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One of the major challenges in the medium access control (MAC) protocol design over cognitive Ad Hoc networks (CAHNs) is how to efficiently utilize multiple opportunistic channels, which vary dynamically and are subject to limited power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-03 Yichen Wang , Pinyi Ren , Qinghe Du , Chao Zhang

A canonical use case of Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems involves a multi-antenna transmitter communicating with $K$ users and sensing targets in its vicinity. For this setup,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Xinze Lyu , Sundar Aditya , Bruno Clerckx

The existing medium access control (MAC) protocol of Wi-Fi networks (i.e., carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA)) suffers from poor performance in dense deployments due to the increasing number of collisions and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Jiantao Xin , Wensen Xu , Yucheng Cai , Taotao Wang , Shengli Zhang , Peng Liu , Ziyang Guo , Jiajun Luo

We consider the problem of rate allocation in a fading Gaussian multiple-access channel (MAC) with fixed transmission powers. Our goal is to maximize a general concave utility function of transmission rates over the throughput capacity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-10-08 Ali ParandehGheibi , Atilla Eryilmaz , Asuman Ozdaglar , Muriel Medard

Communication networks have multiple users, each sending and receiving messages. A multiple access channel (MAC) models multiple senders transmitting to a single receiver, such as the uplink from many mobile phones to a single base station.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Felix Leditzky , Mohammad A. Alhejji , Joshua Levin , Graeme Smith

We investigate energy-efficiency issues and resource allocation policies for time division multi-access (TDMA) over fading channels in the power-limited regime. Supposing that the channels are frequency-flat block-fading and transmitters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Xin Wang , Georgios B. Giannakis

Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) has been recognized as a promising multiple access technique for future wireless communication systems. Recent research demonstrates that RSMA can maintain its superiority without relying on Successive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Sibo Zhang , Bruno Clerckx , David Vargas

In this paper, an energy-efficient cross-layer design framework is proposed for cooperative relaying networks, which takes into account the influence of spectrum utilization probability. Specifically, random arrival traffic is considered…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-28 Kunlun Wang , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Yang Yang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Energy consumption is a main issue of concern in wireless networks. Energy minimization increases the time that networks' nodes work properly without recharging or substituting batteries. Another criterion for network performance is data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-13 Amirmahdi Khodaian , Babak H. Khalaj

This paper considers a cell-free massive multipleinput multiple-output (MIMO) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where distributed MIMO access points (APs) are used to jointly serve the communication users and detect the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Mohamed Elfiatoure , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

Recent trends suggest that cognitive radio based wireless networks will be frequency agile and the nodes will be equipped with multiple radios capable of tuning across large swaths of spectrum. The MAC scheduling problem in such networks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Avhishek Chatterjee , Supratim Deb , Kanthi Nagaraj , Vikram Srinivasan

This paper considers large random wireless networks where transmit-and-receive node pairs communicate within a certain range while sharing a common spectrum. By modeling the spatial locations of nodes based on stochastic geometry,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Namyoon Lee , Francois Baccelli , Robert W. Heath

We first propose a simple mathematical analysis framework for the Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) function of the recently ratified IEEE 802.11e standard. Our analysis considers the fact that the distributed random access systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-08-12 Inanc Inan , Feyza Keceli , Ender Ayanoglu

On a multi-antenna broadcast channel, simultaneous transmission to multiple users by joint beamforming and scheduling is capable of achieving high throughput, which grows double logarithmically with the number of users. The sum rate for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-27 Kaibin Huang , Robert W. Heath, , Jeffrey G. Andrews

With the increasing number of user equipment (UE) and data demands, denser access points (APs) are being employed. Resource allocation problems have been extensively researched with interference treated as noise. It is well understood that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Jing Li , Dongning Guo

Quality of service (QoS) for a network is characterized in terms of various parameters specifying packet delay and loss tolerance requirements for the application. The unpredictable nature of the wireless channel demands for application of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 M. Majid Butt , Eduard A. Jorswieck , Bjorn Ottersten

In previous studies on the capacity of orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) systems, it is usually assumed that co-channel interference (CCI) from adjacent cells is a Gaussian-distributed random variable. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-02 Qiang Huo , Meng Ma , Bingli Jiao

Medium Access Control (MAC) address randomization is a key component for privacy protection in Wi-Fi networks. Current proposals periodically change the mobile device MAC addresses when it disconnects from the Access Point (AP). This way…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Hongyu Jin , Panos Papadimitratos

Multi-beam antenna technologies have provided lots of promising solutions to many current challenges faced in wireless mesh networks. The antenna can establish several beamformings simultaneously and initiate concurrent transmissions or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Gang Wang , Yanyuan Qin

We consider distributed optimization over a $d$-dimensional space, where $K$ remote clients send coded gradient estimates over an {\em additive Gaussian Multiple Access Channel (MAC)} with noise variance $\sigma_z^2$. Furthermore, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Shubham Jha