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Energy consumption is a main issue of concern in wireless networks. Energy minimization increases the time that networks' nodes work properly without recharging or substituting batteries. Another criterion for network performance is data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-13 Amirmahdi Khodaian , Babak H. Khalaj

Movable antenna (MA) has gained increasing attention in the field of wireless communications due to its exceptional capability to proactively reconfigure wireless channels via localized antenna movements. In this paper, we investigate the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Nianzu Li , Peiran Wu , Lipeng Zhu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

This paper addresses the cell association problem in the downlink of a multi-tier heterogeneous network (HetNet), where base stations (BSs) have finite number of resource blocks (RBs) available to distribute among their associated users.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Hamidreza Boostanimehr , Vijay K. Bhargava

Joint unicast and multicast transmissions are becoming increasingly important in practical wireless systems, such as Internet of Things networks. This paper investigates a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output system that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Mustafa S. Abbas , Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Hyundong Shin , Michail Matthaiou

This work proposes novel approaches that jointly design user equipment (UE) association and power control (PC) in a downlink user-centric cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CFmMIMO) network, where each UE is only served by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Chongzheng Hao , Tung Thanh Vu , Hien Quoc Ngo , Minh N. Dao , Xiaoyu Dang , Chenghua Wang , Michail Matthaiou

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been considered one of the most promising radio access techniques for next-generation cellular networks. In this paper, we study the joint user and power scheduling for downlink NOMA over fading…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Do-Yup Kim , Hamid Jafarkhani , Jang-Won Lee

In order to cope with the ever increasing traffic load that networks will need to support, a new approach for planning cellular networks deployments should be followed. Traditionally, cell association and resource allocation has been based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-08 Gabriel Otero Pérez , Manuel Fernández Veiga

A scalable framework is developed to allocate radio resources across a large number of densely deployed small cells with given traffic statistics on a slow timescale. Joint user association and spectrum allocation is first formulated as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Binnan Zhuang , Dongning Guo , Ermin Wei , Michael L. Honig

In this work, we propose a globally optimal joint successive interference cancellation (SIC) ordering and power allocation (JSPA) algorithm for the sum-rate maximization problem in downlink multi-cell non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Sepehr Rezvani , Eduard A. Jorswieck , Nader Mokari , Mohammad R. Javan

Network utility maximization (NUM) is a well-studied problem for network traffic management and resource allocation. Because of the inherent decentralization and complexity of networks, most researches develop decentralized NUM algorithms.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Ying Tian , Zhiliang Wang , Xia Yin , Xingang Shi , Jiahai Yang , Han Zhang

This paper first considers a multicell network deployment where the base station (BS) of each cell communicates with its cell-edge user with the assistance of an amplify-and-forward (AF) relay node. Equipped with a power splitter and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ali A. Nasir , Duy T. Ngo , Xiangyun Zhou , Rodney A. Kennedy , Salman Durrani

Recent studies indicate the feasibility of in-band fullduplex (FD) wireless communications, where a wireless radio transmits and receives simultaneously in the same band. Due to its potential to increase the capacity, analyzing the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Peyman Tehrani , Farshad Lahouti , Michele Zorzi

This letter considers the problem of joint user association (UA), sub-channel assignment, antenna selection (AS), and power control in the uplink (UL) of a heterogeneous network such that the data rate of small cell users can be maximized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Ata Khalili , Soroush Akhlaghi , Hina Tabassum , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

We examine the problem of optimizing resource allocation in the uplink for a user-centric, cell-free, multi-input multi-output network. We start by modeling and developing resource allocation algorithms for two standard network operation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Zehua Li , Raviraj Adve

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

In this paper, we design an association scheme to maximize the sum energy efficiency for massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) enabled heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs). Considering that the final formulated problem is in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-06 Tianqing Zhou

Recently, the so-called cell-free Massive MIMO architecture has been introduced, wherein a very large number of distributed access points (APs) simultaneously and jointly serve a much smaller number of mobile stations (MSs). A variant of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Stefano Buzzi , Alessio Zappone

A novel multiuser communication system with movable antennas (MAs) is proposed, where the antenna position optimization is exploited to enhance the downlink sum-rate. The joint optimization of the transmit beamforming vector and transmit MA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Jianchi Zhu , Chongjun Ouyang

In this paper, energy efficient resource allocation is considered for an uplink hybrid system, where non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is integrated into orthogonal multiple access (OMA). To ensure the quality of service for the users,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Ming Zeng , Animesh Yadav , Octavia A. Dobre , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we study the problem of reducing the energy consumption in a mobile communication network; we select the smallest set of active base stations that can preserve the quality of service (the minimum data rate) required by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-28 Emmanuel Pollakis , Renato Luis Garrido Cavalcante , Slawomir Stańczak