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Heterogeneous Vehicular NETworks (HetVNETs) can meet various quality-of-service (QoS) requirements for intelligent transport system (ITS) services by integrating different access networks coherently. However, the current network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-10-23 Kan Zheng , Lu Hou , Hanlin Meng , Qiang Zheng , Ning Lu , Lei Lei

With the rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the next generation mobile networks demand for more operating frequency bands. By leveraging the underutilized radio spectrum, the cognitive radio (CR) technology is considered as a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Ali Shahini , Abbas Kiani , Nirwan Ansari

Heterogeneous ultra-dense networks enable ultra-high data rates and ultra-low latency through the use of dense sub-6 GHz and millimeter wave (mmWave) small cells with different antenna configurations. Existing work has widely studied…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Lifeng Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Shi Jin , Gan Zheng , Robert W. Heath

A heterogeneous system, where small networks (e.g., small cell or WiFi) boost the system throughput under the umbrella of a large network (e.g., large cell), is a promising architecture for the 5G wireless communication networks, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Hang Li , Chuan Huang , Fuad Alsaadi , Abdullah M. Dobaie , Shuguang Cui

The transition to 6G is expected to bring significant advancements, including much higher data rates, enhanced reliability and ultra-low latency compared to previous generations. Although 6G is anticipated to be 100 times more energy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Hamed Ahmadi , Mostafa Rahmani , Swarna Bindu Chetty , Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou , Huseyin Arslan , Merouane Debbah , Tony Quek

Energy cost of cellular networks is ever-increasing to match the surge of wireless data traffic, and the saving of this cost is important to reduce the operational expenditure (OPEX) of wireless operators in future. The recent advancements…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Jie Xu , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

In 5G networks, the number of connected devices, data rate and data volume per area, as well as the variety of QoS requirements, will attain unprecedented scales. The achievement of these goals will rely on new technologies and disruptive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Malek Naoues , Quentin Bodinier , Jacques Palicot

This paper investigates the energy efficiency (EE) and spectral efficiency (SE) trade-off in uplink distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (D-mMIMO) systems. Unlike conventional approaches where power consumption focuses…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mohd Saif Ali Khan , Karthik RM , Samar Agnihotri

Due to the uncontrolled and complex real-life radio propagation environments, Claude Shannon's information theory of communications describes fundamental limits to state-of-the-art 5G radio access network (RAN) capacity, with respect to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Yangyishi Zhang , Khethiwe Mhlope , Aaron Walker , Fraser Burton

As a core performance metric for green communications, the conventional energy efficiency definition has successfully resolved many issues in the energy efficient wireless network design. In the past several generations of wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Tao Yu , Shunqing Zhang , Xiaojing Chen , Xin Wang

In this paper, we provide joint subcarrier assignment and power allocation schemes for quality-of-service (QoS)-constrained energy-efficiency (EE) optimization in the downlink of an orthogonal frequency division multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Jie Tang , Daniel K. C. So , Emad Alsusa , Khairi Ashour Hamdi , Arman Shojaeifard , Kai-Kit Wong

As wireless connectivity continues to evolve towards 6G, there is an ever-increasing demand to not only deliver higher throughput, lower latency, and improved reliability, but also do so as efficiently as possible. To this point, the term…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Joseph Boccuzzi

The transition to disaggregated and interoperable Open Radio Access Network (RAN) architectures and the introduction of RAN Intelligent Controllers (RICs) in O-RAN creates new resource optimization opportunities and fine-grained tuning and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Ravis Shirkhani , Stefano Maxenti , Leonardo Bonati , Niloofar Mohamadi , Maxime Elkael , Umair Hashmi , Jeebak Mitra , Michele Polese , Tommaso Melodia , Salvatore D'Oro

Cloud-Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is a promising network architecture to reduce energy consumption and the increasing number of base station deployment costs in mobile networks. However, the necessity of enormous fronthaul bandwidth…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Turgay Pamuklu , Cicek Cavdar , Cem Ersoy

In the near future FPGAs will be available by the hour, however this new Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) usage mode presents both an opportunity and a challenge: The opportunity is that programmers can potentially trade resources for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Gordon Inggs , David B. Thomas , George Constantinides , Wayne Luk

Wireless access technologies have been extensively developed aiming to give users the ability to connect to their expected networks anytime, anywhere. This leads to an increment of the number of wireless interfaces integrated into a single…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Toan Nguyen-Duc , Eiji Kamioka

The radio access networks (RANs) need to support massive and diverse data traffic with limited spectrum and energy. To cope with this challenge, software-defined radio access network (SDRAN) architectures have been proposed to renovate the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Tao Zhao , Liumeng Wang , Xi Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

Energy efficiency of fixed-rate transmissions is studied in the presence of queueing constraints and channel uncertainty. It is assumed that neither the transmitter nor the receiver has channel side information prior to transmission. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-21 Deli Qiao , Mustafa Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar

The forthcoming sixth-generation (6G) mobile network is set to merge edge artificial intelligence (AI) and integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) extensively, giving rise to the new paradigm of edge intelligent sensing (EI-Sense). This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Qunsong Zeng , Jianhao Huang , Zhanwei Wang , Kaibin Huang , Kin K. Leung

Optimizing computation in an edge-cloud system is an important yet challenging problem. In this paper, we consider a three-way trade-off between bit rate, classification accuracy, and encoding complexity in an edge-cloud image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Zhihao Duan , Fengqing Zhu