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Load balancing between base stations (BSs) allows BS capacity to be efficiently utilised and avoid outages. Currently, data-driven mechanisms strive to balance inter-BS load and reduce unnecessary handovers. The challenge is that over a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Mengbang Zou , Yun Tang , Adolfo Perrusquía , Weisi Guo

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

This paper investigates the energy efficiency (EE) optimization in downlink multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). In our research, the statistical channel state information (CSI) is exploited to reduce the signaling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Li You , Yufei Huang , Di Zhang , Zheng Chang , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao

Consider a large-scale cellular network in which base stations (BSs) serve massive Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. Since IoT devices are powered by a capacity-limited battery, how to prolong their working lifetime is a paramount problem…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-11 Chun-Hung Liu , Yu-Han Shen , Chia-Han Lee

Interference between nodes directly limits the capacity of mobile ad hoc networks. This paper focuses on spatial interference cancelation with perfect channel state information (CSI), and analyzes the corresponding network capacity.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Kaibin Huang , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Robert W. Heath, , Dongning Guo , Randall A. Berry

This paper investigates the downlink of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems that include a single cell Base Station (BS) equipped with large number of antennas serving multiple users. As the number of RF chains is getting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Rami Hamdi , Wessam Ajib

With the dense deployment of small cell networks, low-cost backhaul schemes for small cell base stations (SBSs) have attracted great attentions. Self-backhaul using cellular communication technology is considered as a promising solution.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Lei Chen , F. Richard Yu , Hong Ji , Bo Rong , Victor C. M. Leung

In this paper, we investigate downlink power control in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks with distributed antenna arrays. The base station (BS) in each cell consists of multiple antenna arrays, which are deployed in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Noman Akbar , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson , Nan Yang

The joint user association and spectrum allocation problem is studied for multi-tier heterogeneous networks (HetNets) in both downlink and uplink in the interference-limited regime. Users are associated with base-stations (BSs) based on the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yicheng Lin , Wei Bao , Wei Yu , Ben Liang

Mitigating climate change and its impacts is one of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) required by United Nations for an urgent action. Increasing carbon emissions due to human activities is the root cause to climate change.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Chien-Sheng Yang , Carlson Lin , I-Kang Fu

The rapid growth of radio access networks (RANs) is increasing energy consumption and challenging the sustainability of future systems. We consider a dense-urban vertical heterogeneous network (vHetNet) comprising a high-altitude platform…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Maryam Salamatmoghadasi , Amir Mehrabian , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Georges Kaddoum

Utilization of inter-base station cooperation for information processing has shown great potential in enhancing the overall quality of communication services (QoS) in wireless communication networks. Nevertheless, such cooperations require…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Xingdi Chen , Yu Xiong , Kai Yang

This work considers the problem of user association to small-cell base stations (SBSs) in a heterogeneous and small-cell network (HetSNet). Two optimization problems are investigated, which are maximizing the set of associated users to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Zoubeir Mlika , Mathew Goonewardena , Wessam Ajib , Halima Elbiaze

Self-powered, energy harvesting small cell base stations (SBS) are expected to be an integral part of next-generation wireless networks. However, due to uncertainties in harvested energy, it is necessary to adopt energy efficient power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Akshay Kumar , Walid Saad

Next generation cellular networks will be heterogeneous with dense deployment of small cells in order to deliver high data rate per unit area. Traffic variations are more pronounced in a small cell, which in turn lead to more dynamic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Binnan Zhuang , Dongning Guo , Michael L. Honig

In this work, we consider the downlink of a single-cell multi-user MIMO system in which the base station (BS) makes use of $N$ antennas to communicate with $K$ single-antenna user equipments (UEs). The UEs move around in the cell according…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Luca Sanguinetti , Aris L. Moustakas , Emil Bjornson , Merouane Debbah

GSM networks are very expensive. The network design process requires too many decisions in a combinatorial explosion. For this reason, the larger is the network, the harder is to achieve a totally human based optimized solution. The BSC…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-09-08 Alexei Barbosa de Aguiar , Placido Rogerio Pinheiro , Alvaro de Menezes S. Neto , Ruddy P. P. Cunha , Rebecca F. Pinheiro

This paper is concerned with dynamic resource allocation in a cellular wireless network with slow fading for support of data traffic having heterogeneous transmission delay requirements. The multiple-input single-output (MISO) fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Rui Zhang

In the landscape of next-generation cellular networks, a projected surge of over 12 billion subscriptions foreshadows a considerable upswing in the network's overall energy consumption. The proliferation of User Equipment (UE) drives this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Argha Sen , Bhupendra Pal , Seemant Achari

The next generation (5G) cellular network faces the challenges of efficiency, flexibility, and sustainability to support data traffic in the mobile Internet era. To tackle these challenges, cloud-based cellular architectures have been…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Tao Zhao , Jian Wu , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu