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Unmanned aerial vehicle-aided communication (UAB-BS) is a promising solution to establish rapid wireless connectivity in sudden/temporary crowded events because of its more flexibility and mobility features than conventional ground base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Chuan-Chi Lai , Bhola , Ang-Hsun Tsai , Li-Chun Wang

We consider the problem of maximizing the alpha-fairness utility over the downlink of a heterogeneous wireless network (HetNet) by jointly optimizing the association of users to transmission points (TPs) and the activation fractions of all…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Vaibhav Singh , Narayan Prasad , Mustafa Y. Arslan , Sampath Rangarajan

Large number of antennas and radio frequency (RF) chains at the base stations (BSs) lead to high energy consumption in massive MIMO systems. Thus, how to improve the energy efficiency (EE) with a computationally efficient approach is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Mangqing Guo , M. Cenk Gursoy

In this paper, we focus on one of the representative 5G network scenarios, namely multi-tier heterogeneous cellular networks. User association is investigated in order to reduce the down-link co-channel interference. Firstly, in order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Tao Han , Guoqiang Mao , Qiang Li , Lijun Wang , Jing Zhang

Ensuring ultra-reliable and low latency communications (URLLC) is necessary for enabling delay critical applications in 5G HetNets. We propose a joint user to BS association and resource optimization method that is attractive for URLLC in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Mohammad Yousefvand , Narayan B. Mandayam

We consider a scalable user-centric wireless network with dynamic cluster formation as defined by Bj\"ornsson and Sanguinetti. After having shown the importance of dominant channel subspace information for uplink (UL) pilot decontamination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Fabian Göttsch , Noboru Osawa , Takeo Ohseki , Kosuke Yamazaki , Giuseppe Caire

In this paper, we consider a heterogeneous repository of drone-enabled aerial base stations with varying transmit powers that provide downlink wireless coverage for ground users. One particular challenge is optimal selection and deployment…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Nima Namvar , Fatemeh Afghah , Ismail Guvenc

In this paper, we consider device-to-device (D2D) communication underlaying uplink cellular networks with multiple base stations (BSs), where each user can switch between traditional cellular mode (through BS) and D2D mode (by connecting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Yuan Liu

This paper presents a novel distributed low-rank scheme and adaptive algorithms for distributed estimation over wireless networks. The proposed distributed scheme is based on a transformation that performs dimensionality reduction at each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Rodrigo C. de Lamare

Massive MIMO and small cell are both recognized as the key technologies for the future 5G wireless systems. In this paper, we investigate the problem of user association in a heterogeneous network (HetNet) with massive MIMO and small cells,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Yi Xu , Shiwen Mao

This paper investigates the downlink power allocation of the simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-assisted cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with multi-antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jun Qian , Ross Murch , Khaled B. Letaief

This paper investigates joint user pairing, power and time slot duration allocation in the uplink multiple-input single-output (MISO) multi-user cooperative rate-splitting multiple access (C-RSMA) networks in half-duplex (HD) mode. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 Shreya Khisa , Mohamad Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafeddine

A base-station (BS) equipped with multiple antennas can use its spatial dimensions in three different ways: (1) to serve multiple users, thereby achieving a multiplexing gain, (2) to provide spatial diversity in order to improve user rates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Kianoush Hosseini , Caiyi Zhu , Ahmad Khan , Raviraj S. Adve , Wei Yu

In this paper, we aim to maximize the energy efficiency of cellular wireless networks. Specifically, we address the power allocation problem in multi-cell multi-carrier systems. Considering realistic base station power consumption models,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Kemal Davaslioglu , Cemil Can Coskun , Ender Ayanoglu

We introduce DBS, a new technique for user selection in downlink multi-user communications with extra-large (XL) antenna arrays. DBS categorizes users according to their equivalent distance to the antenna array. Such categorization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 José P. González-Coma , F. Javier López-Martínez , Luis Castedo

This paper analyzes two-tier heterogeneous cellular network with decoupled downlink and uplink access. The basic performance benefits of uplink/downlink decoupling have been recently introduced. Here we provide a more elaborate treatment of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-05 Katerina Smiljkovikj , Liljana Gavrilovska , Petar Popovski

This paper proposes a novel distributed reduced--rank scheme and an adaptive algorithm for distributed estimation in wireless sensor networks. The proposed distributed scheme is based on a transformation that performs dimensionality…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-06 S. Xu , R. C. de Lamare , H. V. Poor

This paper compares centralized and distributed methods to solve the power minimization problem with quality-of-service (QoS) constraints in the downlink (DL) of multi-cell Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson , Tuan Anh Le

Commonly considered user association frameworks in millimeter-wave communications are based on the sum rate maximization, and they essentially neglect user specific rate and service requirements. Furthermore, new features of millimeter-wave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Veljko Boljanovic , Forough Yaghoubi , Danijela Cabric

One of the principal underlying assumptions of current approaches to the analysis of heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets) with random spatial models is the uniform distribution of users independent of the base station (BS) locations.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Chiranjib Saha , Mehrnaz Afshang , Harpreet S. Dhillon