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Offloading traffic through opportunistic communications has been recently proposed as a way to relieve the current overload of cellular networks. Opportunistic communication can occur when mobile device users are (temporarily) in each…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-15 Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Domenico Giustiniano , Albert Banchs , Andreea Picu

In this paper, we introduce a mathematical framework for analyzing and optimizing multi-operator cellular networks that are allowed to share spectrum licenses and infrastructure elements. The proposed approach exploits stochastic geometry…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Shanshan Wang , Konstantinos Samdanis , Xavier Costa Perez , Marco Di Renzo

This paper introduces a novel analytical framework for evaluating energy-efficient, QoS-aware network-sharing strategies in cellular networks. Leveraging stochastic geometry, our framework enables the systematic assessment of network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Laura Finarelli , Maoquan Ni , Michela Meo , Falko Dressler , Gianluca Rizzo

The emergence of novel interactive multimedia applications with high rate and low latency requirements has led to a drastic increase in the video data traffic over wireless cellular networks. Endowing the small base stations of a macro-cell…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Eirina Bourtsoulatze , Deniz Gündüz

This paper studies the information-theoretic secrecy performance in large-scale cellular networks based on a stochastic geometry framework. The locations of both base stations and mobile users are modeled as independent two-dimensional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-09 He Wang , Xiangyun Zhou , Mark C. Reed

Network densification and heterogenisation through the deployment of small cellular access points (picocells and femtocells) are seen as key mechanisms in handling the exponential increase in cellular data traffic. Modelling such networks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Pete Pratt , Carl P. Dettmann , Orestis Georgiou

Mobile users are envisioned to exploit direct communication opportunities between their portable devices, in order to enrich the set of services they can access through cellular or WiFi networks. Sharing contents of common interest or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-21 Pavlos Sermpezis , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos

Motivated by the need for ubiquitous and reliable communications in post-disaster emergency management systems (EMSs), we hereby present a novel and efficient stochastic geometry (SG) framework. This mathematical model is specifically…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Maurilio Matracia , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Caching of popular contents at cellular base stations, i.e., edge caching, in order to eliminate duplicate transmission through the backhaul can reduce the latency of data delivery in $5$G networks. However, since caching can only reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Tachporn Sanguanpuak , Sudarshan Guruacharya , Ekram Hossain , Dusit Niyato , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

Caching the popular multimedia content is a promising way to unleash the ultimate potential of wireless networks. In this paper, we contribute to proposing and analyzing the cache-based content delivery in a three-tier heterogeneous network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-13 Chenchen Yang , Yao Yao , Zhiyong Chen , Bin Xia

In this paper, we investigate high-altitude platform station (HAPS) wireless networks for simultaneous non-orthogonal unicast and multicast transmissions. Specifically, stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM)-based wave-domain beamforming is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Ngoc Phuc Le , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We consider the problem of simultaneous on-demand streaming of stored video to multiple users in a multi-cell wireless network where multiple unicast streaming sessions are run in parallel and share the same frequency band. Each streaming…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Dilip Bethanabhotla , Giuseppe Caire , Michael J. Neely

Cooperation in cellular networks is a promising scheme to improve system performance. Existing works consider that a user dynamically chooses the stations that cooperate for his/her service, but such assumption often has practical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Luis David Alvarez Corrales , Anastasios Giovanidis , Philippe Martins , Laurent Decreusefond

We study the flow-level performance of random wireless networks. The locations of base stations (BSs) follow a Poisson point process. The number and positions of active users are dynamic. We associate a queue to each BS. The performance and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-23 Richard Combes , Eitan Altman

To meet the increasing demand for wireless capacity, future networks are likely to consist of dense layouts of small cells. The number of users in each cell is thus reduced which results in diminished gains from opportunistic scheduling,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Qing Wang , Balaji Rengarajan , Joerg Widmer

Broadcast is a fundamental operation in networks, especially in wireless Mobile Ad Hoc NETworks (MANET). For example, some form of broadcasting is used by all on-demand MANET routing protocols, when there is uncertainty as to the location…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-01-31 Zygmunt J. Haas , Milen Nikolov

Recently, video broadcast/multicast over wireless networks has created a significant interest in the field of wireless communication. However, the wireless resources have limitations to broadcast/multicast many video sessions at the same…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury , Young-Il Kimb , Won Ryub , Yeong Min Jang

With rapid expansion of cellular networks and the proliferation of mobile devices, cellular traffic data exhibits complex temporal dynamics and spatial correlations, posing challenges to accurate traffic prediction. Previous methods often…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Ziyi Li , Hui Ma , Fei Xing , Chunjiong Zhang , Ming Yan

The explosive growth of content-on-the-move, such as video streaming to mobile devices, has propelled research on multimedia broadcast and multicast schemes. Multi-rate transmission strategies have been proposed as a means of delivering…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Andrea Tassi , Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou , Dejan Vukobratović

User scheduling and beamforming design are two crucial yet coupled topics for wireless communication systems. They are usually optimized separately with conventional optimization methods. In this paper, a novel cross-layer optimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Shiwen He , Zhenyu An , Jianyue Zhu , Min Zhang , Yongming Huang , Yaoxue Zhang