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Previous studies have shown that the actual handoff schemes employed in the IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs (WLANs) do not meet the strict delay constraints placed by many multimedia applications like Voice over IP. Both the active and the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-02-28 Ahmed Riadh Rebai , Saïd Hanafi

In this paper, we propose joint sequencing and scheduling optimization for uplink machine-type communication (MTC). We consider multiple energy-constrained MTC devices that transmit data to a base station following the time division…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Sheeraz A. Alvi , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani , Duy T. Ngo

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

We study a wireless edge-computing system which allows multiple users to simultaneously offload computation-intensive tasks to multiple massive-MIMO access points, each with a collocated multi-access edge computing (MEC) server.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Rafia Malik , Mai Vu

Network coding is an effective idea to boost the capacity of wireless networks, and a variety of studies have explored its advantages in different scenarios. However, there is not much analytical study on throughput and end-to-end delay of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Somayeh Kafaie , Mohamed Hossam Ahmed , Yuanzhu Chen , Octavia A. Dobre

Achieving an end-to-end low-latency for computations offloading, in Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) systems, is still a critical design problem. This is because the offloading of computational tasks via the MEC servers entails the use of uplink…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Ali Al-Shuwaili , Ahmed Lawey

IEEE 802.11ax introduces orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) to WiFi to support concurrent transmissions to a larger number of users. As bandwidth continues to grow, WiFi channels exhibit increased frequency selectivity,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Xiang Zhang , Michail Palaiologos , Christian Bluemm , Giuseppe Caire

Recently, IEEE 802.11ax Task Group has adapted OFDMA as a new technique for enabling multi-user transmission. It has been also decided that the scheduling duration should be same for all the users in a multi-user OFDMA so that the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Mehmet Karaca , Saeed Bastani , Basuki Endah Priyanto , Mohammadhassan Safavi , Björn Landfeldt

From the initial 1997 specification to the undergoing IEEE 802.11ac standardization, a leap in throughput has been observed with every new generation. The expectations for next generations on issues like throughput, range, reliability, and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Getachew Redieteab

This paper presents a cross-layer approach for optimizing the delay performance of a multiuser diversity system with heterogeneous block-fading channels and a delay-sensitive bursty-traffic. We consider the downlink of a time-slotted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-02-10 Jalil Seifali Harsini , Farshad Lahouti

As wireless devices boom, and bandwidth-hungry applications (e.g., video and cloud uploading) get popular, today's Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) become not only crowded but also stressed at throughput. Multi-user Multiple-Input and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ruizhi Liao , Boris Bellalta , Miquel Oliver , Zhisheng Niu

Multi-user multi-input-multi-output (MU-MIMO) systems transmit data to multiple users simultaneously using the spatial degrees of freedom with user feedback channel state information (CSI). Most of the existing literatures on the reduced…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Junting Chen , Vincent K. N. Lau

IEEE 802.11 is a widely used wireless LAN standard which offers a good bandwidth at low cost In an ESS, multiple APs can co-exist with overlapping coverage area. A mobile node connects to the AP from which it receives the best signal.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-05-30 Abhijit Sarma , Shantanu Joshi , Sukumar Nandi

We analyze a MISO downlink channel where a multi-antenna transmitter communicates with a large number of single-antenna receivers. Using linear beamforming or nonlinear precoding techniques, the transmitter can serve multiple users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Sebastian Schiessl , James Gross , Giuseppe Caire

In multiuser MIMO (MU-MIMO) LANs, the achievable throughput of a client depends on who are transmitting concurrently with it. Existing MU-MIMO MAC protocols however enable clients to use the traditional 802.11 contention to contend for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Tung-Wei Kuo , Kuang-Che Lee , Kate Ching-Ju Lin , Ming-Jer Tsai

IEEE 802.11be (Wi-Fi 7) introduces Multi-Link Operation (MLO) as a While MLO offers significant parallelism and capacity, realizing its full potential in guaranteeing strict delay bounds and optimizing Quality of Service (QoS) for diverse,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Peini Yi , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang , Jinzhe Pan , Yuehui Ouyang , Wei Zhang

Multi-access point coordination (MAPC) is a key feature of IEEE 802.11bn, with a potential impact on future Wi-Fi networks. MAPC enables joint scheduling decisions across multiple access points (APs) to improve throughput, latency, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-28 David Nunez , Francesc Wilhelmi , Maksymilian Wojnar , Katarzyna Kosek-Szott , Szymon Szott , Boris Bellalta

The multi-link operation (MLO) is a key feature of the next IEEE 802.11be Extremely High Throughput amendment. Through its adoption, it is expected to enhance users' experience by improving throughput rates and latency. However, potential…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Álvaro López-Raventós , Boris Bellalta

The IEEE 802.11ad WiFi amendment enables short-range multi-gigabit communications in the unlicensed 60~GHz spectrum, unlocking new interesting applications such as wireless Augmented and Virtual Reality. The characteristics of the mmWave…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Salman Mohebi , Mattia Lecci , Andrea Zanella , Michele Zorzi

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