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One promising approach to address the supply-demand mismatch between the terrestrial infrastructure and the temporary and/or unexpected traffic demands is to leverage the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies. Motivated by the recent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Yanjie Dong , Md. Zoheb Hassan , Julian Cheng , Md. Jahangir Hossain , Victor C. M. Leung

We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) network, where unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with multiple antennas serve as distributed UAV-access points (UAV-APs). These UAV-APs provide seamless coverage…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-10 Neetu R. R , Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar , Gourab Ghatak , Vivek Ashok Bohara

An exponential increase in the data rate demand prompted several technical innovations. Multi User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) is one of the most promising schemes. This has been evolved into Massive MIMO technology in 5G to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Md. Asif Ishrak Sarder , Fehima Tajrian , Moontasir Rafique , Mariea Anzum , Abdullah Bin Shams

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) network and its user-centric (UC) version are considered as promising techniques for the next generations of wireless networks. However, fronthaul and backhaul assignments are challenging issues in these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Pouya Agheli , Mohammad Javad Emadi , Hamzeh Beyranvand

Traditional ultra-dense wireless networks are recommended as a complement for cellular networks and are deployed in partial areas, such as hotspot and indoor scenarios. Based on the massive multiple-input multi-output (MIMO) antennas and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-12-11 Xiaohu Ge , Song Tu , Guoqiang Mao , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Tao Han

Sixth generation (6G) wireless networks are envisioned to include aspects of energy footprint reduction (sustainability), besides those of network capacity and connectivity, at the design stage. This paradigm change requires radically new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Juan Carlos Ruiz-Sicilia , Marco Di Renzo , Placido Mursia , Aryan Kaushik , Vincenzo Sciancalepore

Integrated access and backhaul (IAB) is one of the promising techniques for 5G networks and beyond (6G), in which the same node/hardware is used to provide both backhaul and cellular services in a multi-hop fashion. Due to the sensitivity…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Charitha Madapatha , Behrooz Makki , Hao Guo , Tommy Svensson

Limited-backhaul cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), in which the fog radio access network (F-RAN) is implemented to exchange the information between access points (APs) and the central processing unit (CPU), is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Manijeh Bashar , Hien Quoc Ngo , Alister G. Burr , Dick Maryopi , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Erik G. Larsson

Holographic multiple-input multiple-output (HMIMO) communication systems utilize spatially-constrained massive MIMO arrays containing large numbers of antennas with sub-wavelength spacing, and have emerged as a promising candidate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Sarah Bahanshal , Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Md. Jahangir Hossain

We propose a cost-optimal antenna vs. spectrum resource allocation strategy for mobile 5G MD-MIMO over Next-Generation PONs. Comparing wavelength overlay and shared wavelength approaches, split-PHY leads to solutions with higher mobile…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Irene Macaluso , Bruno Cornaglia , Marco Ruffini

With the introduction of new technologies such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS), Millimeter Wave (mmWave) frequencies, Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (mMIMO), and beamforming, wireless backhaul…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Berke Tezergil , Ertan Onur

In this paper, we study the deployment decisions and location optimization for the remote radio heads (RRHs) in coordinated distributed networks in the presence of a wireless backhaul. We implement a scheme where the RRHs use zero-forcing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Hussein A. Ammar , Raviraj Adve , Shahram Shahbazpanahi , Gary Boudreau

Hybrid beamforming is known to be a cost-effective and wide-spread solution for a system with large-scale antenna arrays. This work studies the optimization of the analog and digital components of the hybrid beamforming solution for remote…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Jaein Kim , Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Inkyu Lee , Shlomo Shamai

Future mobile traffic growth will require 5G cellular networks to densify the deployment of small cell base stations (BS). As it is not feasible to form a backhaul (BH) by wiring all BSs to the core network, directional mmWave links can be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Ricardo Santos , Nina Skorin-Kapov , Hakim Ghazzai , Andreas Kassler

Massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) transmission is a promising technology to improve the capacity and reliability of wireless systems. However, the number of antennas that can be equipped at a base station (BS) is limited by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Abla Kammoun , Mérouane Debbah , and Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Transmit signal and bandwidth optimization is considered in multiple-antenna relay channels. Assuming all terminals have channel state information, the cut-set capacity upper bound and decode-and-forward rate under full-duplex relaying are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-30 Chris T. K. Ng , Gerard J. Foschini

This paper explores the application of uplink fronthaul compression techniques within Open RAN (O-RAN) to mitigate fronthaul load in decentralized distributed MIMO (DD-MIMO) systems. With the ever-increasing demand for high data rates and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Mostafa Rahmani , Junbo Zhao , Vida Ranjbar , Ahmed Al-Tahmeesschi , Hamed Ahmadi , Sofie Pollin , Alister G. Burr

We consider a distributed multiple-input multiple-output (D-MIMO) testbed in which, to enable coherent-phase transmission without over-the-air synchronization, the remote radio heads (RRHs) are connected to a central unit via a 1-bit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Lise Aabel , Giuseppe Durisi , Frida Olofsson , Erik Börjeson , Mikael Coldrey , Christian Fager

The massive amounts of bandwidth available at millimeter-wave frequencies (roughly above 10 GHz) have the potential to greatly increase the capacity of fifth generation cellular wireless systems. However, to overcome the high isotropic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Marco Giordani , Marco Mezzavilla , Michele Zorzi

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