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This paper studies joint uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) resource allocation in user-centric orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) cloud radio access network (CRAN), where the users select the distributed remote radio heads…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Zehong Lin , Yuan Liu

A novel rate splitting space division multiple access (SDMA) scheme based on grouped code index modulation (GrCIM) is proposed for the sixth generation (6G) downlink transmission. The proposed RSMA-GrCIM scheme transmits information to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Wenchao Zhai , Yishan Wu , Jun Zhao , Huimei Han

Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) has been recognized as a promising multiple access technique for future wireless communication systems. Recent research demonstrates that RSMA can maintain its superiority without relying on Successive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Sibo Zhang , Bruno Clerckx , David Vargas

Sparse signatures have been proposed for the CDMA uplink to reduce multi-user detection complexity, but they have not yet been fully exploited for its downlink counterpart. In this work, we propose a Multi-Carrier CDMA (MC-CDMA) downlink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Min Li , Chunshan Liu , Stephen V. Hanly

Uplink cellular networks are interference-dominated but interference channel state information (CSI) is rarely available at scale. The emerging fluid antenna system (FAS) concept, which provides additional spatial degrees of freedom through…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Chenguang Rao , Kai-Kit Wong , Xusheng Zhu , Hanjiang Hong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Ross Murch

To meet the surging demand for throughput, 5G cellular networks need to be more heterogeneous and much denser, by deploying more and more small cells. In particular, the number of users in each small cell can change dramatically due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-16 Yunquan Dong , Zhi Chen , Pingyi Fan , Khaled Ben Letaief

We consider downlink OFDMA in which users are imposed with different proportional-rate constraints, and a base station would like to maximise user rate over subcarrier assignment (SA) and power allocation (PA). To attain the objective, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Juthatip Wisanmongkol , Wiroonsak Santipach

In this paper, we consider maximizing the sum-rate in the uplink of a multi-cell OFDMA network. The problem has a non-convex combinatorial structure and is known to be NP hard. Due to the inherent complexity of implementing the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-09-22 Hina Tabassum , Zaher Dawy , Mohamed Slim Alouini

Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) has emerged as a powerful multiple access, interference management, and multi-user strategy for next generation communication systems. In this tutorial, we depart from the orthogonal multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Bruno Clerckx , Yijie Mao , Eduard A. Jorswieck , Jinhong Yuan , David J. Love , Elza Erkip , Dusit Niyato

While the legacy cyclic prefix orthogonal frequency division multiple access is retained as the preferred multiple access scheme for 5G enhanced mobile broadband the research is now focussed on the multiple access schemes for massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Kiran V. Shanbhag , Savitha H. M

The growing demand for low-latency computing in 6G is driving the use of UAV-based low-altitude mobile edge computing (MEC) systems. However, limited spectrum often leads to severe uplink interference among ground terminals (GTs). In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Xudong Wang , Hongyang Du , Lei Feng , Kaibin Huang

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as base stations (BSs) is envisaged as a key enabler for the fifth generation (5G) and beyond-5G networks. Specifically, aerial base stations (UAV-BS) are expected to provide ubiquitous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Wael Jaafar , Shimaa Naser , Sami Muhaidat , Paschalis C. Sofotasios , Halim Yanikomeroglu

The Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) is a transmission technique used in the uplink of Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G systems, as it is characterized by reduced transmitted signal envelope fluctuations in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Pawel Kryszkiewicz

Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) is a promising technique for enabling massive connectivity and high spectrum efficiency in future machine-type communication networks. However, its performance crucially depends on well-designed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Tuofeng Lei , Qu Luo , Shuyan Ni , Shimiao Chen , Xin Song , Pei Xiao

This paper considers joint uplink/downlink of an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA)-based heterogeneous network (HetNet) consisting of a single macro base station (MBS), multiple femto base stations (FBSs) and access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Sepehr Rezvani , Nader Mokari , Mohammad R. Javan

This paper considers coordinated linear precoding in downlink multicell multiuser orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) network. A less-complex, fast and provably convergent algorithm that maximizes the weighted sum-rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Mirza Golam Kibria , Hidekazu Murata , Susumu Yoshida

In this paper, the problem of maximizing the wireless users' sum-rate for uplink rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) communications is studied. In the considered model, each user transmits a superposition of two messages to a base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Walid Saad , Wei Xu , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Adaptive OFDMA has recently been recognized as a promising technique for providing high spectral efficiency in future broadband wireless systems. The research over the last decade on adaptive OFDMA systems has focused on adapting the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 William Weiliang Li , Ying Jun , Zhang , Anthony Man-Cho So , Moe Z. Win

Uplink synchronization in orthogonal frequency-division multiple-access (OFDMA) systems is a challenging task. In IEEE 802.16-based networks, users that intend to establish a communication link with the base station must go through a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-18 Michele Morelli , Luca Sanguinetti , H. Vincent Poor

The problem of uplink transmissions in massive connectivity is commonly dealt with using schemes for grant-free random access. When a large number of devices transmit almost synchronously, the receiver may not be able to resolve the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Ao Chen , Wei Chen , Bo Ai , Petar Popovski