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Considering a heterogeneous network (HetNet) where both macro base station (BS) and small cell (SC) nodes are equipped with massive antennas, this paper studies the performance for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlinks when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Yongyu Dai , Xiaodai Dong , Hai Lin

We consider a heterogeneous cellular network (HetNet) where a macrocell tier with a large antenna array base station (BS) is overlaid with a dense tier of small cells (SCs). We investigate the potential benefits of incorporating a massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Marios Kountouris , Nikolaos Pappas

This paper focuses on wireless powered 5G dense cellular networks, where base station (BS) delivers energy to user equipment (UE) via the microwave radiation in sub-6 GHz or millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency, and UE uses the harvested…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Lifeng Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Robert W. Heath , Jinhong Yuan

Traditional macro-cell networks are experiencing an upsurge of data traffic, and small-cells are deployed to help offload the traffic from macro-cells. Given the massive deployment of small-cells in a macro-cell, the aggregate power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Shijie Cai , Yueling Che , Lingjie Duan , Jing Wang , Shidong Zhou , Rui Zhang

Heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs) with millimeter wave (mm-wave) communications are considered as a promising technology for the fifth generation mobile networks. Mm-wave has the potential to provide multiple gigabit data rate due to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Yali Chen , Bo Ai , Yong Niu , Ruisi He , Zhangdui Zhong , Zhu Han

Future dense small-cell networks are one key 5G candidates to offer outdoor high access data rates, especially in millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency bands. At those frequencies, the free space propagation loss and shadowing (from buildings,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Yoann Corre , Romain Charbonnier , Mohammed Zahid Aslam , Yves Lostanlen

The need for efficient use of network resources is continuously increasing with the grow of traffic demand, however, current mobile systems have been planned and deployed so far with the mere aim of enhancing radio coverage and capacity.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-31 Mustafa Emara , Miltiades C. Filippou , Dario Sabella

Meta distribution is a fine-grained unified performance metric that enables us to evaluate the {reliability and latency} of next generation wireless networks, in addition to the conventional coverage probability. In this paper, using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Hazem Ibrahim , Hina Tabassum , Uyen T. Nguyen

Millimeter wave (mmWave) holds promise as a carrier frequency for fifth generation cellular networks. Because mmWave signals are sensitive to blockage, prior models for cellular networks operated in the ultra high frequency (UHF) band do…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Tianyang Bai , Robert W. Heath

We develop a general downlink model for multi-antenna heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets), where base stations (BSs) across tiers may differ in terms of transmit power, target signal-to-interference-ratio (SIR), deployment density,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Harpreet S. Dhillon , Marios Kountouris , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Maintaining multiple wireless connections is a promising solution to boost capacity in fifth-generation (5G) networks, where user equipment is able to consume radio resources of several serving cells simultaneously and potentially aggregate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Maria A. Lema , Enric Pardo , Olga Galinina , Sergey Andreev , Mischa Dohler

Load balancing by proactively offloading users onto small and otherwise lightly-loaded cells is critical for tapping the potential of dense heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs). Offloading has mostly been studied for the downlink, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-25 Sarabjot Singh , Xinchen Zhang , Jeffrey G. Andrews

We consider the downlink of a two-layer heterogeneous network, comprising macro cells (MCs) and small cells (SCs). The existing literature generally assumes independent placements of the access points (APs) in different layers; in contrast,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 S. Alireza Banani , Andrew W. Eckford , Raviraj S. Adve

The evolution of mobile cellular networks has brought great changes of network architecture. For example, heterogeneous cellular network (HetNet) and Ultra dense network (UDN) have been proposed as promising techniques for 5G systems. Dense…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Lan Zhang , Feng Gang , Qin Shuang

Uplink/downlink (UL/DL) decoupling promises more flexible cell association and higher throughput in heterogeneous networks (HetNets), however, it hampers the acquisition of DL channel state information (CSI) in time-division-duplex (TDD)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Wen Liu , Kai-Kit Wong , Shi Jin , Xiaohu You

Considering a heterogeneous network (HetNet) system consisting of a macro tier overlaid with a second tier of small cells (SCs), this paper studies the mean square error (MSE) based precoding design to be employed by the macro base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Yongyu Dai , Xiaodai Dong , Wu-Sheng Lu

With the explosive growth of mobile data demand, there has been an increasing interest in deploying small cells of higher frequency bands underlying the conventional homogeneous macrocell network, which is usually referred to as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yong Niu , Chuhan Gao , Yong Li , Li Su , Depeng Jin , Athanasios V. Vasilakos

A K-tier heterogeneous downlink millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular network with user-centric small cell deployments is studied in this paper. In particular, we consider a heterogeneous network model with user equipments (UEs) being…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Xueyuan Wang , Esma Turgut , M. Cenk Gursoy

Heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets) are to be deployed for future wireless communication to meet the ever-increasing mobile traffic demand. However, the dense and random deployment of small cells and their uncoordinated operation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Weili Nie , Fuchun Zheng , Xiaoming Wang , Shi Jin , Wenyi Zhang

The millimeter wave (mmWave) bands are likely to play a significant role in next generation cellular systems due to the possibility of very high throughput thanks to the availability of massive bandwidth and high-dimensional antennas.…