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The concept of user-centric and personalized service in the fifth generation (5G) mobile networks encourages technical solutions such as dynamic asymmetric uplink/downlink resource allocation and elastic association of cells to users with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Qi Liao , Danish Aziz , Slawomir Stanczak

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

In order to improve the uplink performance of future cellular networks, the idea to decouple the downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) association has recently been shown to provide significant gain in terms of both coverage and rate performance.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Mudasar Bacha , Yueping Wu , Bruno Clerckx

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

Heterogeneous network is a novel network architecture proposed in Long-Term-Evolution~(LTE), which highly increases the capacity and coverage compared with the conventional networks. However, in order to provide the best services,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-26 Feng Wang , Wen Chen , Hongying Tang , Qingqing Wu

Due to increasing demands of seamless connection and massive information exchange across the world, the integrated satellite-terrestrial communication systems develop rapidly. To shed lights on the design of this system, we consider an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Lina Zhu , Lin Bai , Lin Zhou , Jinho Choi

Load balancing by proactively offloading users onto small and otherwise lightly-loaded cells is critical for tapping the potential of dense heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs). Offloading has mostly been studied for the downlink, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-25 Sarabjot Singh , Xinchen Zhang , Jeffrey G. Andrews

This paper proposes two nonlinear dynamics to solve constrained distributed optimization problem for resource allocation over a multi-agent network. In this setup, coupling constraint refers to resource-demand balance which is preserved at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-30 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Alireza Aghasi , Maria Vrakopoulou , Hamid R. Rabiee , Usman A. Khan , Themistoklis Charalambou

We study the problem of associating mobile terminals to base stations in a linear interference network, with the goal of maximizing the average rate achieved over both the uplink and downlink sessions. The cell association decision is made…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Aly El Gamal

Device-to-device(D2D) underlaying communication brings great benefits to the cellular networks from the improvement of coverage and spectral efficiency at the expense of complicated transceiver design. With frequency spectrum sharing mode,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-02 Jialiang Zhang , Gang Wu , Wenhui Xiong , Zhi Chen , Shaoqian Li

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

The densification and expansion of wireless network pose new challenges on interference management and reducing energy consumption. This paper studies energy-efficient resource management in heterogeneous networks by jointly optimizing cell…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-11 Quan Kuang , Wolfgang Utschick

Instead of achievable rate in the conventional association, we utilize the effective rate to design two association schemes for load balancing in heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs), which are both formulated as such problems with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Tianqing Zhou

In this paper, we propose a distributive queueaware intra-cell user scheduling and inter-cell interference (ICI) management control design for a delay-optimal celluar downlink system with M base stations (BSs), and K users in each cell.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-14 Huang Huang , Vincent K. N. Lau

In this paper, we propose a two-timescale delay-optimal base station Discontinuous Transmission (BS-DTX) control and user scheduling for downlink coordinated MIMO systems with energy harvesting capability. To reduce the complexity and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Ying Cui , Vincent K. N. Lau , Yueping Wu

In this work, we propose a distributed rate allocation algorithm that minimizes the average decoding delay for multimedia clients in inter-session network coding systems. We consider a scenario where the users are organized in a mesh…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Eirina Bourtsoulatze , Nikolaos Thomos , Pascal Frossard

In this paper, we consider a multiple-access fading channel where $N$ users transmit to a single base station (BS) within a limited number of time slots. We assume that each user has a fixed amount of energy available to be consumed over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Antonious M. Girgis , Amr El-Keyi , Mohammed Nafie

In this paper, the problem of cell association between small base stations (SBSs) and users in dense wireless networks is studied using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. The problem is formulated as a mean-field game in which the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Kenza Hamidouche , Ali Taleb Zadeh Kasgari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

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

We consider the allocation of spectral and power resources to the mobiles (i.e., user equipment (UE)) in a cell every subframe (1 ms) for the Long Term Evolution (LTE) orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) cellular network.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-01-17 Akash Baid , Ritesh Madan , Ashwin Sampath