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We propose a multi-sender, multi-receiver over-the-air computation (OAC) framework for wireless networked control systems (WNCS) with structural constraints. Our approach enables actuators to directly compute and apply control signals from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Seif Hussein , Chinwendu Enyioha , Carlo Fischione

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

Caching popular content at the wireless edge is recently proposed as a means to reduce congestion at the backbone of cellular networks. The two main actors involved are Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and Content Providers (CPs). In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Jonatan Krolikowski , Anastasios Giovanidis , Marco Di Renzo

Wireless networks employing small cells like femtocells are considered to be the choice of network deployment for 4G or advanced networks. This hierarchical deployment of cells introduces the necessity of effective frequency planning for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Md. Tashikur Rahman , Md. Didarul Alam , Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury

The deployment of small cells is expected to gain huge momentum in the near future, as a solution for managing the skyrocketing mobile data demand growth. Local caching of popular files at the small cell base stations has been recently…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-03-03 Konstantinos Poularakis , George Iosifidis , Vasilis Sourlas , Leandros Tassiulas

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) has already shown the potential in enabling mobile devices to bear the computation-intensive applications by offloading some tasks to a nearby access point (AP) integrated with a MEC server (MES). However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Joshua Bassey , Xiangfang Li , Timothy Kroecker , Lijun Qian

Recent advancements in graph-based analysis and solutions of instantly decodable network coding (IDNC) trigger the interest to extend them to more complicated opportunistic network coding (ONC) scenarios, with limited increase in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Sameh Sorour , Neda Aboutorab , Parastoo Sadeghi , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

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

This paper investigates uplink multiple access for the coexistence of enhanced mobile broadband+ (eMBB+) and massive machine-type communications+ (mMTC+) in terminal-centric cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems. We propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Sergi Liesegang , Lou Salaün , Chung Shue Chen , Stefano Buzzi

We consider wireless backhauling for a scenario where two small-cell base stations (SC-BSs) employ the same time and frequency resources for offloading their data to a common macro-cell base station (MC-BS). The two SC-BSs allocate a part…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Vahid Jamali , Nikola Zlatanov , Robert Schober

Optical Wireless Communication networks (OWC) has emerged as a promising technology that enables high-speed and reliable communication bandwidth for a variety of applications. In this work, we investigated applying Random Linear Network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ahmed Ali Hassan , Ahmed Adnan Qidan , Taisir Elgorashi , Jaafar Elmirghani

By moving to millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies, base stations (BSs) will be densely deployed to provide seamless coverage in sixth generation (6G) mobile communication systems, which, unfortunately, leads to severe cell-edge problem. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Junyuan Wang , Lin Dai , Lu Yang , Bo Bai

Wireless charging coupled with computation offloading in edge networks offers a promising solution for realizing power-hungry and computation intensive applications on user devices. We consider a multi-access edge computing (MEC) system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-14 Rafia Malik , Mai Vu

Recent years have witnessed an exponential growth of mobile data traffic, which may lead to a serious traffic burn on the wireless networks and considerable power consumption. Network densification and edge caching are effective approaches…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Xiongwei Wu , Qiang Li , Xiuhua Li , Victor C. M. Leung , P. C. Ching

Cell Switch-Off (CSO) is recognized as a promising approach to reduce the energy consumption in next-generation cellular networks. However, CSO poses serious challenges not only from the resource allocation perspective but also from the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-07 David González G. , Jyri Hämäläinen , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Mario García-Lozano , Gamini Senarath

Coded caching is able to exploit accumulated cache size and hence superior to uncoded caching by distributing different fractions of a file in different nodes. This work investigates coded caching in a large-scale small-cell network (SCN)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Xuejian Xu , Meixia Tao

In this paper, we present throughput analysis and optimization of bandwidth efficient selective retransmission method at modulation layer for conventional Chase Combining (CC) method under orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Taniya Shafique , Muhammad Zia , Huy Dung Han

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

This paper considers a relay-assisted bidirectional cellular network where the base station (BS) communicates with each mobile station (MS) using OFDMA for both uplink and downlink. The goal is to improve the overall system performance by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-03 Yuan Liu , Meixia Tao , Bin Li , Hui Shen

This paper investigates the price-based resource allocation strategies for the uplink transmission of a spectrum-sharing femtocell network, in which a central macrocell is underlaid with distributed femtocells, all operating over the same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Xin Kang , Rui Zhang , Mehul Motani