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This paper investigates the downlink channels in multi-cell multi-user interfering networks. The goal is to propose close-form designs to obtain degrees of freedom (DoF) in high SNR region for the network composed of base stations (BS) as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-20 Haichuan Zhou , Tharm Ratnarajah

Multi-cell cooperation is a promising approach for mitigating inter-cell interference in dense cellular networks. Quantifying the performance of multi-cell cooperation is challenging as it integrates physical-layer techniques and network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-23 Kaibin Huang , Jeffrey G. Andrews

This study proposes a novel stochastic geometry framework analyzing power control strategies in spatially correlated network topologies. Heterogeneous networks are studied, with users modeled via the superposition of homogeneous and Poisson…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-23 Martin Willame , Charles Wiame , Jérôme Louveaux , Claude Oestges , Luc Vandendorpe

Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) refers to a distributed Massive MIMO system where all the access points (APs) cooperate to coherently serve all the user equipments (UEs), suppress inter-cell interference and mitigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Giovanni Interdonato , Hien Quoc Ngo , Pål Frenger , Erik G. Larsson

This paper analyzes the ergodic capacity of a user-centric virtual cell (VC) dense network, where multiple access points (APs) form a VC for each user equipment (UE) and transmit data cooperatively over millimeter wave (mmWave) channels.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Jianfeng Shi , Yinlu Wang , Hao Xu , Ming Chen , Benoit Champagne

Device-to-device (D2D) communications in cellular networks are promising technologies for improving network throughput, spectrum efficiency, and transmission delay. In this paper, we first introduce the concept of guard distance to explore…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Minming Ni , Lei Zheng , Fei Tong , Jianping Pan , Lin Cai

In two-tier networks -- comprising a conventional cellular network overlaid with shorter range hotspots (e.g. femtocells, distributed antennas, or wired relays) -- with universal frequency reuse, the near-far effect from cross-tier…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vikram Chandrasekhar , Marios Kountouris , Jeffrey G. Andrews

We propose analytical models for the interference power distribution in a cellular system employing MIMO beamforming in rich and limited scattering environments, which capture non line-of-sight signal propagation in the microwave and mmWave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Hussain Elkotby , Mai Vu

In this paper, we consider a class of workspace partitioning problems that arise in the context of area coverage and spatial load balancing for spatially distributed heterogeneous multi-agent networks. It is assumed that each agent has…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Efstathios Bakolas

This paper studied the fundamental modeling defect existing in Poisson-distributed cellular networks in which all base stations form a homogeneous Poisson point process (PPP) of intensity $\lambda_B$ and all users form another independent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Chun-Hung Liu , Li-Chun Wang

In this paper, we present an interference model for cognitive radio (CR) networks employing power control, contention control or hybrid power/contention control schemes. For the first case, a power control scheme is proposed to govern the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zengmao Chen , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Xuemin Hong , John Thompson , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Xiaohu Ge , Hailin Xiao , Feng Zhao

This paper studies the degrees of freedom of full-duplex multicell networks that share the spectrum among multiple cells in a non-orthogonal setting. In the considered network, we assume that {\em full-duplex} base stations with multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Sung Ho Chae , Sang-Woon Jeon , Sung Hoon Lim

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) has emerged as an alternative deployment for conventional cellular massive MIMO networks. Prior works relied on the strong assumption (quite idealized) that the APs are uniformly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Marco Di Renzo , Symeon Chatzinotas , John M. Senior

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

Disordered hyperuniform many-particle systems are recently discovered exotic states of matter, characterized by a complete suppression of normalized infinite-wavelength density fluctuations and lack of conventional long-range order. Here,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-12 Eli Newby , Wenlong Shi , Yang Jiao , Reka Albert , Salvatore Torquato

An integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network architecture can enable flexible and fast deployment of next-generation cellular networks. However, mutual interference between access and backhaul links, small inter-site distance and spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-29 Abdurrahman Fouda , Ahmed S. Ibrahim , Ismail Guvenc , Monisha Ghosh

Despite coverage enhancement in rural areas is one of the main requirements in next generations of wireless networks (i.e., 5G and 6G), the low expected profit prevents telecommunication providers from investing in such sparsely populated…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Maurilio Matracia , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a transmission technique for cellular systems that uses many antennas to support not-as-many users. Thus far, the performance of massive MIMO has only been examined in finite cellular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-13 Tianyang Bai , Robert W. Heath,

In this paper, we study physical layer security for the downlink of cellular networks, where the confidential messages transmitted to each mobile user can be eavesdropped by both (i) the other users in the same cell and (ii) the users in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Giovanni Geraci , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Jinhong Yuan , Iain B. Collings

In cellular networks, base stations broadcast configurations that devices use for the random access procedure, which is a vital part of the connection setup. Ideally, the network should choose configurations based on the deployment scenario…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Joris Belder , Anup Bhattacharjee , Fernando Kuipers