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We study the problem of distributed traffic control in the partitioned plane, where the movement of all entities (robots, vehicles, etc.) within each partition (cell) is coupled. Establishing liveness in such systems is challenging, but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Taylor T. Johnson , Sayan Mitra

Pushing data traffic from cellular to WiFi is an example of inter radio access technology (RAT) offloading. While this clearly alleviates congestion on the over-loaded cellular network, the ultimate potential of such offloading and its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Sarabjot Singh , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Jeffrey G. Andrews

We consider a wireless distributed computing system, in which multiple mobile users, connected wirelessly through an access point, collaborate to perform a computation task. In particular, users communicate with each other via the access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Songze Li , Qian Yu , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

The growing demand in indoor small cell networks has given rise to the concept of micro-operators (MOs) for local service delivery. We model and analyze a spectrum sharing system involving such MOs where a buyer MO buys multiple licensed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Tachporn Sanguanpuak , Sudarshan Guruacharya , Ekram Hossain , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

Mobile-edge computation offloading (MECO) offloads intensive mobile computation to clouds located at the edges of cellular networks. Thereby, MECO is envisioned as a promising technique for prolonging the battery lives and enhancing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Changsheng You , Kaibin Huang

We study the urban-scale macroscopic traffic flow in city networks. Star graph is considered as traffic network. Star graphs with controlled traffic flow are transformed to various cell-transmission graphs by using the cell transmission…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-12-10 Takashi Nagatani

Small cell networks have recently been proposed as an important evolution path for the next-generation cellular networks. However, with more and more irregularly deployed base stations (BSs), it is becoming increasingly difficult to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-27 C. Li , J. Zhang , K. B. Letaief

With the rapid increase in demand for mobile data, mobile network operators are trying to expand wireless network capacity by deploying wireless local area network (LAN) hotspots on which they can offload their mobile traffic. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Cheng Zhang , Bo Gu , Zhi Liu , Kyoko Yamori , Yoshiaki Tanaka

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) and wireless power transfer are technologies that can assist in the implementation of next generation wireless networks, which will deploy a large number of computational and energy limited devices. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Constantinos Psomas , Ioannis Krikidis

To meet the surging demand for throughput, 5G cellular networks need to be more heterogeneous and much denser, by deploying more and more small cells. In particular, the number of users in each small cell can change dramatically due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-16 Yunquan Dong , Zhi Chen , Pingyi Fan , Khaled Ben Letaief

As 5th Generation research reaches the twilight, the research community must go beyond 5G and look towards the 2030 connectivity landscape, namely 6G. In this context, this work takes a step towards the 6G vision by proposing a next…

In the evolving landscape of vertical heterogeneous networks, the practice of cell switching particularly for small base stations faces a significant challenge due to the lack of accurate data on the traffic load of sleeping SBSs. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Maryam Salamatmoghadasi , Metin Ozturk , Halim Yanikomeroglu

A two-tier heterogeneous cellular network (HCN) with intra-tier and inter-tier dependence is studied. The macro cell deployment follows a Poisson point process (PPP) and two different clustered point processes are used to model the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Ejder Baştuğ , Mehdi Bennis , Marios Kountouris , Mérouane Debbah

This paper presents the concept, architectural design, and performance evaluation of a 5G Mobile Cell (MC) used to provide 5G wireless connectivity to User Equipment (UE) in areas with limited fixed 5G infrastructures or subject to adverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-08 José Ruela , Ivan Cojocaru , André Coelho , Rui Campos , Manuel Ricardo

Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication may provide high data rates to vehicles via millimeter-wave (mmWave) microcellular networks. This paper uses stochastic geometry to analyze the coverage of urban mmWave microcellular networks.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Yuyang Wang , Kiran Venugopal , Andreas F. Molisch , Robert W. Heath

Dramatic mobile data traffic growth has spurred a dense deployment of small cell base stations (SCBSs). Small cells enhance the spectrum efficiency and thus enlarge the capacity of mobile networks. Although SCBSs consume much less power…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Tao Han , Nirwan Ansari

Many vehicles spend a significant amount of time in urban traffic congestion. Due to the evolution of autonomous cars, driver assistance systems, and in-vehicle entertainment, many vehicles have plentiful computational and communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Kanika Sharma , Bernard Butler , Brendan Jennings

In this study, the concept of small worlds is investigated in the context of large-scale wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. Wireless networks are spatial graphs that are usually much more clustered than random networks and have much…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Ahmed Helmy

Caching popular contents at the edge of the network can positively impact the performance and future sustainability of wireless networks in several ways, e.g., end-to-end access delay reduction and peak rate increase. In this paper, we aim…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Marco Maso , Italo Atzeni , Imène Ghamnia , Ejder Baştuğ , Mérouane Debbah

In this paper we present a network model to study the impact of spatial distribution of constituents, coupling between them and diffusive processes in the context of biological situations. The model is in terms of network of mobile elements…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Kanchan Thadani , Ashutosh