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Full-duplex (FD) communications with bidirectional transmitting and receiving at the same time and frequency radio resource have long been deemed a promising way to boost spectrum efficiency, but hindered by the techniques for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Rongpeng Li , Yan Chen , Geoffrey Ye Li , Guangyi Liu

Given the critical dependence of broadcast channels by the accuracy of channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT), we develop a general downlink model with zero-forcing (ZF) precoding, applied in realistic heterogeneous cellular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Tharm Ratnarajah

Multiuser multiple-input multiple-output wireless communications systems have the potential to satisfy the performance requirements of fifth-generation and future wireless networks. In this context, cell-free (CF) systems, where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-06 André Flores , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Kumar Vijay Mishra

We consider a heterogeneous cellular network (HetNet) where a macrocell tier with a large antenna array base station (BS) is overlaid with a dense tier of small cells (SCs). We investigate the potential benefits of incorporating a massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Marios Kountouris , Nikolaos Pappas

Over the last decade, the growing amount of UL and DL mobile data traffic has been characterized by substantial asymmetry and time variations. Dynamic time-division duplex (TDD) has the capability to accommodate to the traffic asymmetry by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Hongguang Sun , Matthias Wildemeersch , Min Sheng , Tony Q. S. Quek

The decoupling of data and control planes, as proposed for 5G networks, will enable the efficient implementation of multitier networks where user equipment (UE) nodes obtain coverage and connectivity through the top-tier macro-cells, and,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu , Giuseppe Caire , Ratheesh K. Mungara , Haralabos C. Papadopoulos , Chenwei Wang

In this paper we present the first comprehensive study of the multi-user capacity of millimeter-wave (mm-wave) urban cellular networks, using site-specific ray-tracing propagation data and realistic antenna array patterns. We compare the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Aleksandar Ichkov , Daniel Sialkowski , Petri Mähönen , Ljiljana Simić

In this paper, we investigate a cell-free massive MIMO system with both access points (APs) and user equipments (UEs) equipped with multiple antennas over jointly-correlated Rayleigh fading channels. We study four uplink implementations,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Zhe Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Bo Ai , Chau Yuen , Mérouane Debbah

Densification of network base stations is indispensable to achieve the stringent Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of future mobile networks. However, with a dense deployment of transmitters, interference management becomes an arduous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Hussein A. Ammar , Raviraj Adve , Shahram Shahbazpanahi , Gary Boudreau , Kothapalli Venkata Srinivas

Interference is emerging as a fundamental bottleneck in many important wireless communication scenarios, including dense cellular networks and cognitive networks with spectrum sharing by multiple service providers. Although multipleantenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-16 P. de Kerret , D. Gesbert

The uplink of interference-limited cellular networks with base stations that have large numbers of antennas and use linear Minimum-Mean-Square Error (MMSE) processing with power control is analyzed. Simple approximations, which are exact in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Siddhartan Govindasamy

This paper studies the carrier-to-interference ratio (CIR) and carrier-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (CINR) performance at the mobile station (MS) within a multi-tier network composed of M tiers of wireless networks, with each tier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Prasanna Madhusudhanan , Juan G. Restrepo , Youjian , Liu , Timothy X Brown , Kenneth R. Baker

Since the first cellular networks were trialled in the 1970s, we have witnessed an incredible wireless revolution. From 1G to 4G, the massive traffic growth has been managed by a combination of wider bandwidths, refined radio interfaces,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Giovanni Interdonato , Emil Björnson , Hien Quoc Ngo , Pål Frenger , Erik G. Larsson

For two-tier networks consisting of macrocells and femtocells, the channel access mechanism can be configured to be open access, closed access, or hybrid access. Hybrid access arises as a compromise between open and closed access…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yi Zhong , Wenyi Zhang

In this work, we study how to design uplink transmission with massive machine type devices in tactile internet, where ultra-short delay and ultra-high reliability are required. To characterize the transmission reliability constraint, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Changyang She , Chenyang Yang , Tony Q. S. Quek

In this paper, we provide a theoretical framework for the study of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-enabled full-duplex (FD) cellular networks in which the self-interference (SI) channels follow the Rician distribution and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Arman Shojaeifard , Kai-Kit Wong , Marco Di Renzo , Gan Zheng , Khairi Ashour Hamdi , Jie Tang

Cell-free massive MIMO is a variant of multiuser MIMO and massive MIMO, in which the total number of antennas $LM$ is distributed among the $L$ remote radio units (RUs) in the system, enabling macrodiversity and joint processing. Due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Fabian Göttsch , Noboru Osawa , Takeo Ohseki , Kosuke Yamazaki , Giuseppe Caire

Ever increasing number of cellular users and their high data requirements, necessitates need for improvement in the present heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNet). Carrier sensing prevents base stations within a certain range of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Pragya Swami , Vimal Bhatia , Satyanarayana Vuppala , Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

Non-cooperative cellular massive MIMO, combined with power control, is known to lead to significant improvements in per-user throughput compared with conventional LTE technology. In this paper, we investigate further refinements to massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Shahram Shahsavari , Mehrdad Nosrati , Parisa Hassanzadeh , Alexei Ashikhmin , Thomas L. Marzetta , Elza Erkip

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) deployments are usually investigated with half-duplex nodes and high-capacity fronthaul links. To leverage the possible gains in throughput and energy efficiency (EE) of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-13 Soumyadeep Datta , Dheeraj Naidu Amudala , Ekant Sharma , Rohit Budhiraja , Shivendra S. Panwar