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Content caching at small-cell base stations (SBSs) is a promising method to mitigate the excessive backhaul load and delay, particularly for on-demand video streaming applications. A cache-enabled heterogeneous cellular network architecture…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Emre Ozfatura , Deniz Gunduz

Wireless network virtualization has been well recognized as a way to improve the flexibility of wireless networks by decoupling the functionality of the system and implementing infrastructure and spectrum as services. Recent studies have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Zhiwen Hu , Zijie Zheng , Tao Wang , Lingyang Song , Xiaoming Li

This work identifies the fundamental limits of cache-aided coded multicasting in the presence of the well-known `worst-user' bottleneck. This stems from the presence of receiving users with uneven channel capacities, which often forces the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Eleftherios Lampiris , Jingjing Zhang , Osvaldo Simeone , Petros Elia

Hybrid beamforming (HB) architectures are attractive for wireless communication systems with large antenna arrays because the analog beamforming stage can significantly reduce the number of RF transceivers and hence power consumption. In HB…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Junmo Sung , Brian L. Evans

Edge caching can effectively reduce backhaul burden at core network and increase quality-ofservice at wireless edge nodes. However, the beneficial role of edge caching cannot be fully realized when the offloading link is in deep fade.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yingyang Chen , Miaowen Wen , Ertugrul Basar , Yik-Chung Wu , Li Wang , Weiping Liu

This letter investigates multi-mode pinching antenna systems (PASS), where signals of multiple orthogonal modes can be transmitted within a dielectric waveguide and radiated by pinching antennas (PAs). This enables mode-domain multiplexing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Xiaoxia Xu , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

This paper proposes energy-efficient coordinated beamforming strategies for multi-cell multi-user multiple-input single-output system. We consider a practical power consumption model, where part of the consumed power depends on the base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Oskari Tervo , Antti Tölli , Markku Juntti , Le-Nam Tran

We propose two cooperative beamforming frameworks based on federated learning (FL) for multi-cell integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems. Our objective is to address the following dilemma in multicell ISAC: 1) Beamforming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-29 Lai Jiang , Kaitao Meng , Murat Temiz , Jiaming Hu , Christos Masouros

We consider a user-centric co-operative cellular network, where base stations (BSs) close to a mobile co-operate to detect its signal using a (joint) linear minimum-mean-square-error receiver. The BSs are at arbitrary positions and mobiles…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Siddhartan Govindasamy , Itsik Bergel

To support millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency bands in cellular communications, both the base station and the mobile platform utilize large antenna arrays to steer narrow beams towards each other to compensate the path loss and improve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Junmo Sung , Brian L. Evans

Simultaneous multiuser beamforming in multiantenna downlink channels can entail dirty paper (DP) precoding (optimal and high complexity) or linear precoding (suboptimal and low complexity) approaches. The system performance is typically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-22 Serdar Ozyurt , Murat Torlak

Hybrid precoders and combiners are designed for cooperative cell-free multi-user millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) cellular networks for low complexity interference mitigation. Initially, we derive an optimal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Meesam Jafri , Suraj Srivastava , Naveen K. D. Venkategowda , Aditya K. Jagannatham , Lajos Hanzo

In this work we investigate optimal geographical caching in heterogeneous cellular networks where different types of base stations (BSs) have different cache capacities. Users request files from a content library according to a known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Berksan Serbetci , Jasper Goseling

This work focuses on a large-scale multi-cell multi-user MIMO system in which $L$ base stations (BSs) of $N$ antennas each communicate with $K$ single-antenna user equipments. We consider the design of the linear precoder that minimizes the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-27 Luca Sanguinetti , Romain Couillet , Merouane Debbah

The impacts of channel estimation errors, inter-cell interference, phase adjustment cost, and computation cost on an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted system are severe in practice but have been ignored for simplicity in most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Yuhang Jia , Ying Cui , Wuyang Jiang

In this paper we study energy efficient joint power allocation and beamforming for coordinated multicell multiuser downlink systems. The considered optimization problem is in a non-convex fractional form and hard to tackle. We propose to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-09 He Shiwen , Huang Yongming , Jin Shi , Yang Luxi

Multiple transmitting antennas can considerably increase the downlink spectral efficiency by beamforming to multiple users at the same time. However, multiuser beamforming requires channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Xu Du , John Tadrous , Ashutosh Sabharwal

The new paradigm of wirelessly powered two-tier heterogeneous networks (HetNets) is considered in this paper. Specifically, the femtocell base station (FBS) is powered by a power beacon (PB) and transmits confidential information to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Shiqi Gong , Shaodan Ma , Chengwen Xing , Yonghui Li , Lajos Hanzo

In this paper, we investigate the performance of cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) with multiple antenna nodes over composite and generalized fading channels. We model the probability density function (PDF) of the signal-to-noise ratio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ahmed Al Hammadi , Omar Alhussein , Sami Muhaidat , Mahmoud Al-Qutayri , Saleh Al-Araji , George K. Karagiannidis

This paper studies scalable conjugate beamforming (CB) variants for physical-layer multicasting in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems. Focusing on fully distributed precoding, we analyze classical CB,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Alejandro de la Fuente , Adrián Espinosa , Jan García-Morales , Guillem Femenias , Felip Riera-Palou