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In this letter, we study the robust beamforming problem for the multi-antenna wireless broadcasting system with simultaneous information and power transmission, under the assumption of imperfect channel state information (CSI) at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-23 Zhengzheng Xiang , Meixia Tao

We investigate the user-to-cell association (or user-clustering) and beamforming design for Cloud Radio Access Networks (CRANs) and Fog Radio Access Networks (FogRANs) for 5G. CRAN enables cloud centralized resource and power allocation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-06 Nicolas Pontois , Megumi Kaneko , Thi Ha Ly Dinh , Lila Boukhatem

This paper considers a downlink cloud radio access network (C-RAN) in which all the base-stations (BSs) are connected to a central computing cloud via digital backhaul links with finite capacities. Each user is associated with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Binbin Dai , Wei Yu

The combination of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an efficient solution to significantly enhance the energy efficiency of the wireless communication system. In this paper, we focus on a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Ximing Xie , Fang Fang , Zhiguo Ding

Cloud-radio access networks (C-RAN) help overcoming the scarcity of radio resources by enabling dense deployment of base-stations (BSs), and connecting them to a central-processor (CP). This paper considers the downlink of a C-RAN, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Alaa Alameer Ahmad , Hayssam Dahrouj , Anas Chaaban , Aydin Sezgin , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper considers downlink multi-group multicasting via beamforming facilitated by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). We develop a fast and scalable algorithm for the joint base station (BS) and RIS beamforming optimization to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Mohammad Ebrahimi , Min Dong , Mitra Hekmat

Consider the single-group multicast beamforming problem, where multiple users receive the same data stream simultaneously from a single transmitter. The problem is NP-hard and all existing algorithms for the problem either find suboptimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Cheng Lu , Ya-Feng Liu

A simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-aided near-field integrated sensing, communication, and power transfer (ISCPT) framework is proposed. We formulate a robust harvested power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Zahra Rostamikafaki , Francois Chan , Claude D'Amours

It is known that data rates in standard cellular networks are limited due to inter-cell interference. An effective solution of this problem is to use the multi-cell cooperation idea. In Cloud Radio Access Network, which is a candidate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Fehmi Emre Kadan , Ali Özgür Yılmaz

In light of the premises of beyond fifth generation (B5G) networks, the need for better exploiting the capabilities of cloud-enabled networks arises, so as to cope with the large-scale interference resulting from the massive increase of…

The heterogeneous cloud radio access network (Cloud-RAN) provides a revolutionary way to densify radio access networks. It enables centralized coordination and signal processing for efficient interference management and flexible network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Yuanming Shi , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief , Bo Bai , Wei Chen

The main challenges in designing downlink coordinated multicast beamforming in massive multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) cellular networks are the complex computational solutions and significant fronthaul overhead for centralized…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-20 Shiqi Yin , Min Dong

In this paper, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is employed in a millimeter wave (mmWave) integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system. To alleviate the multi-hop attenuation, the semi-self sensing RIS approach is adopted,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-03 Wanting Lyu , Songjie Yang , Yue Xiu , Ya Li , Hongjun He , Chau Yuen , Zhongpei Zhang

This paper considers a spectrum sharing based cognitive radio (CR) communication system, which consists of a secondary user (SU) having multiple transmit antennas and a single receive antenna and a primary user (PU) having a single receive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-04 Lan Zhang , Ying-Chang Liang , Yan Xin , H. Vincent Poor

This paper considers downlink multicast transmit beamforming for secure layered transmission systems with wireless simultaneous information and power transfer. We study the power allocation algorithm design for minimizing the total transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober , Hussein Alnuweiri

The cognitive radio (CR) network is a promising network architecture that meets the requirement of enhancing scarce radio spectrum utilization. Meanwhile, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) is a promising solution to enhance the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-25 Jinglian He , Kaiqiang Yu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi

The robust beamforming problem in multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink networks of simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) is studied in this paper. Adopting the time switching fashion to perform energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-22 Yinglei Teng , Wanxin Zhao , Mei Yan , Yong Zhang , Mei Song

Next-generation wireless networks need to handle massive user access effectively. This paper addresses the problem of joint group scheduling and multicast beamforming for downlink transmission with many active user groups. Aiming to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Chong Zhang , Min Dong , Ben Liang , Ali Afana , Yahia Ahmed

A multiple-input single-output cognitive radio downlink network is studied with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer. In this network, a secondary user coexists with multiple primary users and multiple energy harvesting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Fuhui Zhou , Zan Li , Julian Cheng , Qunwei Li , Jiangbo Si

This paper studies energy-efficient coordinated beamforming in multi-cell multi-user multigroup multicast multiple-input single-output systems. We aim at maximizing the network energy efficiency by taking into account the fact that some of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Oskari Tervo , Le-Nam Tran , Harri Pennanen , Symeon Chatzinotas , Markku Juntti , Björn Ottersten