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We study the problem of interference management in large-scale small cell networks, where each user equipment (UE) needs to determine in a distributed manner when and at what power level it should transmit to its serving small cell base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Kartik Ahuja , Yuanzhang Xiao , Mihaela van der Schaar

In this manuscript we tackle the problem of semi-distributed user selection with distributed linear precoding for sum rate maximization in multiuser multicell systems. A set of adjacent base stations (BS) form a cluster in order to perform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Eduardo Castañeda , Adão Silva , Ramiro Samano-Robles , Atilio Gameiro

Small cell networks have recently been proposed as an important evolution path for the next-generation cellular networks. However, with more and more irregularly deployed base stations (BSs), it is becoming increasingly difficult to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-27 C. Li , J. Zhang , K. B. Letaief

Small cell networks are evolving as an economically viable solution to ameliorate the capacity and coverage of state-of-the-art wireless cellular systems. Nonetheless, the dense and unplanned deployment of the small cells (e.g., femtocells,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-31 Hina Tabassum , Zaher Dawy , Ekram Hossain , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Capable of significantly reducing cell size and enhancing spatial reuse, network densification is shown to be one of the most dominant approaches to expand network capacity. Due to the scarcity of available spectrum resources, nevertheless,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Junyu Liu , Min Sheng , Kan Wang , Jiandong Li

Virtual cell optimization clusters cells into neighborhoods and performs optimized resource allocation over each neighborhood. In prior works we proposed resource allocation schemes to mitigate the interference caused by transmissions in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 Michal Yemini , Elza Erkip , Andrea J. Goldsmith

Inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) and intra-cell diversity (ICD) play important roles in improving cellular downlink coverage. Modeling cellular base stations (BSs) as a homogeneous Poisson point process (PPP), this paper provides…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Xinchen Zhang , Martin Haenggi

Downlink spatial intercell interference cancellation (ICIC) is considered for mitigating other-cell interference using multiple transmit antennas. A principle question we explore is whether it is better to do ICIC or simply standard…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-22 Jun Zhang , Jeffrey G. Andrews

We study opportunistic scheduling and the sum capacity of cellular networks with a full-duplex multi-antenna base station and a large number of single-antenna half-duplex users. Simultaneous uplink and downlink over the same band results in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Can Karakus , Suhas Diggavi

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

In this paper, we investigate a multi-cell six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) network for enhancing downlink communication performance under inter-cell interference (ICI). Each base station (BS) is equipped with multiple 6DMA surfaces,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Qijun Jiang , Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang

The deployment of small cells, overlaid on existing cellular infrastructure, is seen as a key feature in next-generation cellular systems. In this paper, the problem of user association in the downlink of small cell networks (SCNs) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-11 Omid Semiari , Walid Saad , Stefan Valentin , Mehdi Bennis , Behrouz Maham

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

Coordinated precoding based on interference alignment is a promising technique for improving the throughputs in future wireless multicell networks. In small networks, all base stations can typically jointly coordinate their precoding. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Rasmus Brandt , Rami Mochaourab , Mats Bengtsson

In this paper, we optimize user scheduling, power allocation and beamforming in distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks implementing user-centric clustering. We study both the coherent and non-coherent transmission modes,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Hussein A. Ammar , Raviraj Adve , Shahram Shahbazpanahi , Gary Boudreau , Kothapalli Venkata Srinivas

In this paper, the feasibility of a new downlink transmission mode in massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems is investigated with two types of users, i.e., the users with only statistical channel state information (CSI) and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Shuang Qiu , Da Chen , Daiming Qu , Kai Luo , Tao Jiang

Dynamic Time-division duplex (TDD) can provide efficient and flexible splitting of the common wireless cellular resources between uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) users. In this paper, the UL/DL optimization problem is formulated as a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Mohammed S. ElBamby , Mehdi Bennis , Walid Saad , Matti Latva-aho

Simultaneous reuse of spectral resources by uplink and downlink, denoted as in-band full duplex (FD) communication, is promoted to double the spectral efficiency when compared to its half-duplex (HD) counterpart. Interference management,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Itsikiantsoa Randrianantenaina , Hesham Elsawy , Hayssam Dahrouj , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We consider the information-theoretic optimality of treating inter-cell interference as noise (multi-cell TIN) in downlink cellular networks. We focus on scenarios modeled by the Gaussian interfering broadcast channel (IBC), comprising $K$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Hamdi Joudeh , Xinping Yi , Bruno Clerckx , Giuseppe Caire

Recently, a structure of an optimal linear precoder for multi cell downlink systems has been described in [1, Eq (3.33)]. Other references (e.g., [2,3]) have used simplified versions of the precoder to obtain promising performance gains.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Axel Müller , Romain Couillet , Emil Björnson , Sebastian Wagner , Mérouane Debbah