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This paper investigates the downlink channels in multi-cell multi-user interfering networks. The goal is to propose close-form designs to obtain degrees of freedom (DoF) in high SNR region for the network composed of base stations (BS) as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-20 Haichuan Zhou , Tharm Ratnarajah

Distributed machine learning (ML) over wireless networks hinges on accurate channel state information (CSI) and efficient exchange of high-dimensional model updates. These demands are governed by channel coherence time and bandwidth, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mehdi Karbalayghareh , David J. Love , Christopher G. Brinton

In this paper, a comprehensive study of the the downlink performance in a heterogeneous cellular network (or hetnet) is conducted. A general hetnet model is considered consisting of an arbitrary number of open-access and closed-access tier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Prasanna Madhusudhanan , Juan G. Restrepo , Youjian , Liu , Timothy X Brown

Heterogeneous cellular networks (HCN) with embedded small cells are considered, where multiple mobile users wish to download network content of different popularity. By caching data into the small-cell base stations (SBS), we will design…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-30 Jun Li , Youjia Chen , Zihuai Lin , Wen Chen , Branka Vucetic , Lajos Hanzo

We address the problem of analyzing and classifying in groups the downlink channel environment in a millimeter-wavelength cell, accounting for path loss, multipath fading, and User Equipment (UE) blocking, by employing a hybrid propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Thomas Ketseoglou , Matthew. C. Valenti , Ender Ayanoglu

We study a coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission where two base stations (BSs), each supported by a pinching antenna system (PASS), are deployed to jointly serve communication users under spatial division multiple access (SDMA)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Ali Amhaz , Shreya Khisa , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafeddine

Cellular uplink analysis has typically been undertaken by either a simple approach that lumps all interference into a single deterministic or random parameter in a Wyner-type model, or via complex system level simulations that often do not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Thomas D. Novlan , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Jeffrey G. Andrews

In this paper we investigate the benefit of base station (BS) cooperation in the uplink of coordinated multi-point (CoMP) networks. Our figure of merit is the required BS density required to meet a chosen rate coverage. Our model assumes a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 S. Alireza Banani , Raviraj Adve

Multi-cell processing, also called Coordinated Multiple Point (CoMP), is a very promising distributed multi-antennas technique that uses neighbour cell's antennas. This is expected to be part of next generation cellular networks standards…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-10-14 Virgile Garcia , Jean-Marie Gorce , Nikolai Lebedev

To meet the ever-growing demand for a higher communicating rate and better communication quality, more and more small cells are overlaid under the macro base station (MBS) tier, thus forming the heterogeneous networks. Small cells can ease…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Tao Han , Yujie Han , Xiaohu Ge , Qiang Li , Jing Zhang , Zhiquan Bai , Lijun Wang

It is known that data rates in standard cellular networks are limited due to inter-cell interference. An effective solution of this problem is to use the multi-cell cooperation idea. In Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN), which is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Fehmi Emre Kadan , Ali Özgür Yılmaz

Cell-free (CF) massive MIMO offers uniform service via distributed access points (APs), which impose high deployment costs. A novel design called hierarchical cell-free (HCF) addresses this problem by replacing some APs with a central base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Wei Jiang , Hans D Schotten

Providing connectivity to aerial users, such as cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or flying taxis, is a key challenge for tomorrow's cellular systems. In this paper, the use of coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-28 Ramy Amer , Walid Saad , Hesham ElSawy , Majid Butt , Nicola Marchetti

This work addresses the problem associated with coordinating scheduling decisions among multiple base stations in an LTE-Advanced downlink network in order to manage inter-cell interference with a centralized controller. To solve the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Oscar D. Ramos-Cantor , Jakob Belschner , Ganapati Hegde , Marius Pesavento

This paper studies joint beamforming and power control in a coordinated multicell downlink system that serves multiple users per cell to maximize the minimum weighted signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio. The optimal solution and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yichao Huang , Chee Wei Tan , Bhaskar D. Rao

We analyze the uplink of coordinated multi-point (CoMP) networks in which cooperation can be amongst 2 or 3 base stations (BSs). We consider a 2D network of BSs on a regular hexagonal lattice wherein the cooperation tessellates the 2D plane…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-20 S. Alireza Banani , Raviraj S. Adve

In this work new achievable rates are derived, for the uplink channel of a cellular network with joint multicell processing, where unlike previous results, the ideal backhaul network has finite capacity per-cell. Namely, the cell sites are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-06-02 Amichai Sanderovich , Oren Somekh , H. Vincent Poor , Shlomo Shamai

In cellular heterogeneous networks (HetNets), a number of distributed base stations cooperatively provide services to multiple mobile users. This paper addresses joint base-station activation and coordinated beamforming design for downlink…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-11 Siguo Bi , Zhaoxi Fang , Xiaojun Yuan , Xin Wang

We consider the coordinated downlink beamforming problem in a cellular network with the base stations (BSs) equipped with multiple antennas, and with each user equipped with a single antenna. The BSs cooperate in sharing their local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-29 Mingyi Hong , Alfredo Garcia , J. Joaquin Escudero Garzas , Ana Garcia-Armada

We consider the downlink of a cellular network with multiple cells and multi-antenna base stations, including a realistic distance-dependent pathloss model, clusters of cooperating cells, and general "fairness" requirements. Beyond Monte…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hoon Huh , Giuseppe Caire , Sung-Hyun Moon , Young-Tae Kim , Inkyu Lee