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We study a target coverage problem in which a team of sensing agents, operating under limited communication, must collaboratively monitor targets that may be adaptively repositioned by an attacker. We model this interaction as a zero-sum…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Jayanth Bhargav , Zirui Xu , Vasileios Tzoumas , Mahsa Ghasemi , Shreyas Sundaram

The deployment of underlay small base stations (SBSs) is expected to significantly boost the spectrum efficiency and the coverage of next-generation cellular networks. However, the coexistence of SBSs underlaid to an existing macro-cellular…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-14 Francesco Pantisano , Mehdi Bennis , Walid Saad , Merouane Debbah , Matti Latva-aho

Heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets) are to be deployed for future wireless communication to meet the ever-increasing mobile traffic demand. However, the dense and random deployment of small cells and their uncoordinated operation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Weili Nie , Fuchun Zheng , Xiaoming Wang , Shi Jin , Wenyi Zhang

We consider a heterogeneous cellular network (HetNet) where a macrocell tier with a large antenna array base station (BS) is overlaid with a dense tier of small cells (SCs). We investigate the potential benefits of incorporating a massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Marios Kountouris , Nikolaos Pappas

How would a cellular network designed for maximal energy efficiency look like? To answer this fundamental question, tools from stochastic geometry are used in this paper to model future cellular networks and obtain a new lower bound on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti , Marios Kountouris

In this paper, energy efficient power control for small cells underlaying a macro cellular network is investigated. We formulate the power control problem in self-organizing small cell networks as a non-cooperative game, and propose a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Yanxiang Jiang , Ningning Lu , Yan Chen , Mehdi Bennis , Fuchun Zheng , Xiqi Gao , Xiaohu You

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

This paper studies the distributed generalized Nash equilibrium seeking problem for aggregative games with coupling constraints, where each player optimizes its strategy depending on its local cost function and the estimated strategy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Wenqing Zhao , Antai Xie , Yuchi Wu , Xinlei Yi , Xiaoqiang Ren

We formulate the resource allocation problem for the uplink of code division multiple access (CDMA) networks using a game theoretic framework, propose an efficient and distributed algorithm for a joint rate and power allocation, and show…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-28 Mohammad R. Javan , Ahmad R. Sharafat

Next-generation wireless networks are evolving towards architectures that integrate terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks (NTN), unitedly known as vertical heterogeneous networks (vHetNets). This integration is vital to address the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Afsoon Alidadi Shamsabadi , Animesh Yadav , Halim Yanikomeroglu

In this contribution, we consider a two-tiered network and focus on the coexistence between the two tiers at physical layer. We target our efforts on a long term evolution advanced (LTE-A) orthogonal frequency division multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-21 Marco Maso , Merouane Debbah , Lorenzo Vangelista

In this paper, we propose a novel class of Nash problems for Cognitive Radio (CR) networks, modeled as Gaussian frequency-selective interference channels, wherein each secondary user (SU) competes against the others to maximize his own…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Gesualdo Scutari , Jong-Shi Pang

With the proliferation of mobile phone users, interference management is a big concern in this neoteric years. To cope with this problem along with ensuring better Quality of Service (QoS), femtocell plays an imperious preamble in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-08 A. S. M. Zadid Shifat , Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury , Yeong Min Jang

A fundamental problem in the design of wireless networks is to efficiently schedule transmission in a distributed manner. The main challenge stems from the fact that optimal link scheduling involves solving a maximum weighted independent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Zhongyuan Zhao , Gunjan Verma , Chirag Rao , Ananthram Swami , Santiago Segarra

We develop a framework for downlink heterogeneous cellular networks with line-of-sight (LoS) and non-line-of-sight (NLoS) transmissions. Using stochastic geometry, we derive tight approximation of achievable downlink rate that enables us to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Qi Zhang , Howard H. Yang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Jemin Lee

We consider a distributed stochastic optimization problem in networks with finite number of nodes. Each node adjusts its action to optimize the global utility of the network, which is defined as the sum of local utilities of all nodes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Wenjie Li , Mohamad Assaad

Motivated by the complex dynamics of cooperative and competitive interactions within networked agent systems, multi-cluster games provide a framework for modeling the interconnected goals of self-interested clusters of agents. For this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Mattia Bianchi , Florian Dörfler , Duong Tung Nguyen , Angelia Nedić

Network MIMO is considered to be a key solution for the next generation wireless systems in breaking the interference bottleneck in cellular systems. In the MIMO systems, open-loop transmission scheme is used to support mobile stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-20 Hao Yu , Shunqing Zhang , Vincent K. N. Lau

Network management is a fundamental ingredient for efficient operation of wireless networks. With increasing bandwidth, number of antennas and number of users, the amount of information required for network management increases…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Wenbo Wang , Amir Leshem

Consider the problem of joint uplink scheduling and power allocation. Being inherent to almost any wireless system, this resource allocation problem has received extensive attention. Yet, most common techniques either adopt classical power…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Erez Biton , Asaf Cohen , Guy Reina , Omer Gurewitz