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In a superimposed unicast and multicast transmission system, one layer of Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) is required at each receiver to remove the multicast stream before decoding the unicast stream. In this paper, we show that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Yijie Mao , Bruno Clerckx , Victor O. K. Li

We present a novel feedback protocol for wireless broadcast networks that utilize linear network coding. We consider transmission of packets from one source to many receivers over a single-hop broadcast erasure channel. Our method utilizes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Arman Rezaee , Linda Zeger , Muriel Médard

Consider a lossy communication channel for unicast with zero-delay feedback. For this communication scenario, a simple retransmission scheme is optimum with respect to delay. An alternative approach is to use random linear coding in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Mohammad Ravanbakhsh , Angela I. Barbero Diez , Oyvind Ytrehus

Multicast allows sending a message to multiple recipients without having to create and send a separate message for each recipient. This preserves network bandwidth, which is particularly important in time-sensitive networks. These networks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Heiko Geppert , Frank Dürr , Simon Naß , Kurt Rothermel

This paper considers the problem of network coding for multiple unicast connections in networks represented by directed acyclic graphs. The concept of interference alignment, traditionally used in interference networks, is extended to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-03 Abhik Das , Sriram Vishwanath , Syed Jafar , Athina Markopoulou

Rateless codes have been shown to provide robust error correction over a wide range of binary and noisy channels. Using a stochastic geometry model, this paper studies the performance of rateless codes in the cellular downlink and compares…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Amogh Rajanna , Martin Haenggi

In frequency division duplex (FDD) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication systems, the acquisition of downlink channel state information (CSI) is essential for maximizing spatial resource utilization and improving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Yiran Guo , Wei Chen , Bo Ai

This paper investigates the resource management problem in multi-carrier rate-splitting multiple access (MC-RSMA) systems with imperfect channel state information (CSI) and successive interference cancellation (SIC) for ultra-reliable and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Xiaoyu Ou , Shuping Dang , Zhihan Ren , Angela Doufexi

Flexible cooperation among base stations (BSs) is critical to improve resource utilization efficiency and meet personalized user demands. However, its practical implementation is hindered by the current radio access network (RAN), which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Jingbo Liu , Jiacheng Chen , Zeyu Sun , Bo Qian , Haibo Zhou

A cross-layer design along with an optimal resource allocation framework is formulated for wireless fading networks, where the nodes are allowed to perform network coding. The aim is to jointly optimize end-to-end transport layer rates,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-05-06 Ketan Rajawat , Nikolaos Gatsis , Georgios B. Giannakis

Multiuser switched-diversity scheduling schemes were recently proposed in order to overcome the heavy feedback requirements of conventional opportunistic scheduling schemes by applying a threshold-based, distributed, and ordered scheduling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mohammad Shaqfeh , Hussein Alnuweiri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Next-generation wireless networks need to handle massive user access effectively. This paper addresses the problem of joint group scheduling and multicast beamforming for downlink transmission with many active user groups. Aiming to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Chong Zhang , Min Dong , Ben Liang , Ali Afana , Yahia Ahmed

This paper considers a cellular system with a full-duplex base station and half-duplex users. The base station can activate one user in uplink or downlink (half-duplex mode), or two different users one in each direction simultaneously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Shahram Shahsavari , David Ramirez , Elza Erkip

Coded caching (CC) exploits cumulative cache memory at user devices and coding to transform unicast traffic into multicast transmissions. While information theoretic results show significant gains over uncoded caching for various network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kagan Akcay , MohammadJavad Salehi , Giuseppe Caire

We consider a downlink multicast and unicast superposition transmission in multi-layer Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) systems when only the statistical channel state information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yong Jin Daniel Kim , David Vargas

To combat the detrimental effects of the variability in wireless channels, we consider cross-layer rate adaptation based on limited feedback. In particular, based on limited feedback in the form of link-layer acknowledgements (ACK) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-21 C. Emre Koksal , Philip Schniter

This paper introduces a robust resource allocation framework for the downlink of cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (CF-mMIMO) networks to address the effects caused by imperfect channel state information (CSI). In particular, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-11 S. Mashdour , A. R. Flores , S. Salehi , R. C. de Lamare , Anke Schmeink

The problem of three-user multiple-access channel (MAC) with noiseless feedback is investigated. A new coding strategy is presented. The coding scheme builds upon the natural extension of the Cover-Leung (CL) scheme; and uses quasi-linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Mohsen Heidari , Farhad Shirani , S. Sandeep Pradhan

In this paper, we adopt a cross layer design approach for analyzing the throughput-delay tradeoff of the multicast channel in a single cell system. To illustrate the main ideas, we start with the single group case, i.e., pure multicast,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Praveen Kumar Gopala , Hesham El Gamal

Point-to-multipoint communications are expected to play a pivotal role in next-generation networks. This paper refers to a cellular system transmitting layered multicast services to a multicast group of users. Reliability of communications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Andrea Tassi , Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou , Daniel E. Lucani