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Distance-based attenuation is a critical aspect of wireless communications. As opposed to the ubiquitous power-law path loss model, this paper proposes a stretched exponential path loss model that is suitable for short-range communication.…

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

The rapid growth of radio access networks (RANs) is increasing energy consumption and challenging the sustainability of future systems. We consider a dense-urban vertical heterogeneous network (vHetNet) comprising a high-altitude platform…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Maryam Salamatmoghadasi , Amir Mehrabian , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Georges Kaddoum

This paper presents a tutorial on stochastic geometry (SG) based analysis for cellular networks. This tutorial is distinguished by its depth with respect to wireless communication details and its focus on cellular networks. The paper starts…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Hesham ElSawy , Ahmed Sultan-Salem , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Moe Z. Win

In this paper, we first introduce a generalized modeling and analysis framework to explore the fundamental interactions between user association, coverage probability and link rate in a millimeter wave (mmWave) heterogeneous cellular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Chun-Hung Liu

The increasing global push for carbon reduction highlights the importance of integrating renewable energy into the supply chain of cellular networks. However, due to the stochastic nature of renewable energy generation and the uneven load…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Yuxi Zhao , Vicente Casares-Giner , Vicent Pla , Luis Guijarro , Iztok Humar , Yi Zhong , Xiaohu Ge

The heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs) with device-to-device (D2D) communications have been a promising solution to cost-efficient delivery of high data rates. A key challenge in such D2D-enabled HCNs is how to design an effective…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Tianqing Zhou , Yongming Huang , Luxi Yang

In a heterogeneous wireless cellular network, each user may be covered by multiple access points such as macro/pico/relay/femto base stations (BS). An effective approach to maximize the sum utility (e.g., system throughput) in such a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Mingyi Hong , Zhi-Quan Luo

In cellular wireless networks, user association refers to the problem of assigning mobile users to base station cells -- a critical, but challenging, problem in many emerging small cell and heterogeneous networks. This paper considers a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Changkyu Kim , Russell Ford , Yanjia Qi , Sundeep Rangan

In this paper, we provide joint subcarrier assignment and power allocation schemes for quality-of-service (QoS)-constrained energy-efficiency (EE) optimization in the downlink of an orthogonal frequency division multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Jie Tang , Daniel K. C. So , Emad Alsusa , Khairi Ashour Hamdi , Arman Shojaeifard , Kai-Kit Wong

The interference management technique that treats interference as noise (TIN) is optimal when the interference is sufficiently low. Scheduling algorithms based on the TIN optimality condition have recently been proposed, e.g., for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Mudasar Bacha , Marco Di Renzo , Bruno Clerckx

In traditional cellular networks, users at the cell edge often suffer from poor quality of service (QoS) due to large distance-dependent path loss and severe inter-cell interference. While cell-free (CF) massive multi-input multi-out (MIMO)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

An almost ubiquitous assumption made in the stochastic-analytic study of the quality of service in cellular networks is Poisson distribution of base stations. It is usually justified by various irregularities in the real placement of base…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-01-21 Bartlomiej Blaszczyszyn , Mohamed Kadhem Karray , Holger Paul Keeler

We consider the downlink of a multi-cell system with multi-antenna base stations and single-antenna user terminals, arbitrary base station cooperation clusters, distance-dependent propagation pathloss, and general "fairness" requirements.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Hoon Huh , Antonia M. Tulino , Giuseppe Caire

Inter-cell interference (ICI) is one of the most critical factors affecting performance of cellular networks. In this paper, we investigate a joint link adaptation and user scheduling problem for multi-cell downlink employing HARQ…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-12 Su Min Kim , Bang Chul Jung , Dan Keun Sung

In this paper, the outage performance of a two-tier heterogeneous mmWave cellular networks employing joint spatial division and multiplexing (JSDM) is investigated. It is assumed that macro base stations (BSs) equipped with a large number…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-24 Jun Chen , Deli Qiao

We consider a heterogeneous cellular network wherein multiple small cell millimeter wave (mmW) base stations (BSs) coexist with legacy sub-6GHz macro BSs. In the mmW band, small cells use multiple narrow beams to ensure sufficient coverage…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Deepa Jagyasi , Marceau Coupechoux

Considering a heterogeneous network (HetNet) where both macro base station (BS) and small cell (SC) nodes are equipped with massive antennas, this paper studies the performance for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlinks when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Yongyu Dai , Xiaodai Dong , Hai Lin

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

In this paper, using the stochastic geometry, we develop a tractable uplink modeling framework for the outage probability of both the single and multi-tier millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular networks. Each tier's mmWave base stations (BSs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-31 Oluwakayode Onireti , Lei Zhang , Ali Imran , Muhammad Ali Imran

We consider the problem of coordinated multi- cell downlink beamforming in massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems consisting of N cells, Nt antennas per base station (BS) and K user terminals (UTs) per cell. Specifically, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Subhash Lakshminarayana , Mohamad Assaad , Merouane Debbah