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (GF-CF-MaMIMO) system. We propose an algorithm for distributed joint activity detection, cha…