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Next generation mobile networks will rely ever more heavily on resource sharing. In this article we study the sharing of radio access network and spectrum among mobile operators. We assess the impact of sharing these two types of resources…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Jacek Kibiłda , Nicholas J. Kaminski , Luiz A. DaSilva

A well-known lower bound widely used in the massive MIMO literature hinges on channel hardening, i.e., the phenomenon for which, thanks to the large number of antennas, the effective channel coefficients resulting from beamforming tend to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Giuseppe Caire

Starting from first principles of wave propagation, we consider a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) representation of a communication system between two spatially-continuous volumes. This is the concept of holographic MIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-30 Luca Sanguinetti , Antonio A. D'Amico , Merouane Debbah

Massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) has evolved along two tracks: cellular and cell-free, each with unique advantages and limitations. The cellular approach suffers from worse user spectral efficiency at cell edges, whereas the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

In this paper, a new mathematical framework to the analysis of millimeter wave cellular networks is introduced. Its peculiarity lies in considering realistic path-loss and blockage models, which are derived from experimental data recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Marco Di Renzo

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a key technology for improving the spectral and energy efficiency in 5G-and-beyond wireless networks. For a tractable analysis, most of the previous works on Massive MIMO have been focused on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Merouane Debbah

This paper evaluates the geometrically averaged performance of a wireless communication network assisted by a multitude of distributed reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), where the RIS locations are randomly dropped obeying a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen

This paper presents a framework that enables characterizing analytically the spectral efficiency achievable by D2D (device-to-device) communication integrated with a cellular network. This framework is based on a stochastic geometry…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Geordie George , Ratheesh K. Mungara , Angel Lozano

Effective degree of freedom (EDOF) of a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system represents its equivalent number of independent single-input-single-output (SISO) systems, which directly characterizes the communication performance.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Shuai S. A. Yuan , Zi He , Xiaoming Chen , Chongwen Huang , Wei E. I. Sha

Intelligent reflective surfaces (IRSs) are invoked for improving both spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE). Specifically, an IRS-aided multiple-input multiple-output network is considered, where the performance of randomly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Tianwei Hou , Yuanwei Liu , Zhengyu Song , Xin Sun , Yue Chen , Lajos Hanzo

Multiple antenna (MIMO) devices are widely used to increase reliability and information bit rate. Optimal error rate performance (full diversity and large coding gain), for unknown channel state information at the transmitter and for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Dieter Duyck , Sheng Yang , Fambirai Takawira , Joseph J. Boutros , Marc Moeneclaey

This paper considers large random wireless networks where transmit-and-receive node pairs communicate within a certain range while sharing a common spectrum. By modeling the spatial locations of nodes based on stochastic geometry,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Namyoon Lee , Francois Baccelli , Robert W. Heath

The main usage of cellular networks has changed from voice to data traffic, mostly requested by static users. In this paper, we analyze how a cellular network should be designed to provide such wireless broadband access with maximal energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti , Marios Kountouris

Ergodic capacity and average bit error rate have been widely used to compare the performance of different wireless communication systems. As such recent scientific research and studies revealed strong impact of designing and implementing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-06 Ferkan Yilmaz , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper evaluates the downlink performance of cellular networks in terms of coverage and electromagnetic field exposure (EMFE), in the framework of stochastic geometry. The model is constructed based on datasets for sub-6~GHz macro…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Quentin Gontier , Charles Wiame , Shanshan Wang , Marco Di Renzo , Joe Wiart , François Horlin , Christo Tsigros , Claude Oestges , Philippe De Doncker

The development of mobile virtual network operators, where multiple wireless technologies (e.g. 3G and 4G) or operators with non-overlapping bandwidths are pooled and shared is expected to provide enhanced service with broader coverage,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Abishek Sankararaman , Jeong-woo Cho , Francois Baccelli

Edge intelligence is a scalable solution for analyzing distributed data, but it cannot provide reliable services in large-scale cellular networks unless the inherent aspects of fading and interference are also taken into consideration. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Jaume Anguera Peris , Viktoria Fodor

We derive a novel closed-form lower bound on the ergodic capacity of holographic multiple-input multiple-output (HMIMO) systems enhanced by stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) under Rayleigh fading conditions. The proposed expression is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Ioannis Bartsiokas , Dimitra I. Kaklamani , Iakovos S. Venieris

To improve the cellular energy efficiency, without sacrificing quality-of-service (QoS) at the users, the network topology must be densified to enable higher spatial reuse. We analyze a combination of two densification approaches, namely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Emil Björnson , Marios Kountouris , Mérouane Debbah

It has been observed that an interesting class of non-Gaussian stationary processes is obtained when in the harmonics of a signal with random amplitudes and phases, frequencies can also vary randomly. In the resulting models, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Anastassia Baxevani , Krzysztof Podgórski