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Distributed MIMO has long been known theoretically to bring large throughput gains to wireless networks. Recent years have seen significant interest and progress in developing practical distributed MIMO systems. However, these systems only distribute the transmission function across the multiple nodes. The control fabric that synchronizes the nodes to a common reference phase still fundamentally requires a single leader that all nodes in the network are capable of hearing.
Hamed et al. (Tue,) studied this question.