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Wireless cellular networks evolve towards a heterogeneous infrastructure, featuring multiple types of Base Stations (BSs), such as Femto BSs (FBSs) and Macro BSs (MBSs). A wireless device observes multiple points (BSs) through which it can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Katerina Smiljkovikj , Petar Popovski , Liljana Gavrilovska

In WiFi networks, mobile nodes compete for accessing a shared channel by means of a random access protocol called Distributed Coordination Function (DCF). Although this protocol is in principle fair, since all the stations have the same…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 I. Tinnirello , L. Giarré , G. Neglia

We consider the distributed uplink resource allocation problem in a multi-carrier wireless network with multiple access points (APs). Each mobile user can optimize its own transmission rate by selecting a suitable AP and by controlling its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Mingyi Hong , Alfredo Garcia , Jorge Barrera , Stephen G. Wilson

With the emergence of fluid antenna (FA) in wireless communications, the capability to dynamically adjust port positions offers substantial benefits in spatial diversity and spectrum efficiency, which are particularly valuable for mobile…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Ying Ju , Mingdong Li , Haoyu Wang , Lei Liu , Youyang Qu , Mianxiong Dong , Victor C. M. Leung , Chau Yuen

WiFi's popularity has led to crowded scenarios composed of many Access Points (AP) and clients, often operating on overlapping channels, producing interference that gravely degrades performance. This misallocation of resources is often the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Luis Sanabria-Russo , Boris Bellalta , Nicolò Facchi , Francesco Gringoli

We develop a novel graph-based trainable framework to maximize the weighted sum energy efficiency (WSEE) for power allocation in wireless communication networks. To address the non-convex nature of the problem, the proposed method consists…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-19 Boning Li , Gunjan Verma , Santiago Segarra

A promising solution satisfying the industry's demand to have minimum alterations in LTE for its operation in unlicensed spectrum is duty cycled LTE-U scheme, which adopts discontinuous transmission to ensure fair coexistence with 802.11…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Anand M. Baswade , Touheed Anwar Atif , Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma , Antony Franklin A

The latest WiFi standard, IEEE 802.11ax (WiFi 6), introduces a novel uplink random access mechanism called uplink orthogonal frequency division multiple access-based random access (UORA). While existing work has evaluated the performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jingwei Liu , Qian Wang , He Chen

Admission control as a mechanism for providing QoS requires an accurate description of the requested flow as well as already admitted flows. Since 802.11 WLAN capacity is shared between flows belonging to all stations, admission control…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Preetam Patil , Varsha Apte

The IEEE 802.11 backoff algorithm is very important for controlling system throughput over contentionbased wireless networks. For this reason, there are many studies on wireless network performance focus on developing backoff algorithms.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Hatm Alkadeki , Xingang Wang , Michael Odetayo

Licensed Shared Access (LSA) is a spectrum sharing mechanism where bandwidth is shared between a primary network, called incumbent, and a secondary mobile network. In this work, we address dynamic spectrum management mechanisms for LSA…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-05 M. Majid Butt , Irene Macaluso , Carlo Galiotto , Nicola Marchetti

The 802.11E Task Group has been established to enhance Quality of Service (QoS) provision for time-bounded services in the current IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol. The QoS is introduced throughout Hybrid Coordination…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Mohammed A. Al-Maqri , Mohamed Othman , Borhanuddin Mohd Ali , Zurina Mohd Hanapi

Joint access point (AP) association and physical carrier sensing (PCS) threshold selection has the potential to improve the performance in high density wireless LANs (WLANs) under high contention, interference and self-interference (SI)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Phillip B. Oni , Steven D. Blostein

Wireless networking is becoming an increasingly important and popular way of providing global information access to users on the move. One of the main challenges for seamless mobility is the availability of simple and robust handoff…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Siva Alagu , T. Meyyappan

Platooning strategy is an important part of autonomous driving technology. Due to the limited resource of autonomous vehicles in platoons, mobile edge computing (MEC) is usually used to assist vehicles in platoons to obtain useful…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Qiong Wu , Ziyang Wan , Qiang Fan , Pingyi Fan , Jiangzhou Wang

The mobile edge computing framework offers the opportunity to reduce the energy that devices must expend to complete computational tasks. The extent of that energy reduction depends on the nature of the tasks, and on the choice of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Mahsa Salmani , Timothy N. Davidson

Recent advances in physical layer communication techniques, enable receivers to decode multiple simultaneous transmissions. This technique is known as the multipacket reception (MPR). In this paper, we propose an enhancement to the IEEE…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Arun I B , T. G. Venkatesh , Bhasker Dappuri

We consider the scheduling and resource allocation problem in AP-initiated uplink OFDMA transmissions of IEEE 802.11ax networks. The uplink OFDMA resource allocation problem is known to be non-convex and difficult to solve in general.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Konstantinos Dovelos , Boris Bellalta

The evolution of the IEEE 802.11 standards marks a significant throughput advancement in wireless access technologies, progressively increasing bandwidth capacities from 20 MHz in the IEEE 802.11a to up to 320 MHz in the latest IEEE…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Dongyu Wei , Liu Cao , Lyutianyang Zhang , Xiangyu Gao , Hao Yin

Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) are expected to play a central role in future 6G infrastructures, yet uplink transmissions of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) remain vulnerable to eavesdropping due to their limited transmit power,…

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