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This paper investigates the design of channel estimation and 3D localization algorithms in a challenging scenario, where a sub-connected planar extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) communicates with multi-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Kangda Zhi , Tianyu Yang , Songyan Xue , Giuseppe Caire

The millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies offer the potential of orders of magnitude increases in capacity for next-generation cellular systems. However, links in mmWave networks are susceptible to blockage and may suffer from rapid…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Marco Giordani , Marco Mezzavilla , Sundeep Rangan , Michele Zorzi

We develop two distributed downlink resource allocation algorithms for user-centric, cell-free, spatially-distributed, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks. In such networks, each user is served by a subset of nearby transmitters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Hussein A. Ammar , Raviraj Adve , Shahram Shahbazpanahi , Gary Boudreau , Kothapalli Venkata Srinivas

A key feature of the packet scheduler in LTE system is that it can allocate resources both in the time and frequency domain. Furthermore, the scheduler is acquainted with channel state information periodically reported by user equipments…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-10-01 Mattia Carpin , Andrea Zanella , Jawad Rasool , Kashif Mahmood , Ole Grøndalen , Olav N. Østerbø

In a heterogeneous network consisting of macro base stations (MBSs) and small base stations (SBSs), the traditional cell association policy, i.e., coupled access (CA), is far from optimal, due to the significant difference between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Ran Li , Kai Luo , Tao Jiang , Shi Jin

Due to the dominance of the downlink traffic in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), a large number of previous research efforts have been put to enhance the transmission from the Access Point (AP) to stations (STAs). The downlink…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-11-21 Ruizhi Liao , Boris Bellalta , Trang Cao Minh , Jaume Barcelo , Miquel Oliver

Multiuser diversity (MUDiv) is one of the central concepts in multiuser (MU) systems. In particular, MUDiv allows for scheduling among users in order to eliminate the negative effects of unfavorable channel fading conditions of some users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Youngwook Ko , Sergiy~A. ~Vorobyov , Masoud Ardakani

Imagine a coverage area with many wireless access points that cooperate to jointly serve the users, instead of creating autonomous cells. Such a cell-free network operation can potentially resolve many of the interference issues that appear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

In this paper, we first propose interference alignment (IA) scheme for uplink transmission of multiple-input-mulitple-output (MIMO) cellular network with a help of relay which operates in halfduplex mode. The proposed scheme only requires…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Hoyoun Kim , Jong-Seon No

We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with multi-antenna access points and user equipments (UEs) over Weichselberger Rician fading channels with random phase-shifts. More specifically, we investigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Xin Li , Jiayi Zhang , Zhe Wang , Bo Ai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

We consider a joint scheduling-and-power-allocation problem of a downlink cellular system. The system consists of two groups of users: real-time (RT) and non-real-time (NRT) users. Given an average power constraint on the base station, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Ahmed Ewaisha , Cihan Tepedelenlioglu

This letter tackles a joint user scheduling, frequency resource allocation (USRA), multi-input-multi-output mode selection (MIMO MS) between single-user MIMO and multi-user (MU) MIMO, and MU-MIMO user selection problem, integrating uplink…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Hyeonho Noh , Harim Lee , Hyun Jong Yang

By means of the emerging technique of dynamic Time Division Duplex (TDD), the switching point between uplink and downlink transmissions can be optimized across a multi-cell system in order to reduce the impact of inter-cell interference. It…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-07 A. M. Fouladgar , O. Simeone , O. Sahin , P. Popovski , S. Shamai

In cell-free massive MIMO systems with multiple distributed access points (APs) serving multiple users over the same time-frequency resources, downlink beamforming is done through spatial precoding. Precoding vectors can be optimally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Mehdi Zafari , Divyanshu Pandey , Rahman Doost-Mohammady , César A. Uribe

Migrating computational intensive tasks from mobile devices to more resourceful cloud servers is a promising technique to increase the computational capacity of mobile devices while saving their battery energy. In this paper, we consider a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Stefania Sardellitti , Gesualdo Scutari , Sergio Barbarossa

This paper considers a mobile edge computing-enabled cell-free massive MIMO wireless network. An optimization problem for the joint allocation of uplink powers and remote computational resources is formulated, aimed at minimizing the total…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi

Cell-free Massive MIMO is considered as a promising technology for satisfying the increasing number of users and high rate expectations in beyond-5G networks. The key idea is to let many distributed access points (APs) communicate with all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

Radio Resource Management is a challenging topic in future 6G networks where novel applications create strong competition among the users for the available resources. In this work we consider the frequency scheduling problem in a multi-user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Anastasios Giovanidis , Mathieu Leconte , Sabrine Aroua , Tor Kvernvik , David Sandberg

User pairing in Non-Orthogonal Multiple-Access (NOMA) uplink based on channel state information is investigated considering some predefined power allocation schemes. The base station divides the set of users into disjunct pairs and assigns…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Mohammad A. Sedaghat , Ralf R. Müller

The present work focuses on the forward link of a broadband multibeam satellite system that aggressively reuses the user link frequency resources. Two fundamental practical challenges, namely the need to frame multiple users per…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Dimitrios Christopoulos , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten