@ARTICLE {33989, author={J. Kassam and D. Castanheira and A. Silva and R. Dinis and A. Gameiro}, doi={10.1109/TCOMM.2023.3310533}, journal={IEEE Transactions on Communications}, title={Joint Decoding and UE-APs Association for Scalable Cell-Free Systems}, year={2023}, month={December}, volume={71}, number={12}, pages={7303-7315}, ISSN={0090-6778} }