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Next generation cellular networks will be heterogeneous with dense deployment of small cells in order to deliver high data rate per unit area. Traffic variations are more pronounced in a small cell, which in turn lead to more dynamic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Binnan Zhuang , Dongning Guo , Michael L. Honig

This letter investigates the performance of content caching in a heterogeneous cellular network (HetNet) consisting of fluid antenna system (FAS)-equipped mobile users (MUs) and millimeter-wave (mm-wave) single-antenna small base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , Kin-Fai Tong , Yangyang Zhang

Heterogeneous cellular networks (HCN) with embedded small cells are considered, where multiple mobile users wish to download network content of different popularity. By caching data into the small-cell base stations (SBS), we will design…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-30 Jun Li , Youjia Chen , Zihuai Lin , Wen Chen , Branka Vucetic , Lajos Hanzo

Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) are known to enhance the bandwidth efficiency and throughput of wireless networks by more effectively utilizing the network resources. However, the higher density of users and access points in HetNets…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Hani Mehrpouyan , Michail Matthaiou , Rui Wang , George K. Karagiannidis , Yingbo Hua

One of the main goals of the future wireless networks is improving the users quality of experience (QoE). In this paper, we consider the problem of QoE-based resource allocation in the downlink of a massive multiple-input multiple-output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Hadis Abarghouyi , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh , Emil Bjornson

Heterogeneous wireless networks (HetNets) provide a means to increase network capacity by introducing small cells and adopting a layered architecture. HetNets allocate resources flexibly through time sharing and cell range…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-08-11 Stephen V. Hanly , Chunshan Liu , Phil Whiting

Wireless network virtualization has been well recognized as a way to improve the flexibility of wireless networks by decoupling the functionality of the system and implementing infrastructure and spectrum as services. Recent studies have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Zhiwen Hu , Zijie Zheng , Tao Wang , Lingyang Song , Xiaoming Li

Full-duplex self-backhauling is promising to provide cost-effective and flexible backhaul connectivity for ultra-dense wireless networks, but also poses a great challenge to resource management between the access and backhaul links. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Erkai Chen , Meixia Tao , Nan Zhang

Caching popular contents is a promising way to offload the mobile data traffic in wireless networks, but so far the potential advantage of caching in improving physical layer security (PLS) is rarely considered. In this paper, we contribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Wu Zhao , Zhiyong Chen , Kuikui Li , Bin Xia

Network densification with small cell base stations is a promising solution to satisfy future data traffic demands. However, increasing small cell base station density alone does not ensure better users quality-of-experience and incurs high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-02 Syed Tamoor-ul-Hassan , Mehdi Bennis , Pedro H. J. Nardelli , Matti Latva-Aho

3GPP LTE-Advanced has started a new study item to investigate Heterogeneous Network (HetNet) deployments as a cost effective way to deal with the unrelenting traffic demand. HetNets consist of a mix of macrocells, remote radio heads, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-19 David Lopez-Perez , Ismail Guvenc , Guillaume de la Roche , Marios Kountouris , Tony Q. S. Quek , Jie Zhang

In this paper, we jointly consider communication, caching and computation in a multi-user cache-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) system, consisting of one base station (BS) of caching and computing capabilities and multiple users with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Ying Cui , Wen He , Chun Ni , Chengjun Guo , Zhi Liu

Multihop ad hoc wireless networks consist of mobile nodes that communicate with each other without any fixed infrastructure. The nodes in these networks are power constrained, since they operate in limited battery energy. Cooperative…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-06-23 Preetha Theresa Joy , K. Poulose Jacob

In-network caching is likely to become an integral part of various networked systems (e.g., 5G networks, LPWAN and IoT systems) in the near future. In this paper, we compare and contrast model-based and machine learning approaches for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Adita Kulkarni , Anand Seetharam

The backhaul of hundreds of light fidelity (LiFi) base stations (BSs) constitutes a major challenge. Indoor wireless optical backhauling is a novel approach whereby the interconnections between adjacent LiFi BSs are provided by way of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Hossein Kazemi , Majid Safari , Harald Haas

Replicating or caching popular content in memories distributed across the network is a technique to reduce peak network loads. Conventionally, the main performance gain of this caching was thought to result from making part of the requested…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Urs Niesen

The coded caching scheme proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen considers the delivery of files in a given content library to users through a deterministic error-free network where a common multicast message is sent to all users at a fixed rate,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Mozhgan Bayat , Ratheesh K. Mungara , Giuseppe Caire

With the growing demand for latency-critical and computation-intensive Internet of Things (IoT) services, the IoT-oriented network architecture, mobile edge computing (MEC), has emerged as a promising technique to reinforce the computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Jiechen Chen , Hong Xing , Xiaohui Lin , Arumugam Nallanathan , Suzhi Bi

Content caching at the edge of network is a promising technique to alleviate the burden of backhaul networks. In this paper, we consider content caching along time in a base station with limited cache capacity. As the popularity of contents…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Ghafour Ahani , Di Yuan

Considering a heterogeneous network (HetNet) system consisting of a macro tier overlaid with a second tier of small cells (SCs), this paper studies the mean square error (MSE) based precoding design to be employed by the macro base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Yongyu Dai , Xiaodai Dong , Wu-Sheng Lu