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Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Ahmad AlAmmouri , Jeffrey G. Andrews , François Baccelli

Future communication systems employing massive multiple input multiple output will not have the ability to use channel state information at the mobile user terminals. Instead, it will be necessary for such devices to evaluate the downlink…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-24 Tim Brown , David Humphreys , Martin Hudlicka , Tian Hong Loh

We propose a novel analytical framework for evaluating the coverage performance of a millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular network where idle user equipments (UEs) act as relays. In this network, the base station (BS) adopts either the direct…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Simin Xu , Nan Yang , Biao He , Hamid Jafarkhani

Base stations with a large number of transmit antennas have the potential to serve a large number of users at high rates. However, the receiver processing in the uplink relies on channel estimates which are known to suffer from pilot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Narayanan Krishnan , Roy D. Yates , Narayan B. Mandayam

Existing cellular network analyses, and even simulations, typically use the standard path loss model where received power decays like $\|x\|^{-\alpha}$ over a distance $\|x\|$. This standard path loss model is quite idealized, and in most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Xinchen Zhang , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Meta distribution is a fine-grained unified performance metric that enables us to evaluate the {reliability and latency} of next generation wireless networks, in addition to the conventional coverage probability. In this paper, using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Hazem Ibrahim , Hina Tabassum , Uyen T. Nguyen

In this paper, we consider a novel cellular network for aerial users, which is composed of dedicated base stations (BSs), whose antennas are directed towards aerial users, and traditional terrestrial BSs (TBSs). Besides, the dedicated BSs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-07 Yujie Qin , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In contemporary wireless communication networks, base-stations are organized into coordinated clusters (called cells) to jointly serve the users. However, such fixed systems are plagued by the so-called cell-edge problem: near the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Péter L. Erdős , Tamás Róbert Mezei

Various system tasks like interference coordination, handover decisions, admission control etc. in upcoming cellular networks require precise mid-term (spanning over a few seconds) performance models. Due to channel-dependent scheduling at…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Donald Parruca , Marius Grysla , Simon Görtzen , James Gross

Multi-cell cooperation is a promising approach for mitigating inter-cell interference in dense cellular networks. Quantifying the performance of multi-cell cooperation is challenging as it integrates physical-layer techniques and network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-23 Kaibin Huang , Jeffrey G. Andrews

In this paper we study the topological properties of wireless communication maps and their usability in algorithmic design. We consider the SINR model, which compares the received power of a signal at a receiver against the sum of strengths…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-03-25 Erez Kantor , Zvi Lotker , Merav Parter , David Peleg

In the next generations of cellular communication networks, higher density of base stations and higher frequency bands will be adopted. If being reflected by targets, the communication signal also brings information of the targets, in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-18 Husheng Li

We give efficient algorithms for the fundamental problems of Broadcast and Local Broadcast in dynamic wireless networks. We propose a general model of communication which captures and includes both fading models (like SINR) and graph-based…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Magnus M. Halldorsson , Tigran Tonoyan , Yuexuan Wang , Dongxiao Yu

We characterize a multi tier network with classical macro cells, and multi radio access technology (RAT) small cells, which are able to operate in microwave and millimeter-wave (mm-wave) bands. The small cells are assumed to be deployed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Gourab Ghatak , Antonio De Domenico , Marceau Coupechoux

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) are expected to significantly enhance the spectrum efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE) of future cellular systems. Since the performance gain of massive MIMO is fundamentally limited by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Yuwei Ren , Yingzhe Li , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Yingmin Wang

We provide a comprehensive overview of mathematical models and analytical techniques for millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular systems. The two fundamental physical differences from conventional Sub-6GHz cellular systems are (i) vulnerability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jeffrey G. Andrews , Tianyang Bai , Mandar Kulkarni , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Abhishek Gupta , Robert W. Heath

We consider the uplink of massive multipleinput multiple-output systems in a multicell environment. Since the base station (BS) estimates the channel state information (CSI) using the pilot signals transmitted from the users, each BS will…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Van-Dinh Nguyen , Oh-Soon Shin

In cellular network models, the base stations are usually assumed to form a lattice or a Poisson point process (PPP). In reality, however, they are deployed neither fully regularly nor completely randomly. Accordingly, in this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Anjin Guo , Martin Haenggi

Real-time distributed control is a promising application of 5G in which communication links should satisfy certain reliability guarantees. In this letter, we derive closed-form maximum average rate when a device (e.g. industrial machine)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Jihong Park , Petar Popovski

As traditional cellular base stations (BSs) are optimized for 2D ground service, providing 3D connectivity to uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) requires re-engineering of the existing infrastructure. In this paper, we propose a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Mohamed Benzaghta , Giovanni Geraci , David Lopez-Perez , Alvaro Valcarce