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In the scenario where small cells are densely deployed, the millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless backhaul network has been widely used. However, mmWave is easily blocked by obstacles, and how to forward the data of the blocked flows is still a…
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This paper considers the following question for viable wide-area millimeter wave cellular networks. What is the maximum extended coverage area of a single fiber site using multi-hop relaying, while achieving a minimum target per user data…
We use information theoretic achievable rate formulas for the multi-relay channel to study the problem of optimal placement of relay nodes along the straight line joining a source node and a sink node. The achievable rate formulas that we…
We consider a heterogeneous network (HetNet) of base stations (BSs) connected via a backhaul network of routers and wired/wireless links with limited capacity. The optimal provision of such networks requires proper resource allocation…
In this paper, a novel framework is proposed for optimizing the operation and performance of a large-scale, multi-hop millimeter wave (mmW) backhaul within a wireless small cell network (SCN) that encompasses multiple mobile network…
Millimeter Wave (MmWave) communication is one of the key technology of the fifth generation (5G) wireless systems to achieve the expected 1000x data rate. With large bandwidth at mmWave band, the link capacity between users and base…
Millimeter wave (MmWave) has been regarded as a promising technology to support high-capacity communications in 5G era. However, its high-layer performance such as latency and packet drop rate in the long term highly depends on resource…
Wireless backhauling at millimeter-wave frequencies (mmWave) in static scenarios is a well-established practice in cellular networks. However, highly directional and adaptive beamforming in today's mmWave systems have opened new…
With the emergence of millimeter-Wave (mmWave) communication technology, the capacity of mobile backhaul networks can be significantly increased. On the other hand, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) provides an appropriate infrastructure to…
This paper studies the maximum throughput achievable with optimal scheduling in multi-hop mmWave picocellular networks with Multi-user Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) radios. MU-MIMO enables simultaneous transmission to multiple…
Cooperation between the nodes of wireless multihop networks can increase communication reliability, reduce energy consumption, and decrease latency. The possible improvements are even greater when nodes perform mutual information…
In this paper we consider random access wireless multi-hop mesh networks with multi-packet reception capabilities where multiple flows are forwarded to the gateways through node disjoint paths. We address the issue of aggregate…
We address the joint problem of learning and scheduling in multi-hop wireless network without a prior knowledge on link rates. Previous scheduling algorithms need the link rate information, and learning algorithms often require a…
Towards the development of 6G mobile networks, it is promising to integrate a large number of devices from multi-dimensional platforms, and it is crucial to have a solid understanding of the theoretical limits of large-scale networks. We…
In this paper, a new framework for optimizing the resource allocation in a millimeter-wave-non-orthogonal multiple access (mmWave-NOMA) communication for crowded venues is proposed. MmWave communications suffer from severe blockage caused…
Integrated access and backhaul (IAB) networks have the potential to provide high data rate in both access and backhaul networks by sharing the same spectrum. Due to the dense deployment of small base stations (SBSs), IAB networks connect…
Existing solutions to network scheduling typically assume that the instantaneous link rates are completely known before a scheduling decision is made or consider a bandit setting where the accurate link quality is discovered only after it…