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We model and analyze heterogeneous cellular networks with multiple antenna BSs (multi-antenna HetNets) with K classes or tiers of base stations (BSs), which may differ in terms of transmit power, deployment density, number of transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-04 Abhishek K. Gupta , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Sriram Vishwanath , Jeffrey G. Andrews

How would a cellular network designed for maximal energy efficiency look like? To answer this fundamental question, tools from stochastic geometry are used in this paper to model future cellular networks and obtain a new lower bound on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti , Marios Kountouris

We develop a general downlink model for multi-antenna heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets), where base stations (BSs) across tiers may differ in terms of transmit power, target signal-to-interference-ratio (SIR), deployment density,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Harpreet S. Dhillon , Marios Kountouris , Jeffrey G. Andrews

With the successful demonstration of in-band full-duplex (IBFD) transceivers, a new research dimension has been added to wireless networks. This paper proposes an interesting use case of this capability for IBFD self-backhauling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Ankit Sharma , Radha Krishna Ganti , J. Klutto Milleth

In this paper we present a simple method to exploit the diversity of interference in heterogenous wireless communication systems with large number of machine-type-devices (MTD). We consider a system with a machine-type-aggregator (MTA) as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Samad Ali , Nandana Rajatheva

We derive a general and closed-form result for the success probability in downlink multiple-antenna (MIMO) heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets), utilizing a novel Toeplitz matrix representation. This main result, which is equivalently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Chang Li , Jun Zhang , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Khaled B. Letaief

Both the use of very large arrays of antennas and flexible time division duplexing (TDD) designs have become prominent features of next generation 5G cellular systems. However, both enabling technologies suffer from severe interference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-12 David M. Gutierrez-Estevez

In this paper, we study the problem of joint inband backhauling and interference mitigation in 5G heterogeneous networks (HetNets) in which a massive multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) macro cell base station equipped with a large number…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Trung Kien Vu , Mehdi Bennis , Sumudu Samarakoon , Merouane Debbah , Matti Latva-aho

Using tools from stochastic geometry, we develop a framework to model the downlink rate coverage probability of a user in a given small cell network (SCN) with massive MIMO-enabled wireless backhauls. The considered SCN is composed of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-23 Hina Tabassum , Ahmed Hamdi Sakr , Ekram Hossain

Deploying sub-6GHz network together with millimeter wave (mmWave) is a promising solution to simultaneously achieve sufficient coverage and high data rate. In the heterogeneous networks (HetNets), the traditional coupled access, i.e., the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-03 Minwei Shi , Kai Yang , Chengwen Xing , Rongfei Fan

Heterogeneous wireless networks (HetNets) provide a powerful approach to meet the dramatic mobile traffic growth, but also impose a significant challenge on backhaul. Caching and multicasting at macro and pico base stations (BSs) are two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Ying Cui , Dongdong Jiang

In this paper, we consider a novel cache-enabled heterogeneous network (HetNet), where macro base stations (BSs) with traditional sub-6 GHz are overlaid by dense millimeter wave (mmWave) pico BSs. These two-tier BSs, which are modeled as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Wenqiang Yi , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) has recently gained much attention for its potential in shaping the landscape of sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems. This paper proposes a hierarchical network architecture tailored for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

Massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) has evolved along two tracks: cellular and cell-free, each with unique advantages and limitations. The cellular approach suffers from worse user spectral efficiency at cell edges, whereas the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are cellular networks where the base stations (BSs) are equipped with unconventionally many antennas. Such large antenna arrays offer huge spatial degrees-of-freedom for transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-20 Emil Björnson , Michail Matthaiou , Mérouane Debbah

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

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

Considering a heterogeneous network (HetNet) system consisting of a macro tier overlaid with a second tier of small cells (SCs), this paper studies the mean square error (MSE) based precoding design to be employed by the macro base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Yongyu Dai , Xiaodai Dong , Wu-Sheng Lu

In this paper, the potential benefits of applying non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique in $K$-tier hybrid heterogeneous networks (HetNets) is explored. A promising new transmission framework is proposed, in which NOMA is adopted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Yuanwei Liu , Zhijin Qin , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Julie A. McCann

We propose a hierarchical interference mitigation scheme for massive MIMO cellular networks. The MIMO precoder at each base station (BS) is partitioned into an inner precoder and an outer precoder. The inner precoder controls the intra-cell…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 An Liu , Vincent Lau