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Project / CELL-LESS6G

Project: Distributed Access Design for Cell-less Smart 6G Networks

Acronym: CELL-LESS6G
Main Objective:
The CELL-LESS6G project investigates multiple solutions to be integrated into the upcoming generation of wireless networks (6G). The innovative aspects include the adoption of advanced communication technologies to address ultra-dense deployment scenarios capable of serving data-centric applications requiring stringent throughput, very low latency, and a huge density of connected devices. To this end, the project explores the innovative concept of cell-less networks, which breaks the conventional paradigm of associating a device with a single base station. On the contrary, CELL-LESS6G explores dissociated operation to support a user-centric paradigm where the devices can be served by several base stations simultaneously.
The solutions to be investigated in the project require a deep knowledge of wireless communication systems and computer networks, which are topics under the Telecommunications area, and more broadly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Reference: 2022.08786.PTDC
Funding: FCT
Start Date: 01-01-2023
End Date: 31-12-2025
Team: Rodolfo Alexandre Duarte Oliveira, Diogo Filipe Cardoso Pereira, João Francisco Martinho Ledo Guerreiro, Luís Filipe Lourenço Bernardo, Paulo da Costa Luis da Fonseca Pinto, Rui Miguel Henriques Dias Morgado Dinis, Pedro Miguel Figueiredo Amaral, Eugene Owilla Casmin, João Pedro Seco Ramos Vieira Ferreira, Diyar Salah Fadhil
Groups: Radio Systems – Lx
Partners: none
Local Coordinator: Rodolfo Alexandre Duarte Oliveira

Associated Publications
  • 17Papers in Journals
  • D. Macedo, D. Costa, J. Guerreiro, J. Madeira, R. Dinis, Quasi-Optimum Detection of Nonlinear OFDM: Performance Bounds and Receiver Design, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 73, No. 2, pp. 768 - 780, February, 2025 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
  • B. Lima, J. Matos-Carvalho, R. Dinis, D. B. da Costa, M.B. Beko, R. Oliveira, LSTM-Based Trajectory and Phase-Shift Prediction for RSMA Networks Assisted by AIRS, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 72, No. 11, pp. 6929 - 6942, November, 2024 | BibTex
  • B. Salah, R. Dinis, A Low Complexity Iterative SC-FDE Receiver for Massive MIMO Systems, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 73, No. 7, pp. 10405 - 10420, July, 2024,
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  • R. VERDECIA-PEÑA, R. Oliveira, J. ALONSO, Enhancing mmWave Channel Estimation: A Practical Experimentation Approach With Modeled Physical Layer Impairments Incorporated in Deep Learning Training, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Vol. 5, No., pp. 4138 - 4154, July, 2024 | Full text (PDF 5 MBs) | BibTex
  • A. Sabah, N. Balasubramanya, R. Oliveira, Performance Evaluation of Uplink Grant-Free Access Networks Based on Spreading-Based NOMA, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 11, No. 7, pp. 12953 - 12965, April, 2024 | Full text (PDF 964 KBs) | BibTex
  • D. Pereira Pereira, R. Oliveira, D. B. da Costa, H. Kim, Performance Analysis of Slotted-Aloha With Mandatory Access and Retries in a Finite Frame, IEEE Networking Letters, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 101 - 105, April, 2024 | BibTex
  • J. Madeira, R. Dinis, J. Guerreiro, Receiver Design for OFDM Schemes With Low-Resolution ADCs, IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 632 - 642, April, 2024,
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  • J. Ferreira, PMC Carvalho, J. Guerreiro, R. Dinis, On the Use of Near-Field Constellation Focusing for Physical Layer Security with Extremely Large Antenna Arrays, Electronics, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 869 - 869, February, 2024 | Full text (PDF 377 KBs) | BibTex
  • O. Belkacem, R. Dinis, M. AMMARI, Nonlinear Effects in NOMA Systems Using Single Carrier Modulations: Performance Evaluation and Receiver Design, IEEE Access, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 38057 - 38070, February, 2024,
    | Abstract     | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
  • D. Macedo, J. Guerreiro, R. Dinis, S. Hu, On the Design of Nonlinear Characteristics That Optimize Maximum Likelihood OFDM Performance, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 72, No. 12, pp. 16882 - 16886, December, 2023 | Full text (PDF 484 KBs) | BibTex
  • J. Pereira, E. Casmin, R. Oliveira, A Passive RF Testbed for Human Posture Classification in FM Radio Bands, Sensors, Vol. 23, No. 23, pp. 9563 - 9563, December, 2023 | Full text (PDF 3 MBs) | BibTex
  • J. Ferreira, J. Guerreiro, R. Dinis, Physical Layer Security with Near-field Beamforming, IEEE Access, Vol. 12, No. -, pp. 4801 - 4811, December, 2023 | Full text (PDF 2 MBs) | BibTex
  • R. VERDECIA-PEÑA, R. Oliveira, J. ALONSO, A Flexible mmWave Layer 2 Protocol Implementation for Integrated Access and Backhaul Architecture, IEEE Access, Vol. 11, No. 0, pp. 52949 - 52968, June, 2023 | Full text (PDF 2 MBs) | BibTex
  • A. Rajaram, J. Guerreiro, R. Dinis, D. Jayakody, M.B. Beko, Optimum Performance Analysis and Receiver Design for OFDM based Frequency-Splitting SWIPT with Strong Nonlinear Effects, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 10, No. 23, pp. 20928 - 20940, June, 2023 | BibTex
  • J. Guerreiro, R. Dinis, PMC Carvalho, Potential Optimum Performance of Nonlinearly Distorted MIMO-SVD Systems, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 72, No. 5, pp. 6142 - 6153, May, 2023 | BibTex
  • J. G. Gonçalves, M. Nogueira, D. Macedo, J. Guerreiro, R. Dinis, On the Optimum Detection of MIMO-SVD Signals with Strong Nonlinear Distortion Effects at the Transmitter, IEEE Access, Vol. 13, No., pp. 3230 - 3241, 2024,
    | Abstract     | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
  • R. Dinis, S. Hu, Kapetanovic, Joint Channel and Nonlinearity Estimation for Memoryless Nonlinear Systems, IEEE Access, Vol. 13, No., pp. 13143 - 13155, 2025,
    | Abstract     | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
  • 14Papers in Conferences
  • P. C. Candeias, R. Oliveira, Impact of Antenna Mobility Patterns on the Capacity of Movable Antenna Systems, IEEE Conference on Standards and Communication Networking - CSCN, Belgrade, Serbia, November, 2024 | BibTex
  • A. Sabah, R. Oliveira, Distributed Access in Full-duplex Directional Multi-Packet Reception Wireless Networks, International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems ISWCS, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July, 2024 | BibTex
  • B. Lima, R. Dinis, D. B. da Costa, M.B. Beko, R. Oliveira, Trajectory Design for RSMA Networks Assisted by AIRS with LSTM and Transformers, IEEE International Symp. on Wireless Communication Systems - ISWCS, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vol., pp. -, July, 2024,
    | Abstract     | Full text (PDF 928 KBs) | BibTex
  • D. Pereira Pereira, R. Oliveira, H. Kim, D. B. da Costa, Characterization of the Beamforming Training Interruption in IEEE 802.11ay Networks, IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks - LANMAN, Boston, United States, July, 2024 | BibTex
  • D. Macedo, D. C. Costa, J. Guerreiro, R. Dinis, Receiver Design for OFDM Signals with Strong Nonlinear Distortion Effects, IEEE Communications Society IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC, Denver, United States, Vol., pp. -, June, 2024 | BibTex
  • J. Ferreira, D. Macedo, J. Guerreiro, R. Dinis, Optimized Beamforming Design for PLS in Near-field Uplink Communications, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring), Singapore, Singapore, June, 2024 | BibTex
  • E. Casmin, R. Oliveira, Feature Extraction using Variational Auto-encoder for Radar-based Posture Detection Systems, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring), Singapore, Singapore, Vol., pp. -, June, 2024 | BibTex
  • I. Pereira, L. Bernardo, R. Oliveira, P. Pinto, Radio frequency fingerprinting using autoencoder generated features on IEEE 802.15.4 networks, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring), Singapore, Singapore, Vol., pp. -, June, 2024,
    | Abstract     | Full text (PDF 2 MBs) | BibTex
  • D. Pereira Pereira, R. Oliveira, D. B. da Costa, H. Kim, Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11ay Sectors Sweep Management, IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference - MELECON, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, June, 2024,
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  • J. G. Gonçalves, M. Nogueira, D. Macedo, J. Guerreiro, R. Dinis, Quasi-Optimum Detection of MIMO-SVD Signals with Strong Nonlinear Distortion Effects, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring), Singapore, Singapore, June, 2024 | BibTex
  • R. VERDECIA-PEÑA, R. Oliveira, J. ALONSO, 5G Wireless Channel Estimation: Addressing PHY-Layer Impairments Through Model-Based Deep Learning, IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference - MELECON, Porto, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, June, 2024 | Full text (PDF 842 KBs) | BibTex
  • D. Fadhil, R. Oliveira, Estimation of 5G End-to-End Delay through Deep Learning based on Gaussian Mixture Models, IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking, Munich, Germany, Vol., pp. -, November, 2023 | Full text (PDF 447 KBs) | BibTex
  • J. Ferreira, J. Guerreiro, R. Dinis, M. Silva, On the Jamming Rejection Features of Near-Field Beamforming, IEEE IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2023-Spring VTC2023-Spring, Florence, Italy, Vol., pp. -, June, 2023,
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  • R. VERDECIA-PEÑA, R. Oliveira, J. ALONSO, Novel Out-of-Band mmWave Layer 2 Protocol for 5G Network-Based Downlink IAB SDR Platform, IEEE IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2023-Spring VTC2023-Spring, Firenze, Italy, Vol., pp. -, June, 2023 | BibTex
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