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This paper considers maximizing the network-wide minimum supported rate in the downlink of a two-cell system, where each base station (BS) is endowed with multiple antennas. This is done for different levels of cell cooperation. At one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-14 Randa Zakhour , Stephen V. Hanly

Cellular networks are in a major transition from a carefully planned set of large tower-mounted base-stations (BSs) to an irregular deployment of heterogeneous infrastructure elements that often additionally includes micro, pico, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Harpreet S. Dhillon , Radha Krishna Ganti , Francois Baccelli , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Under the conditions where performance in a massive MIMO network is limited by pilot contamination, the reverse link signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) exhibits different distributions when using different pilot allocation schemes. By…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Anand Sivamalai , Jamie S. Evans

In heterogeneous networks (HetNets), strong interference due to spectrum reuse affects each user's signal-to-interference ratio (SIR), and hence is one limiting factor of network performance. In this paper, we propose a user-centric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Ying Cui , Yueping Wu , Dongdong Jiang , Bruno Clerckx

This paper characterizes the meta distribution of the downlink signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) attained at a typical Internet-of-Things (IoT) device in a dual-hop IoT network. The IoT device associates with either a serving macro base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-31 Hazem Ibrahim , Hina Tabassum , Uyen T. Nguyen

In this paper we develop a tractable framework for SINR analysis in downlink heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs) with flexible cell association policies. The HCN is modeled as a multi-tier cellular network where each tier's base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Han-Shin Jo , Young Jin Sang , Ping Xia , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Real-time distributed control is a promising application of 5G in which communication links should satisfy certain reliability guarantees. In this letter, we derive closed-form maximum average rate when a device (e.g. industrial machine)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Jihong Park , Petar Popovski

In this paper, we provide a closed-form approximation of the Full-duplex Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) system signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR) distribution for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Hadi Saki , M. Shikh Bahae

In this paper, we investigate downlink power control in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks with distributed antenna arrays. The base station (BS) in each cell consists of multiple antenna arrays, which are deployed in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Noman Akbar , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson , Nan Yang

Base station (BS) sleeping has emerged as a viable solution to enhance the overall network energy efficiency by inactivating the underutilized BSs. However, it affects the performance of users in sleeping cells depending on their BS…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hina Tabassum , Uzma Siddique , Ekram Hossain , Md. Jahangir Hossain

This work aims to design the uplink (UL) of a cellular network for maximal energy efficiency (EE). Each base station (BS) is randomly deployed within a given area and is equipped with $M$ antennas to serve $K$ user equipments (UEs). A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Andrea Pizzo , Daniel Verenzuela , Luca Sanguinetti , Emil Björnson

We develop an analytical framework to derive the meta distribution and moments of the conditional success probability (CSP), which is defined as {success probability for a given realization of the transmitters}, in large-scale co-channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Mohammad Salehi , Hina Tabassum , Ekram Hossain

Opportunistic scheduling (OS) schemes have been proposed previously by the authors for multiuser MIMO-SDMA downlink systems with linear combining. In particular, it has been demonstrated that significant performance improvement can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Man-On Pun , Visa Koivunen , H. Vincent Poor

Understanding the performance of multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems under imperfect channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT) remains a critical challenge in next-generation wireless networks. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Maria Cecilia Fernández Montefiore , Gustavo González , F. Javier López-Martínez , Fernando Gregorio

From very recent studies, the area spectral efficiency (ASE) performance of downlink (DL) cellular networks will continuously decrease and finally to zero with the network densification in a fully loaded ultra-dense network (UDN) when the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Junnan Yang , Ming Ding , Guoqiang Mao , Zihuai Lin , De-gan Zhang , Tom Hao Luan

Explicit derivation of interferences in hexagonal wireless networks has been widely considered intractable and requires extensive computations with system level simulations. In this paper, we fundamentally tackle this problem and explicitly…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Ridha Nasri , Aymen Jaziri

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have shown the potential to improve signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) related coverage, especially at high-frequency communications. However, assessing electromagnetic field exposure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Lin Chen , Ahmed Elzanaty , Mustafa A Kishk , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Fractional frequency reuse (FFR) is an inter-cell interference coordination scheme that is being actively researched for emerging wireless cellular networks. In this work, we consider hexagonal tessellation based planned FFR deployments,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Suman Kumar , Sheetal Kalyani , K. Giridhar

This article investigates the performance of uplink rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) in a two-user scenario, addressing an under-explored domain compared to its downlink counterpart. With the increasing demand for uplink communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Farjam Karim , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Arthur S. de Sena , Deepak Kumar , Bruno Clerckx , Matti Latva-aho

This paper studies the asymptotic properties of average area spectral efficiency (ASE) of a downlink cellular network in the limit of very dense base station (BS) and user densities. This asymptotic analysis relies on three assumptions: (1)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Ahmad AlAmmouri , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Francois Baccelli