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Unlike wired networks, the capacity of a wireless network is interference limited due to the broadcast nature of wireless medium. Some multicast wireless network protocols do not consider channel assignment issue, that they cause…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-10-12 Abbas Nargesi , Mehdi Ghasemi

For future networks (i.e., the fifth generation (5G) wireless networks and beyond), millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication with large available unlicensed spectrum is a promising technology that enables gigabit multimedia applications.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Qing Xue , Xuming Fang , Cheng-Xiang Wang

This article addresses the design of multigroup multicast communications in the pinching-antenna system (PASS). A PASS-enabled multigroup transmission framework is proposed to maximize multicast rates under a couple of transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Shan Shan , Chongjun Ouyang , Yong Li , Yuanwei Liu

Due to the exponential increase in wireless devices and a diversification of network services, unprecedented challenges, such as managing heterogeneous data traffic and massive access demands, have arisen in next-generation wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zhizhen Li , Xuanhao Luo , Mingzhe Chen , Chenhan Xu , Shiwen Mao , Yuchen Liu

We study joint unicast and multigroup multicast transmission in single-cell massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems, under maximum ratio transmission. For the unicast transmission, the objective is to maximize the weighted sum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Meysam Sadeghi , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson , Chau Yuen , Thomas L. Marzetta

Multi-channel multi-interface Wireless Mesh Networks permit to spread the load across orthogonal channels to improve network capacity. Although broadcast is vital for many layer-3 protocols, proposals for taking advantage of multiple…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-05-16 Carina Teixeira De Oliveira , Fabrice Theoleyre , Andrzej Duda

The millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies offer the potential of orders of magnitude increases in capacity for next-generation cellular wireless systems. However, links in mmWave networks are highly susceptible to blocking and may suffer…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Marco Giordani , Marco Mezzavilla , Sundeep Rangan , Michele Zorzi

Communication at millimeter wave (mmWave) bands is expected to become a key ingredient of next generation (5G) wireless networks. Effective mmWave communications require fast and reliable methods for beamforming at both the User Equipment…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Xiaoshen Song , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

Multicast device-to-device (D2D) transmission is important for applications like local file transfer in commercial networks and is also a required feature in public safety networks. In this paper we propose a tractable baseline multicast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Xingqin Lin , Rapeepat Ratasuk , Amitava Ghosh , Jeffrey G. Andrews

For high-speed train (HST) millimeter wave (mmWave) communications, the use of narrow beams with small beam coverage needs frequent beam switching, while wider beams with small beam gain leads to weaker mmWave signal strength. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Jingjia Huang , Chenhao Qi , Octavia A. Dobre , Geoffrey Ye Li

In this paper, we investigate high-altitude platform station (HAPS) wireless networks for simultaneous non-orthogonal unicast and multicast transmissions. Specifically, stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM)-based wave-domain beamforming is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Ngoc Phuc Le , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We study the joint unicast and multi-group multicast transmission in massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We consider a system model that accounts for channel estimation and pilot contamination, and derive achievable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Meysam Sadeghi , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson , Chau Yuen , Thomas L. Marzetta

In this paper, we consider a joint unicast and multi-group multicast cell-free distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, while accounting for co-pilot assignment strategy based channel estimation, pilot contamination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Jiamin Li , Qijun Pan , Zhenggang Wu , Pengcheng Zhu , Dongming Wang , Xiaohu You

Link adaptation is the terminology used to describe techniques that improve multicarrier communication systems performance by dynamically adapting the transmission parameters, i.e., transmit power and number of bits per subcarrier, to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Ebrahim Bedeer

A practical and scalable multicast beamformer design in multi-input multi-output~(MIMO) coded caching~(CC) systems is introduced in this paper. The proposed approach allows multicast transmission to multiple groups with partially…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Mohammad NaseriTehrani , MohammadJavad Salehi , Antti Tölli

Relaying techniques for millimeter-wave wireless networks represent a powerful solution for improving the transmission performance. In this work, we quantify the benefits in terms of delay and throughput for a random-access multi-user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Cristian Tatino , Nikolaos Pappas , Ilaria Malanchini , Lutz Ewe , Di Yuan

Millimeter wave (mmWave) signals experience orders-of-magnitude more pathloss than the microwave signals currently used in most wireless applications. MmWave systems must therefore leverage large antenna arrays, made possible by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Omar El Ayach , Sridhar Rajagopal , Shadi Abu-Surra , Zhouyue Pi , Robert W. Heath

Multiple antennas have been exploited for spatial multiplexing and diversity transmission in a wide range of communication applications. However, most of the advances in the design of high speed wireless multiple-input multiple output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Yongpeng Wu , Chengshan Xiao , Zhi Ding , Xiqi Gao , Shi Jin

This paper considers a multi-antenna multicast system with programmable metasurface (PMS) based transmitter. Taking into account of the finite-resolution phase shifts of PMSs, a novel beam training approach is proposed, which achieves…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Xiaoling Hu , Caijun Zhong , Yongxu Zhu , Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang

Multicast data transfers occur in many distributed systems and applications (e.g. IPTV, Grids, content delivery networks). Because of this, efficient multicast data distribution optimization techniques are required. In the first part of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-06-03 Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Eliana-Dina Tirsa , Nicolae Tapus