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This paper investigates the problem of resource allocation for multiuser communication networks with a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted wireless transmitter. In this network, the sum transmit power of the network is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Zhaohui Yang , Wei Xu , Chongwen Huang , Jianfeng Shi , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

The combination of cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is envisioned as a promising paradigm to improve network capacity and enhance coverage capability. However, to reap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Xinying Ma , Deyou Zhang , Ming Xiao , Chongwen Huang , Zhi Chen

This paper proposes energy-efficient coordinated beamforming strategies for multi-cell multi-user multiple-input single-output system. We consider a practical power consumption model, where part of the consumed power depends on the base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Oskari Tervo , Antti Tölli , Markku Juntti , Le-Nam Tran

The sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks will rely on ultra-dense multi-cell deployment to meet the high rate and connectivity demands. However, frequency reuse leads to severe inter-cell interference, particularly for cell-edge users,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shuo Zheng , Shuowen Zhang

Base station cooperation improves the sum-rates that can be achieved in cellular systems. Conventional cooperation techniques require sharing large amounts of information over finite-capacity backhaul links and assume that base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-12-08 Ramya Bhagavatula , Robert W. Heath

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

In this paper, we propose a series of novel coordination schemes for multi-cell downlink communication. Starting from full base station (BS) coordination, we first propose a fully-coordinated scheme to exploit beneficial effects of both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-15 Zhongxiang Wei , Christos Masouros , Kai-Kit Wong , Xin Kang

This paper considers the cooperation between a cognitive system and a primary system where multiple cognitive base stations (CBSs) relay the primary user's (PU) signals in exchange for more opportunity to transmit their own signals. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Gan Zheng , S. H. Song , Kai-Kit Wong , Bjorn Ottersten

This paper studies the coordinated beamforming (CoBF) design in the multiple-input single-output interference channel, assuming only channel distribution information given a priori at the transmitters. The CoBF design is formulated as an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Wei-Chiang Li , Tsung-Hui Chang , Chong-Yung Chi

This paper considers a multicell downlink channel in which multiple base stations (BSs) cooperatively serve users by jointly precoding shared data transported from a central processor over limited-capacity backhaul links. We jointly design…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Kien-Giang Nguyen , Quang-Doanh Vu , Markku Juntti , Le-Nam Tran

We address the problem of downlink beamforming for mitigating the co-channel interference in multi-cell OFDMA networks. Based on the network utility maximization framework, we formulate the problem as a non-convex optimization problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Weiqiang Xu , Xiaodong Wang

This paper introduces novel transmit beamforming approaches for the cognitive radio (CR) Z-channel. The proposed transmission schemes exploit non-causal information about the interference at the SBS to re-design the CR beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Ka Lung Law , Christos Masouros , Marius Pesavento

This paper considers maximizing the network-wide minimum supported rate in the downlink of a two-cell system, where each base station (BS) is endowed with multiple antennas. This is done for different levels of cell cooperation. At one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-14 Randa Zakhour , Stephen V. Hanly

A cellular multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink system is studied in which each base station (BS) transmits to some of the users, so that each user receives its intended signal from a subset of the BSs. This scenario is referred…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-12 Saeed Kaviani , Osvaldo Simeone , Witold A Krzymień , Shlomo Shamai

The amalgamation of cell-free networks and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has become a prospective technique for future sixth-generation wireless communication systems. In this paper, we focus on the precoding and beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Peng Zhang , Jiayi Zhang , Huahua Xiao , Xiaodan Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

Deploying reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to enhance wireless transmission is a promising approach. In this paper, we investigate large-scale multi-RIS-assisted multi-cell systems, where multiple RISs are deployed in each cell.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Zhanwei Yu , Di Yuan

The impacts of channel estimation errors, inter-cell interference, phase adjustment cost, and computation cost on an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted system are severe in practice but have been ignored for simplicity in most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Yuhang Jia , Ying Cui , Wuyang Jiang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) is a promising technology for further improving spectral efficiency (SE) with low cost and power consumption. However, conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yizhuo Li , Jiakang Zheng , Bokai Xu , Yiyang Zhu , Jiayi Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Bo Ai

Multi-cell wireless systems usually suffer both intra-cell and inter-cell interference, which can be mitigated via coordinated multipoint (CoMP) techniques. Previous works on multi-cell analysis for the microwave band generally consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Shu Sun , Theodore S. Rappaport , Mansoor Shafi

It is known that data rates in standard cellular networks are limited due to inter-cell interference. An effective solution of this problem is to use the multi-cell cooperation idea. In Cloud Radio Access Network, which is a candidate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Fehmi Emre Kadan , Ali Özgür Yılmaz