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Abstract
Stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM) technology, enabling dynamic wavefront manipulation of electromagnetic propagation environments, has been integrated into cell-free massive MIMO (mMIMO) systems to augment access point capabilities. In this letter, we investigate the impact of channel aging induced by the high-speed motion of trains on SIM-enhanced cell-free mMIMO systems. We derive closed-form expressions for achievable spectral efficiency (SE) in both uplink and downlink transmissions under imperfect channel state information with channel aging effects, and further optimizes uplink sum SE through a novel implementation of weighted minimum mean square error-based power allocation scheme along with a scalable group-based SIM beamforming algorithm. Simulation results demonstrate that SIM-enhanced cell-free mMIMO can reduce the degradation of system performance caused by channel aging compared to traditional cell-free mMIMO systems especially in strong line-of-sight environments.
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The IEEE Communications Letters publishes short papers in a rapid publication cycle on advances in the state-of-the-art of communication over different media and channels including wire, underground, waveguide, optical fiber, and storage channels. Both theoretical contributions (including new techniques, concepts, and analyses) and practical contributions (including system experiments and prototypes, and new applications) are encouraged. This journal focuses on the physical layer and the link layer of communication systems.