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User scheduling and multiuser multi-antenna (MU-MIMO) transmission are at the core of high rate data-oriented downlink schemes of the next-generation of cellular systems (e.g., LTE-Advanced). Scheduling selects groups of users according to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hooman Shirani-Mehr , Haralabos C. Papadopoulos , Sean A. Ramprashad , Giuseppe Caire

In the modern era, cellular communication consumers are exponentially increasing as they find the system more user-friendly. Due to enormous users and their numerous demands, it has become a mandate to make the best use of the limited radio…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-10-15 Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury , Mohammad Arif Hossain , Shakil Ahmed , Yeong Min Jang

We develop two distributed downlink resource allocation algorithms for user-centric, cell-free, spatially-distributed, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks. In such networks, each user is served by a subset of nearby transmitters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Hussein A. Ammar , Raviraj Adve , Shahram Shahbazpanahi , Gary Boudreau , Kothapalli Venkata Srinivas

In a two tier cellular network -- comprised of a central macrocell underlaid with shorter range femtocell hotspots -- cross-tier interference limits overall capacity with universal frequency reuse. To quantify near-far effects with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Vikram Chandrasekhar , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Tarik Muharemovic , Zukang Shen , Alan Gatherer

With the increasing number of user equipment (UE) and data demands, denser access points (APs) are being employed. Resource allocation problems have been extensively researched with interference treated as noise. It is well understood that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Jing Li , Dongning Guo

The downlink transmission in multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems has been extensively studied from both communication-theoretic and information-theoretic perspectives. Most of these papers assume perfect/imperfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-05 Jubin Jose , Alexei Ashikhmin , Phil Whiting , Sriram Vishwanath

Multi-tier networks with large-array base stations (BSs) that are able to operate in the "massive MIMO" regime are envisioned to play a key role in meeting the exploding wireless traffic demands. Operated over small cells with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Qiaoyang Ye , Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu , Haralabos C. Papadopoulos

A new class of multi agent single machine scheduling problems is introduced, where each job is associated with a self interested agent with a utility function decreasing in completion time. We aim to achieve a fair solution by maximizing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Gaia Nicosia , Andrea Pacifici , Ulrich Pferschy

The multiple access scheduling decides how the channel is shared among the nodes in the network. Typical scheduling algorithms aims at increasing the channel utilization and thereby throughput of the network. This paper describes several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Vijaya Yajnanarayana , Klas E. G. Magnusson , Rasmus Brandt , Satyam Dwivedi , Peter Händel

In this paper, we propose, implement, and test two novel downlink LTE scheduling algorithms. The implementation and testing of these algorithms were in Matlab, and they are based on the use of Reinforcement Learning, more specifically, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Najem N Sirhan , Manel Martinez-Ramon

In this paper, we study the downlink multiuser scheduling problem for systems with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT). We design optimal scheduling algorithms that maximize the long-term average system throughput…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Maryna Chynonova , Rania Morsi , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

Modern radio communication is faced with a problem about how to distribute restricted frequency to users in a certain space. Since our task is to minimize the number of repeaters, a natural idea is enlarging coverage area. However, coverage…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-12-08 Yi Bao , Chao Wang , Ming Chen

We introduce an opportunistic interference mitigation (OIM) protocol, where a user scheduling strategy is utilized in $K$-cell uplink networks with time-invariant channel coefficients and base stations (BSs) having $M$ antennas. Each BS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Bang Chul Jung , Dohyung Park , Won-Yong Shin

Cell association scheme determines which base station (BS) and mobile user (MU) should be associated with and also plays a significant role in determining the average data rate a MU can achieve in heterogeneous networks. However, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Bin Yang , Guoqiang Mao , Xiaohu Ge , Tao Han

Coordinated precoding based on interference alignment is a promising technique for improving the throughputs in future wireless multicell networks. In small networks, all base stations can typically jointly coordinate their precoding. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Rasmus Brandt , Rami Mochaourab , Mats Bengtsson

A wireless network operator typically divides the radio spectrum it possesses into a number of subbands. In a cellular network those subbands are then reused in many cells. To mitigate co-channel interference, a joint spectrum and power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-22 Yasar Sinan Nasir , Dongning Guo

In order to understand the key merits of multiuser diversity techniques in relay-assisted cellular multihop networks, this paper analyzes the spectral efficiency of opportunistic (i.e., channel-aware) scheduling algorithms over a fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ozgur Oyman

This paper proposes efficient multiple-access schemes for large wireless networks based on the transmitters' buffer state information and their transceivers' duplex transmission capability. First, we investigate the case of half-duplex…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Ahmed El Shafie , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Ridha Hamila

In this paper, we propose network massive multiple- input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where three radio units (RUs) connected via one digital unit (DU) support multiple user equipments (UEs) at a cell-boundary through the same radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-20 Changwoo Lee , Chan-Byoung Chae , Taehyung Kim , Sooyong Choi , Juho Lee

Coded caching (CC) schemes exploit the cumulative cache memory of the users and simple linear coding to turn unicast traffic (individual file requests) into a multicast transmission. For the originally proposed $K$-user single-server/single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Kagan Akcay , MohammadJavad Salehi , Giuseppe Caire