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The crushing demand for wireless data services will soon exceed the capability of the current homogeneous cellular architecture. An emerging solution is to overlay small-cell networks with the macro-cell networks. In this paper, we propose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Yafei Tian , Songtao Lu , Chenyang Yang

OFDMA systems are considered as the promising multiple access scheme of next generation multi-cellular wireless systems. In order to ensure the optimum usage of radio resources, OFDMA radio resource management algorithms have to maximize…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-22 Pol Henarejos , Ana Perez-Neira , Velio Tralli , Marco Moretti , Nikos Dimitriou , Giulio Dainelli

The number of LTE users and their applications has increased significantly in the last decade, which increased the demand on the mobile network. LTE-Advanced comes with many features that can support this increasing demand. LTE-Advanced…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Najem N Sirhan , Manel Martinez-Ramon

We investigate the possible performance gains of power control in multi-layer cellular systems where microcells and picocells are distributed within macrocells. Although multilayers in cellular networks help increase system capacity and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-03-29 Kemal Davaslioglu , Ender Ayanoglu

Traditional ultra-dense wireless networks are recommended as a complement for cellular networks and are deployed in partial areas, such as hotspot and indoor scenarios. Based on the massive multiple-input multi-output (MIMO) antennas and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-12-11 Xiaohu Ge , Song Tu , Guoqiang Mao , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Tao Han

Fractional frequency reuse (FFR) is an inter-cell interference coordination scheme that is being actively researched for emerging wireless cellular networks. In this work, we consider hexagonal tessellation based planned FFR deployments,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Suman Kumar , Sheetal Kalyani , K. Giridhar

This paper considers a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system that consists of a large number of geographically distributed access points (APs) serving multiple users via coherent joint transmission. The downlink…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-15 Mahmoud Zaher , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Marina Petrova

Today, a large portion of the mobile data traffic is consumed behind the shielding walls of buildings or in the Faraday cage of trains. This renders cellular network coverage from outdoor cell sites difficult. Indoor small cells and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Adrian Schumacher , Ruben Merz , Andreas Burg

Two-tier femtocell networks-- comprising a conventional macrocellular network plus embedded femtocell hotspots-- offer an economically viable solution to achieving high cellular user capacity and improved coverage. With universal frequency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-02-06 Vikram Chandrasekhar , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Cell-Free (CF) Massive multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO) is a distributed antenna system, wherein a large number of back-haul linked access points randomly distributed over a coverage area serve simultaneously a smaller number of users.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Salah Eddine Hajri , Juwendo Denis , Mohamad Assaad

Millimeter wave (mmW) bands between 30 and 300 GHz have attracted considerable attention for next-generation cellular networks due to vast quantities of available spectrum and the possibility of very high-dimensional antenna ar-rays.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Russell Ford , Felipe Gomez-Cuba , Marco Mezzavilla , Sundeep Rangan

High-density Wi-Fi deployments often result in significant co-channel interference, which degrades overall network performance. To address this issue, coordination of multi access points (APs) has been considered to enable coordinated…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jiaming Yu , Le Liang , Hao Ye , Shi Jin

In-band full duplex cell-free (CF) systems suffer from severe self-interference and cross-link interference, especially when CF systems are operated in distributed way. To this end, we propose the multicarrier-division duplex as an enabler…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-16 Bohan Li , Lie-Liang Yang , Robert G Maunder , Songlin Sun , Pei Xiao

With the explosive growth of mobile data demand, there has been an increasing interest in deploying small cells of higher frequency bands underlying the conventional homogeneous macrocell network, which is usually referred to as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yong Niu , Chuhan Gao , Yong Li , Li Su , Depeng Jin , Athanasios V. Vasilakos

This paper introduces a novel approach to radio resource allocation in multi-cell wireless networks using a fully scalable multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) framework. A distributed method is developed where agents control…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yiming Zhang , Dongning Guo

In this paper, we analyze the impact of relays on the uplink performance of FDMA cellular networks. We focus our analysis on Decode and Forward techniques, with the aim of measuring the improvements which can be achieved in terms of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-06-26 Federico Librino , Michele Zorzi

We study, in this paper, the impact of imperfect small cell positioning with respect to traffic hotspots in cellular networks. In order to derive the throughput distribution in macro and small cells, we firstly perform static level analysis…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-04 Aymen Jaziri , Ridha Nasri , Tijani Chahed

Cell-free Massive MIMO systems consist of a large number of geographically distributed access points (APs) that serve users by coherent joint transmission. Downlink power allocation is important in these systems, to determine which APs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Sucharita Chakraborty , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

The widespread application of wireless services and dense devices access have triggered huge energy consumption. Because of the environmental and financial considerations, energy-efficient design in wireless networks becomes an inevitable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Haijun Zhang , Hao Liu , Julian Cheng , Victor C. M. Leung

We consider a dynamic millimeter-wave network with integrated access and backhaul, where mobile relay nodes move to auto-reconfigure the wireless backhaul. Specifically, we focus on in-band relaying networks, which conduct access and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Mohamed Sana , Benoit Miscopein