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Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) serving as Aerial Base Stations (ABSs) are expected to extend 6G millimeter-Wave (mmWave) coverage and improve link reliability in urban areas. However, UAV-based Air-to-Ground (A2G) channels are highly…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Abdul Saboor , Evgenii Vinogradov

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Ahmad AlAmmouri , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Francois Baccelli

This work aims to design the uplink (UL) of a cellular network for maximal energy efficiency (EE). Each base station (BS) is randomly deployed within a given area and is equipped with $M$ antennas to serve $K$ user equipments (UEs). A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Andrea Pizzo , Daniel Verenzuela , Luca Sanguinetti , Emil Björnson

Caching popular contents at base stations (BSs) is a promising way to unleash the potential of cellular heterogeneous networks (HetNets), where backhaul has become a bottleneck. In this paper, we compare a cache-enabled HetNet where a tier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Dong Liu , Chenyang Yang

In an Ultra-dense network (UDN) where there are more base stations (BSs) than active users, it is possible that many BSs are instantaneously left idle. Thus, how to utilize these dormant BSs by means of cooperative transmission is an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Yanpeng Yang , Ki Won Sung , Jihong Park , Seong-Lyun Kim , Kwang Soon Kim

Despite coverage enhancement in rural areas is one of the main requirements in next generations of wireless networks (i.e., 5G and 6G), the low expected profit prevents telecommunication providers from investing in such sparsely populated…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Maurilio Matracia , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This letter studies the performance of a low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication system where the locations of the LEO satellites are modeled as a binomial point process (BPP) on a spherical surface. In particular, we study the user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Anna Talgat , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Next generation mobile networks will rely ever more heavily on resource sharing. In this article we study the sharing of radio access network and spectrum among mobile operators. We assess the impact of sharing these two types of resources…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Jacek Kibiłda , Nicholas J. Kaminski , Luiz A. DaSilva

To improve the cellular energy efficiency, without sacrificing quality-of-service (QoS) at the users, the network topology must be densified to enable higher spatial reuse. We analyze a combination of two densification approaches, namely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Emil Björnson , Marios Kountouris , Mérouane Debbah

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) provide alternative routes for reflected signals to network users, offering numerous applications. This paper explores an innovative approach of strategically deploying RISs along road areas to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-12 Chang-Sik Choi , Junhyeong Kim , Junil Choi

In this study, we revisit the performance analysis of distributed beamforming architectures in dense user-centric cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems in line-of-sight (LoS) scenarios. By incorporating a recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Noor Ul Ain , Lorenzo Miretti , Sławomir Stańczak

In the sixth-generation (6G), with the further expansion of array element number and frequency bands, the wireless communications are expected to operate in the near-field region. The near-field radio communications (NFRC) will become…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Haiyang Miao , Pan Tang , Weirang Zuo , Qi Wei , Lei Tian , Jianhua Zhang

In the prevailing scenario audio, video, data services (i.e. internet), multimedia and broadcasting etc. are being integrated. Decreasing cell size increases capacity but at the same time increases fluctuation and interference too. The…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2012-04-11 Sumit Katiyar , Prof. R. K. Jain , Prof. N. K. Agrawal

Recently, there is a growing interest in achieving integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in the sixth-generation (6G) cellular network. Inspired by this trend and the success of cooperative communication in cloud radio access network,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Qin Shi , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang

The path-loss exponent (PLE) is one of the most crucial parameters in wireless communications to characterize the propagation of fading channels. It is currently adopted for many different kinds of wireless network problems such as power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-12 Yongchang Hu , Geert Leus

Multi-cell cooperation is a promising approach for mitigating inter-cell interference in dense cellular networks. Quantifying the performance of multi-cell cooperation is challenging as it integrates physical-layer techniques and network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-23 Kaibin Huang , Jeffrey G. Andrews

In image segmentation, there is often more than one plausible solution for a given input. In medical imaging, for example, experts will often disagree about the exact location of object boundaries. Estimating this inherent uncertainty and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Miguel Monteiro , Loïc Le Folgoc , Daniel Coelho de Castro , Nick Pawlowski , Bernardo Marques , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Mark van der Wilk , Ben Glocker

Cooperation in cellular networks has been recently suggested as a promising scheme to improve system performance, especially for cell-edge users. In this work, we use stochastic geometry to analyze cooperation models where the positions of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-11 Anastasios Giovanidis , Francois Baccelli

Blocking objects (blockages) between a transmitter and receiver cause wireless communication links to transition from line-of-sight (LOS) to non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation, which can greatly reduce the received power, particularly at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Abhishek K. Gupta , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Robert W. Heath

This paper provides an analytical framework to characterize the performance of Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets), where the positions of base stations and users are modeled by spatial Poisson Point Processes (stochastic geometry). We have…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Giovanni Giambene , Van Anh Le