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Future dense small-cell networks are one key 5G candidates to offer outdoor high access data rates, especially in millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency bands. At those frequencies, the free space propagation loss and shadowing (from buildings,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Yoann Corre , Romain Charbonnier , Mohammed Zahid Aslam , Yves Lostanlen

Network densification is a promising cellular deployment technique that leverages spatial reuse to enhance coverage and throughput. Recent work has identified that at some point ultra-densification will no longer be able to deliver…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Van Minh Nguyen , Marios Kountouris

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

It is anticipated that much higher network capacity will be achieved by the fifth generation (5G) small cell networks incorporated with the millimeter wave (mmWave) technology. However, mmWave signals are more sensitive to blockages than…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Jiaqi Chen , Xiaohu Ge , Qiang Ni

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) has emerged as an alternative deployment for conventional cellular massive MIMO networks. Prior works relied on the strong assumption (quite idealized) that the APs are uniformly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Marco Di Renzo , Symeon Chatzinotas , John M. Senior

This paper studies the impact of artificial noise (AN) on the secrecy performance of a target cell in multi-cell cellular networks. Although AN turns out to be an efficient approach for securing a pointto-point/single cell confidential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Hui-Ming Wang , Chao Wang , Tong-Xing Zheng , Tony Q. S. Quek

This tutorial is intended as an accessible but rigorous first reference for someone interested in learning how to model and analyze cellular network performance using stochastic geometry. In particular, we focus on computing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Jeffrey G. Andrews , Abhishek K. Gupta , Harpreet S. Dhillon

Coordinated multipoint (CoMP) communications are considered for the fifth-generation (5G) small-cell networks as a tool to improve the high data rates and the cell-edge throughput. The average achievable rates of the small-cell base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Fen Bin , Jiaqi Chen , Xiaohu Ge , Wei Xiang

In this paper, energy efficiency of relay-assisted millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular networks with Poisson Point Process (PPP) distributed base stations (BSs) and relay stations (RSs) is analyzed using tools from stochastic geometry. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-21 Esma Turgut , M. Cenk Gursoy

Area spectral efficiency (ASE) was introduced as a metric to quantify the spectral utilization efficiency of cellular systems. Unlike other performance metrics, ASE takes into account the spatial property of cellular systems. In this paper,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Lei Zhang , Hong-Chuan Yang , Mazen O. Hasna

Spectral efficiency of low-density spreading non-orthogonal multiple access channels in the presence of fading is derived for linear detection with independent decoding as well as optimum decoding. The large system limit, where both the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Mai T. P. Le , Guido Carlo Ferrante , Tony Q. S. Quek , Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto

Accurate modeling of line-of-sight (LOS) probability is crucial for wireless channel description and coverage planning. The presence of a LOS impacts other channel characteristics such as pathloss, fading depth, delay- and angular spread,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-24 Bassel Abou Ali Modad , Xin Yu , Yao-Yi Chiang , Andreas F. Molisch

Cellular operators are continuously densifying their networks to cope with the ever-increasing capacity demand. Furthermore, an extreme densification phase for cellular networks is foreseen to fulfill the ambitious fifth generation (5G)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Rabe Arshad , Hesham ElSawy , Sameh Sorour , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This letter studies the performance of a single gateway LoRa system in the presence of different interference considering the imperfect orthogonality effect. It utilizes concepts of stochastic geometry to present a low-complexity…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Qahhar Muhammad Qadir

In this paper, we investigate physical-layer security for a heterogeneous cellular network consisting of a macro cell and a small cell in the presence of a passive eavesdropper that intends to tap both the macro-cell and small-cell…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Yulong Zou , Tong Wu , Ming Sun , Jia Zhu , Mujun Qian , Chen Liu

We study the scaling laws of the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) and area spectral efficiency (ASE) in multi-antenna cellular networks, where the number of antennas scales with the base station (BS) spatial density $\lambda$.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Ahmad AlAmmouri , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Francois Baccelli

We consider a small cell network (SCN) consisting of N cells, with the small cell base stations (SCBSs) equipped with Nt \geq 1 antennas each, serving K single antenna user terminals (UTs) per cell. Under this set up, we address the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Subhash Lakshminarayana , Mohamad Assaad , Merouane Debbah

Due to their low latency, high capacity, and seamless worldwide coverage, low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites are essential to the equal access network. Stochastic geometry (SG) is an appropriate method for such a large and irregular system.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Yanbo Cao , Derui Gao , Jingyu Xu

Advancements in high-frequency communication technologies using millimeter waves (mmWave), Tera- Hertz (THz), and optical wireless frequency bands are key for extending wireless connectivity beyond 5G. These technologies offer a broader…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Mohsen Abedi , Alexis A. Dowhuszko , Mehdi Sookhak , Risto Wichman

This paper presents key parameters including the line-of-sight (LOS) probability, large-scale path loss, and shadow fading models for the design of future fifth generation (5G) wireless communication systems in urban macro-cellular (UMa)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Shu Sun , Timothy A. Thomas , Theodore S. Rappaport , Huan Nguyen , Istvan Z. Kovacs , Ignacio Rodrigue