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Short-packet communication (SPC) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are anticipated to play crucial roles in the development of 5G-and-beyond wireless networks and the Internet of Things (IoT). In this paper, we propose a secure SPC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Milad Tatar Mamaghani , Xiangyun Zhou , Nan Yang , A. Lee Swindlehurst

The minimization of transmission completion time for a given number of bits per user in an energy harvesting communication system, where energy harvesting instants are known in an offline manner is considered. An achievable rate region with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-28 Mehmet Akif Antepli , Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu , Hakan Erkal

We consider the problem of designing risk-sensitive optimal control policies for scheduling packet transmissions in a stochastic wireless network. A single client is connected to an access point (AP) through a wireless channel. Packet…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Rahul Singh , Xueying Guo , Eytan Modiano

Early-bird communication is a communication/computation overlap technique that combines fine-grained communication with partitioned communication to improve application run-time. Communication is divided among the compute threads such that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-24 W. Pepper Marts , Matthew G. F. Dosanjh , Whit Schonbein , Scott Levy , Patrick G. Bridges

In this work, we study how to design uplink transmission with massive machine type devices in tactile internet, where ultra-short delay and ultra-high reliability are required. To characterize the transmission reliability constraint, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Changyang She , Chenyang Yang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a vital role in monitoring and data collection in wide area environments with harsh conditions. In most scenarios, issues such as real-time data retrieval and real-time UAV positioning are often…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Ming He , Peizhao Wang , Haihua Chen , Bin Sun , Hongpeng Wang

Maximizing data uploading efficiency in a vehicular-to-road data uploading system using millimeter-wave communication is a challenging issue, as the wireless zone is often critically narrow, and vehicles can easily fail to pass through it…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Phuc Duc Nguyen , Kazuhiro Maruyama , Keitarou Kondou , Yozo Shoji

In this paper, a network comprising wireless devices equipped with buffers transmitting deadline-constrained data packets over a slotted-ALOHA random-access channel is studied. Although communication protocols facilitating retransmissions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Nikolaos Nomikos , Themistoklis Charalambous , Yvonne-Anne Pignolet , Nikolaos Pappas

It is well known that orthogonal coding can be used to approach the Shannon capacity of the power-constrained AWGN channel without a bandwidth constraint. This correspondence describes a semi-orthogonal variation of pulse position…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Anant Sahai

For OFDMA systems, we find a rough but easily computed upper bound for the probability of loosing communications by insufficient number of sub-channels on downlink. We consider as random the positions of receiving users in the system as…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-07-25 Laurent Decreusefond , Eduardo Ferraz , Philippe Martins

This letter shows that optimizing the transmit powers along with optimally designed nonorthogonal pilots can significantly reduce pilot contamination and improve the overall throughput of the uplink multi-cell massive multiple-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Xihan Chen , Kaiming Shen , Hei Victor Cheng , An Liu , Wei Yu , Min-Jian Zhao

Machine-type communication requires rethinking of the structure of short packets due to the coding limitations and the significant role of the control information. In ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC), it is crucial to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Alexandru-Sabin Bana , Kasper Fløe Trillingsgaard , Petar Popovski , Elisabeth de Carvalho

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation has been proposed recently as a new waveform in the context of doubly-selective multi-path channels. This article proposes a novel pilot design that improves OTFS spectral efficiency (SE)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Davide Bergamasco , Federico Clazzer , Andrea Munari , Paolo Casari

This paper investigates the problem of energy-efficient packet transmission with a non-FIFO Packet over a point-to-point additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) time-invariant channel under the feasibility constraints. More specifically, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Qing Zhou , Nan Liu

Optimized data transfer services are highly demanded nowadays, due to the large amounts of data which are frequently being produced and accessed. In this paper we consider several data transfer service optimization problems (optimal server…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-08-25 Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Ion Pargaru , Florin Ionescu , Cristina Teodora Andreica

In this paper, the bit energy requirements of training-based transmission over block Rayleigh fading channels are studied. Pilot signals are employed to obtain the minimum mean-square-error (MMSE) estimate of the channel fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mustafa Cenk Gursoy

We propose a strategy for orthogonal downlink pilot assignment in cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) that exploits knowledge of the channel state information, the channel hardening degree at each user, and the mobility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Giovanni Interdonato , Pål Frenger , Erik G. Larsson

Pilot contamination remains a major bottleneck in realizing the full potential of distributed massive MIMO systems. We propose two dynamic and scalable pilot assignment schemes designed for practical deployment in such networks. First, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Mohd Saif Ali Khan , Karthik RM , Samar Agnihotri

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industrial 4.0) is coming, and this revolution will fundamentally enhance the way the factories manufacture products. The conventional wired lines connecting central controller to robots or actuators will…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-01 Hong Ren , Cunhua Pan , Yansha Deng , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan

This paper considers an energy-efficient packet scheduling problem over quasi-static block fading channels. The goal is to minimize the total energy for transmitting a sequence of data packets under the first-in-first-out rule and strict…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Shengfeng Xu , Tsung-Hui Chang , Shih-Chun Lin , Chao Shen , Gang Zhu