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Communication systems are traditionally designed to have tight transmitter-receiver synchronization. This requirement has negligible overhead in the high-SNR regime. However, in many applications, such as wireless sensor networks,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Yu-Chih Huang , Urs Niesen , Piyush Gupta

We consider the minimization of the cost of actuation error under resource constraints for real-time tracking in wireless autonomous systems. A transmitter monitors the state of a discrete random process and sends updates to the receiver…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Emmanouil Fountoulakis , Nikolaos Pappas , Marios Kountouris

This work investigates a multi-user, multi-antenna uplink wireless system, in which multiple users transmit signals to a base station. Prior research has explored the potential for linear growth in spectral efficiency by employing multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Sajad Daei , Gabor Fodor , Mikael Skoglund

Traditional communication theory focuses on minimizing transmit power. However, communication links are increasingly operating at shorter ranges where transmit power can be significantly smaller than the power consumed in decoding. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-17 Pulkit Grover , Kristen Ann Woyach , Anant Sahai

Transmit beamforming is a versatile technique for signal transmission from an array of $N$ antennas to one or multiple users [1]. In wireless communications, the goal is to increase the signal power at the intended user and reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Emil Björnson , Mats Bengtsson , Björn Ottersten

The discovery of interstellar communication signals is complicated by the presence of radio interference. Consequently, interstellar communication signals are hypothesized to have properties that favor discovery in high levels of local…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-21 William J. Crilly

Recently, ambient backscatter communications has been introduced as a cutting-edge technology which enables smart devices to communicate by utilizing ambient radio frequency (RF) signals without requiring active RF transmission. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Nguyen Van Huynh , Dinh Thai Hoang , Xiao Lu , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang , Dong In Kim

It is difficult for free space optical communication to be applied in mobile communication due to the obstruction of obstacles in the environment, which is expected to be solved by reconfigurable intelligent surface technology. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-17 Haibo Wang , Zaichen Zhang , Bingcheng Zhu , Jian Dang , Liang Wu , Lei Wang , Kehan Zhang , Yidi Zhang

Due to the large power consumption in RF-circuitry of massive MIMO systems, practically relevant performance measures such as energy efficiency or bandwidth efficiency are neither necessarily monotonous functions of the total transmit power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Ali Bereyhi , Saba Asaad , Ralf R. Müller

The transmission rate of communication between radio telescopes on Earth and extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) is here calculated up to distances of 1000 light years. Both phase-shift-keying (PSK) and frequency-shift keying (FSK)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-01 P. A. Fridman

In broadcasting, one node of a network has a message that must be learned by all other nodes. We study deterministic algorithms for this fundamental communication task in a very weak model of wireless communication. The only signals sent by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Kokouvi Hounkanli , Andrzej Pelc

This report describes the design and proposal of a wireless link capable of broadcasting at 1 Gbps. For this application, isotropic antennas, 256 QAM modulation, and BER level less than 1e-5, without using error correction coding, were…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 David Noel

Energy efficiency is an important design criterion for wireless communications. When parallel frequency channels are used for multiuser transmission, the channel bandwidths and user power are adjusted to maximize the sum information rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Liang Dong , Xing Meng

Future Internet-of-Things (IoT) will connect billions of small computing devices embedded in the environment and support their device-to-device (D2D) communication. Powering this massive number of embedded devices is a key challenge of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Kaifeng Han , Kaibin Huang

Radio frequency (RF) wireless energy transfer (WET) is a promising technology for powering the growing ecosystem of Internet of Things (IoT) using power beacons (PBs). Recent research focuses on efficient PB architectures that can support…

New and novel way for resources allocation in wireless communication has been proposed in this paper. Under this new method, it has been shown that the required power budget becomes independent of the number of served terminals in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Mohammed Elmusrati

In many wireless communication systems, radios are subject to a duty cycle constraint, that is, a radio only actively transmits signals over a fraction of the time. For example, it is desirable to have a small duty cycle in some low power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-24 Lei Zhang , Hui Li , Dongning Guo

In the fifth generation era, the pervasive applications of Internet of Things and massive machine-type communications have initiated increasing research interests on the backscatter wireless powered communication (B-WPC) technique due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Qian Yang , Hui-Ming Wang , Tong-Xing Zheng , Zhu Han , Moon Ho Lee

For critical services, such as traffic safety and traffic efficiency, it is advisable to design systems with robustness as the main criteria, possibly at the price of reduced peak performance and efficiency. Ensuring robust communications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Keerthi Kumar Nagalapur , Erik G. Ström , Fredrik Brännström , Jan Carlsson , Kristian Karlsson

In this paper, we study the resource allocation and trajectory design for energy-efficient secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems where a UAV base station serves multiple legitimate ground users in the existence of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yuanxin Cai , Zhiqiang Wei , Ruide Li , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan