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We investigate network performance of ultra-dense heterogeneous networks (HetNets) and study the maximum energy-efficient base station (BS) deployment incorporating probabilistic non-line-of-sight (NLoS) and line-of-sight (LoS)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Bin Yang , Guoqiang Mao , Xiaohu Ge , Ming Ding , Xuan Yang

In this work, we analyze the performance of the uplink (UL) of a cellular network where the base station (BS) locations follow a homogeneous Poisson point process (PPP), and the locations of users and BSs are spatially coupled. In order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Priyabrata Parida , Harpreet S. Dhillon

Enabling the integration of aerial mobile users into existing cellular networks would make possible a number of promising applications. However, current cellular networks have not been designed to serve aerial users, and hence an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Mohammad Mahdi Azari , Fernando Rosas , Alessandro Chiumento , Sofie Pollin

In this letter, we focus on rateless coded adaptive transmission in a cellular downlink. Based on a stochastic geometry model for the locations of BSs, we evaluate the meta-distribution of rate, i.e., the distribution of rate conditioned on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Amogh Rajanna , Carl P. Dettmann

This paper deals with the problem of localization in a cellular network in a dense urban scenario. Global Navigation Satellite System typically performs poorly in urban environments when there is no line-of-sight between the devices and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Çağkan Yapar , Ron Levie , Gitta Kutyniok , Giuseppe Caire

Flat-fading channel models are usually invoked for analyzing the performance of massive spatial modulation multiple-input multiple-output (SM-MIMO) systems. However, in the context of broadband SM transmission, the severe…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Yue Sun , Jintao Wang , Longzhuang He , Jian Song

This article investigates the performance of an ultra-dense network (UDN) from an energy-efficiency (EE) standpoint leveraging the interplay between stochastic geometry (SG) and mean-field game (MFG) theory. In this setting, base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Seong-Lyun Kim , Mérouane Debbah

Cell-free wireless networks deploy distributed access points (APs) to simultaneously serve user equipments (UEs) across the service region and are regarded as one of the most promising network architectural paradigms. Despite recent…

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Mitigating intercell interference by employing fractional frequency reuse algorithms is one of the important approaches to improving user performance in 5G and Beyond 5G cellular network systems, which typically have a high density of Base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Bach Hung Luu , Samuel Harry Gardner , Sinh Cong Lam , Trong Minh Hoang

In this paper, we present a new and significant theoretical discovery. If the absolute height difference between base station (BS) antenna and user equipment (UE) antenna is larger than zero, then the network capacity performance in terms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Ming Ding , David Lopez Perez

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (massive MIMO) and small cell densification are complementary key 5G enablers. Given a fixed number of the entire base-station antennas per unit area, this paper fairly compares (i) to deploy few base…

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Benefitting from multi-user gain brought by multi-antenna techniques, space division multiple access (SDMA) is capable of significantly enhancing spatial throughput (ST) in wireless networks. Nevertheless, we show in this letter that, even…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Junyu Liu , Min Sheng , Jiandong Li

The spectral efficiency of a representative uplink of a given length, in interference-limited, spatially-distributed wireless networks with hexagonal cells, simple power control, and multiantenna linear Minimum-Mean-Square-Error receivers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Siddhartan Govindasamy , Daniel W. Bliss , David H. Staelin

In this paper, we investigate the impact of channel aging on the performance of cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with both spatial correlation and pilot contamination. We derive novel closed-form uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai

One of the principal underlying assumptions of current approaches to the analysis of heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets) with random spatial models is the uniform distribution of users independent of the base station (BS) locations.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Chiranjib Saha , Mehrnaz Afshang , Harpreet S. Dhillon

The growing use of aerial user equipments (UEs) in various applications requires ubiquitous and reliable connectivity for safe control and data exchange between these devices and ground stations. Key questions that need to be addressed when…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Mohammad Mahdi Azari , Fernando Rosas , Sofie Pollin

The support for aerial users has become the focus of recent 3GPP standardizations of 5G, due to their high maneuverability and flexibility for on-demand deployment. In this paper, probabilistic caching is studied for ultra-dense small-cell…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Fei Song , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Long Shi , Feng Shu , Meixia Tao , Wen Chen , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we analyze and optimize the energy efficiency of downlink cellular networks. With the aid of tools from stochastic geometry, we introduce a new closed-form analytical expression of the potential spectral efficiency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Marco Di Renzo , Alessio Zappone , Thanh Tu Lam , Merouane Debbah

We analyze the coverage probability of multi-user uplink cellular networks with fractional power control. We use a stochastic geometry approach where the mobile users are distributed as a Poisson Point Process (PPP), whereas the serving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-02 F. Javier Martin-Vega , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez , Gerardo Gomez , Mari Carmen Aguayo-Torres