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Advances in cellular networks such as device-to-device communications and full-duplex radios, as well as the inherent elimination of intra-cell interference achieved by network-controlled multiple access schemes, motivates the investigation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Stelios Stefanatos , Antonis G. Gotsis , Angeliki Alexiou

We study the problem of cache-aided communication for cellular networks with multi-user and multiple antennas at finite signal-to-noise ratio. Users are assumed to have non-symmetric links, modeled by wideband fading channels. We show that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Itsik Bergel , Soheil Mohajer

This paper studies a two-tier CDMA system in which the microcell base is converted into a data access point (DAP), i.e., a limited-range base station that provides high-speed access to one user at a time. The microcell (or DAP) user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Shalinee Kishore , Stuart C. Schwartz , Larry J. Greenstein , H. Vincent Poor

With the rapidly increasing number of deployed LTE femtocell base stations (FBS), energy consumption of femtocell networks has become a serious environmental issue. Therefore, energy-efficient protocols are needed to balance the trade-off…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-08-07 Ying Wang , Xiangming Dai , Jason Min Wang , Brahim Bensaou

The millimeter wave spectra at 71-76GHz (70GHz) and 81-86GHz (80GHz) have the potential to endow fifth-generation new radio (5G-NR) with mobile connectivity at gigabit rates. However, a pressing issue is the presence of incumbent systems in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-27 Ghaith Hattab , Eugene Visotsky , Mark Cudak , Amitava Ghosh

Caching at the edge is a promising technique to cope with the increasing data demand in wireless networks. This paper analyzes the performance of cellular networks consisting of a tier macro-cell wireless backhaul nodes overlaid with a tier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Italo Atzeni , Marco Maso , Imène Ghamnia , Ejder Baştuğ , Mérouane Debbah

This paper considers a multi-cell multiple antenna system with precoding used at the base stations for downlink transmission. For precoding at the base stations, channel state information (CSI) is essential at the base stations. A popular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-01 Jubin Jose , Alexei Ashikhmin , Thomas L. Marzetta , Sriram Vishwanath

Sustainability is paramount in modern cellular networks, which face significant energy consumption challenges from rising mobile traffic and advancements in wireless technology. Cell-switching, well-established in literature as an effective…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Metin Ozturk , Maryam Salamatmoghadasi , Halim Yanikomeroglu

The problem of joint downlink cell association (CA) and wireless backhaul bandwidth allocation (WBBA) in two-tier cellular heterogeneous networks (HetNets) is considered. Large-scale antenna array is implemented at the macro base station…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ning Wang , Ekram Hossain , Vijay K. Bhargava

In this paper we investigate the practical design for the multiple-antenna cognitive radio (CR) networks sharing the geographically used or unused spectrum. We consider a single cell network formed by the primary users (PU), which are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Pin-Hsun Lin , Gabriel P. Villardi , Zhou Lan , Hiroshi Harada

In this paper, we firstly exploit the inter-user interference (IUI) and inter-cell interference (ICI) as useful references to develop a robust transceiver design based on interference alignment for a downlink multi-user multi-cell…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Xianzhong Xie , Helin Yang , Athanasios V. Vasilakos

In this work, the problem of cross-tier interference in a two-tiered (macro-cell and cognitive small-cells) network, under the complete spectrum sharing paradigm, is studied. A new orthogonal precoder transmit scheme for the small base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Marco Maso , Leonardo S. Cardoso , Merouane Debbah , Lorenzo Vangelista

In a Poisson Point Process (PPP) network model, in which the locations of Base Stations (BSs) are randomly distributed according to a Spatial Poisson Process, has been recently used as a tractable stochastic model to analyse the performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Sinh Cong Lam , Kumbesan Sandrasegaran

Wise arrangement of antennas is critical in wireless cellular systems for both reduction of co-channel interference (CCI) and increase the quality of service (QoS). In this paper, a novel architecture for antenna arrangement in CDMA…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-08-23 Hamed Saghaei

Massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) has evolved along two tracks: cellular and cell-free, each with unique advantages and limitations. The cellular approach suffers from worse user spectral efficiency at cell edges, whereas the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

The benefit of multi-antenna receivers is investigated in wireless ad hoc networks, and the main finding is that network throughput can be made to scale linearly with the number of receive antennas nR even if each transmitting node uses…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nihar Jindal , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Steven Weber

Cell-free (CF) architecture and full-duplex (FD) communication are leading candidates for next-generation wireless networks. The CF framework removes cell boundaries in traditional cell-based systems, thereby mitigating inter-cell…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Diluka Galappaththige , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou , Chintha Tellambura

Simultaneous reuse of spectral resources by uplink and downlink, denoted as in-band full duplex (FD) communication, is promoted to double the spectral efficiency when compared to its half-duplex (HD) counterpart. Interference management,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Itsikiantsoa Randrianantenaina , Hesham Elsawy , Hayssam Dahrouj , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

An important concept in the fifth generation of mobile networks is multitenancy, which allows diverse operators sharing the same wireless infrastructure. To support this feature in conjunction with the challenging performance requirements…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Pablo Muñoz , Oriol Sallent , Jordi Pérez-Romero

With Full Duplex (FD), wireless terminal is capable of transmitting and receiving data simultaneously in the same frequency resources, however, it introduces self interference and co-channel interference. Even though various signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Askar Mandali Kundu , Rudrashish Pal , Mayank Kumar , Sreejith T