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Two-way relay is potentially an effective approach to spectrum sharing and aggregation by allowing simultaneous bidirectional transmissions between source-destinations pairs. This paper studies the two-way $2\times2\times2$ relay network, a…
A symmetric butterfly network (BFN) with a full-duplex relay operating in a bi-directional fashion for feedback is considered. This network is relevant for a variety of wireless networks, including cellular systems dealing with cell-edge…
Achievable degrees-of-freedom (DoF) of the large-scale interfering two-way relay network is investigated. The network consists of $K$ pairs of communication nodes (CNs) and $N$ relay nodes (RNs). It is assumed that $K\ll N$ and each pair of…
This paper considers a fully-connected interference network with a relay in which multiple users equipped with a single antenna want to exchange multiple unicast messages with other users in the network by sharing the relay equipped with…
We investigate the benefits of relays in multi-user wireless networks with bursty user traffic, where intermittent data traffic restricts the users to bursty transmissions. To this end, we study a two-user bursty MIMO Gaussian interference…
We consider two-source two-destination (i.e., two-unicast) multi-hop wireless networks that have a layered structure with arbitrary connectivity. We show that, if the channel gains are chosen independently according to continuous…
This paper considers a class of wireline networks, derived from the well-known butterfly network, over which two independent unicast sessions take place simultaneously. The main objectives are to understand when network coding type of…
Degrees of freedom (DoF) is studied in the downlink of a heterogenous wireless network modeled as a two-layered interference network. The first layer of the interference network is the backhaul layer between macro base stations (MB) and…
We study the degrees of freedom (DOF) of a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) two-way X relay channel, where there are two groups of source nodes and one relay node, each equipped with multiple antennas, and each of the two source nodes…
The degrees of freedom (DoF) of the MIMO Y-channel, a multi-way communication network consisting of 3 users and a relay, are characterized for arbitrary number of antennas. The converse is provided by cut-set bounds and novel genie-aided…
An uplink-downlink two-cell cellular network is studied in which the first base station (BS) with $M_1$ antennas receives independent messages from its $N_1$ serving users, while the second BS with $M_2$ antennas transmits independent…
In a $K$-pair-user two-way interference channel (TWIC), $2K$ messages and $2K$ transmitters/receivers form a $K$-user IC in the forward direction ($K$ messages) and another $K$-user IC in the backward direction which operate in full-duplex…
We characterize the degrees-of-freedom (DoF) region of a class of two-unicast wireless networks under the assumption of delayed channel state information at the transmitters. We consider a layered topology with arbitrary connectivity, and…
The layered two-hop, two-flow interference network is considered that consists of two sources, two relays and two destinations with the first hop network between he sources and the relays and the second hop network between relays and…
We study the symmetric degrees-of-freedom (DoF) of partially connected interference networks under linear coding strategies at transmitters without channel state information beyond topology. We assume that the receivers are equipped with…
We study the degrees of freedom (DoF) of cellular networks in which a full duplex (FD) base station (BS) equipped with multiple transmit and receive antennas communicates with multiple mobile users. We consider two different scenarios. In…
In this paper, we characterize the asymmetric total degrees of freedom (DoF) of a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) 3-way channel. Each node has a separate-antenna full-duplex MIMO transceiver with a different number of antennas, where…
In this paper, we consider a two-way or bidirectional communications system with a relay equipped with multiple antennas. We show that when the downlink channel state information is not known at the relay, the benefit of having additional…
We study the sum capacity of multiple unicasts in wired and wireless multihop networks. With 2 source nodes and 2 sink nodes, there are a total of 4 independent unicast sessions (messages), one from each source to each sink node (this…
We consider the two-hop interference channel (IC), which consists of two source-destination pairs communicating with each other via two relays. We analyze the degrees of freedom (DoF) of this network when the relays are restricted to…