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As network deployments become denser, interference arises as a dominant performance degradation factor. To confront with this trend, Long Term Evolution (LTE) incorporated features aiming at enabling cooperation among different base…
Coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission has been widely recognized as a spectrally efficient technique in future cellular systems. To exploit the abundant patial resources provided by the cooperating base stations, however, considerable…
Multi-cell wireless systems usually suffer both intra-cell and inter-cell interference, which can be mitigated via coordinated multipoint (CoMP) techniques. Previous works on multi-cell analysis for the microwave band generally consider…
Multi-tier cellular networks are considered as an effective solution to enhance the coverage and data rate offered by cellular systems. In a multi-tier network, high power base stations (BSs) such as macro BSs are overlaid by lower power…
The 5G wireless network architecture will bring dense deployments of base stations called {\em small cells} for both outdoors and indoors traffic. The feasibility of their dense deployments depends on the existence of a high data-rate…
Coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission is a cooperating technique among base stations (BSs) in a cellular network, with outstanding capability at inter-cell interference (ICI) mitigation. ICI is a dominant source of error, and has…
A simple feedback control algorithm is presented for distributed beamforming in a wireless network. A network of wireless sensors that seek to cooperatively transmit a common message signal to a Base Station (BS) is considered. In this…
To satisfy the requirement of the fifth generation (5G) mobile communications that offers an ultra high data rate of 100Mbps to 1Gbps anytime and anywhere, the coordinated multipoint (CoMP) technique is proposed to mitigate inter-cell…
Obtaining accurate global channel state information (CSI) at multiple transmitter devices is critical to the performance of many coordinated transmission schemes. Practical CSI local feedback often leads to noisy and partial CSI estimates…
Coordinated multipoint (CoMP) communications are considered for the fifth-generation (5G) small-cell networks as a tool to improve the high data rates and the cell-edge throughput. The average achievable rates of the small-cell base…
Multi-tier networks with large-array base stations (BSs) that are able to operate in the "massive MIMO" regime are envisioned to play a key role in meeting the exploding wireless traffic demands. Operated over small cells with…
The cooperative transmission is an effective approach for vehicular communications to improve the wireless transmission capacity and reliability in the fifth generation (5G) small cell networks. Based on distances between the vehicle and…
Most works on cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) consider non-cooperative precoding strategies at the base stations (BSs) to avoid extensive channel state information (CSI) exchange via backhaul signaling. However,…
Coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission is an effective means of improving network throughput in heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets). However, its performance is seriously weakened if imperfect coordination happens between base…
Beamforming and precoding/combining are techniques aimed at processing multiantenna signals at the transmitter and/or at the receiver of a wireless communication system. While they have been routinely used to improve performance in current…
Cooperating radios can extend their communication range by adjusting their signals to ensure coherent combining at a destination radio. This technique is called distributed transmit beamforming. Beamforming (BF) relies on the BF radios…
Coordinated multipoint (CoMP) systems incur substantial resource consumption due to the management of backhaul links and the coordination among various base stations (BSs). Accurate prediction of coordinated spectral efficiency (CSE) can…
Modern cellular networks in traditional frequency bands are notoriously interference-limited especially in urban areas, where base stations are deployed in close proximity to one another. The latest releases of Long Term Evolution (LTE)…
The main challenges in designing downlink coordinated multicast beamforming in massive multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) cellular networks are the complex computational solutions and significant fronthaul overhead for centralized…
Distributed transmit beamforming is a technique that adjusts the signals from cooperating radios to combine coherently at a destination radio. To achieve coherent combining, the radios can exchange preambles with the destination for…