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In cellular heterogeneous networks (HetNets), a number of distributed base stations cooperatively provide services to multiple mobile users. This paper addresses joint base-station activation and coordinated beamforming design for downlink…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-11 Siguo Bi , Zhaoxi Fang , Xiaojun Yuan , Xin Wang

With the explosive growth of smart devices and mobile data traffic, limited fronthaul capacity has become a notable bottleneck of green communication access networks, such as cloud radio access networks(C-RANs). In this paper, we proposed a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Zhi Yu , Ke Wang , Hong Ji , Xi Li , Heli Zhang

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

Energy efficient communication technology has attracted much attention due to the explosive growth of energy consumption in current wireless communication systems. In this letter we focus on fairness-based energy efficiency and aim to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Shiwen He , Yongming Huang , Shi Jin , Fei Yu , Luxi Yang

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

Minimum connected dominating set problem is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem in graph theory. Finding connected dominating set is of high interest in various domains such as wireless sensor networks, optical networks, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Hayet Dahmri , Salim Bouamama

Cell-free wireless networks have attracted significant interest for their ability to eliminate cell-edge effects and deliver uniformly high service quality through macro-diversity. In this paper, we develop an algorithm to jointly optimize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Achini Jayawardane , Rajitha Senanayake , Erfan Khordad , Jamie Evans

In this paper, we propose a novel wireless scheme that integrates satellite, airborne, and terrestrial networks aiming to support ground users. More specifically, we study the enhancement of the achievable users' throughput assisted with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Ahmad Alsharoa , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This work aims to jointly optimize the coding and node selection to minimize the processing time for distributed computing tasks over wireless edge networks. Since the joint optimization problem formulation is NP-hard and nonlinear, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Cong T. Nguyen , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Hoang-Anh Pham , Eryk Dutkiewicz

Cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is considered, where distributed access points (APs) multiply the received signal by the conjugate of the estimated channel, and send back a quantized version of this weighted signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Manijeh Bashar , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Alister G. Burr , Hien Quoc Ngo , Merouane Debbah , Pei Xiao

Commonly considered user association frameworks in millimeter-wave communications are based on the sum rate maximization, and they essentially neglect user specific rate and service requirements. Furthermore, new features of millimeter-wave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Veljko Boljanovic , Forough Yaghoubi , Danijela Cabric

In this thesis, we study the downlink multiuser scheduling and power allocation problem for systems with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT). In the first part of the thesis, we focus on multiuser scheduling. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Maryna Chynonova

This paper considers a broadcast multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network with multiple users and simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT). In this scenario, it is assumed that some users are able to harvest power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Javier Rubio , Antonio Pascual-Iserte

In this paper, we investigate a novel minimum length scheduling problem to determine the optimal power control, and scheduling for constant and continuous rate models, while considering concurrent transmission of users, energy causality,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-21 Muhammad Shahid Iqbal , Yalcin Sadi , Sinem Coleri

Optimal AP clustering and power allocation are critical in user-centric cell-free massive MIMO systems. Existing deep learning models lack flexibility to handle dynamic network configurations. Furthermore, many approaches overlook pilot…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Irched Chafaa , Giacomo Bacci , Luca Sanguinetti

In heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs), it is desirable to offload mobile users to small cells, which are typically significantly less congested than the macrocells. To achieve sufficient load balancing, the offloaded users often have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-22 Sarabjot Singh , Jeffrey G. Andrews

In this paper, we consider a resource allocation with carrier aggregation optimization problem in long term evolution (LTE) cellular networks. In our proposed model, users are running elastic or inelastic traffic. Each user equipment (UE)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Haya Shajaiah , Ahmed Abdelhadi , Charles Clancy

In ultra-dense millimeter wave (mmWave) networks, mmWave signals suffer from severe path losses and are easily blocked by obstacles. Meanwhile, ultra-dense deployment causes excessive handovers, which reduces the data link reliability. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Ailing Chen , Shengchang Li , Jichen Xiong , Kezhong Jin , Zhenzhou Tang

Multicell joint processing can mitigate inter-cell interference and thereby increase the spectral efficiency of cellular systems. Most previous work has assumed phase-aligned (coherent) transmissions from different base transceiver stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mingguang Xu , Dongning Guo , Michael L. Honig

Improving throughput for cell-edge users through coordinated resource allocation has been a long-standing driver of research in wireless cellular networks. While a variety of wireless resource management problems focus on sum utility,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Ahmad Ali Khan , Raviraj Adve