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Next generation (5G) cellular networks are expected to be supported by an extensive infrastructure with many-fold increase in the number of cells per unit area compared to today. The total energy consumption of base transceiver stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-14 Binnan Zhuang , Dongning Guo , Michael L. Honig

Characterizing user to access point (AP) association strategies in heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets) is critical for their performance analysis, as it directly influences the load across the network. In this letter, we introduce and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-08 Sarabjot Singh , Francois Baccelli , Jeffrey G. Andrews

The increasing global push for carbon reduction highlights the importance of integrating renewable energy into the supply chain of cellular networks. However, due to the stochastic nature of renewable energy generation and the uneven load…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Yuxi Zhao , Vicente Casares-Giner , Vicent Pla , Luis Guijarro , Iztok Humar , Yi Zhong , Xiaohu Ge

The emerging Internet of Things (IoT)-driven ultra-dense small cell networks (UD-SCNs) will need to combat a variety of challenges. On one hand, massive number of devices sharing the limited wireless resources will render centralized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Setareh Maghsudi , Ekram Hossain

In this paper, we propose a new approach for building cellular automata to solve real-world segmentation problems. We design and train a cellular automaton that can successfully segment high-resolution images. We consider a colony that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Mark Sandler , Andrey Zhmoginov , Liangcheng Luo , Alexander Mordvintsev , Ettore Randazzo , Blaise Agúera y Arcas

In this paper, we introduce an application-aware spectrum sharing approach for sharing the Federal under-utilized 3.5 GHz spectrum with commercial users. In our model, users are running elastic or inelastic traffic and each application…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Haya Shajaiah , Ahmed Abdelhadi , Charles Clancy

This paper studies the large-scale cell-free networks where dense distributed access points (APs) serve many users. As a promising next-generation network architecture, cell-free networks enable ultra-reliable connections and minimal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Zesheng Zhu , Lifeng Wang , Xin Wang , Dongming Wang , Kai-Kit Wong

Artificial intelligence approaches for base-band processing for radio receivers have demonstrated significant performance gains. Most of the proposed methods are characterized by high compute and memory requirements, hindering their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Mahdi Abdollahpour , Marco Bertuletti , Yichao Zhang , Yawei Li , Luca Benini , Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli

The intense demands for higher data rates and ubiquitous network coverage have raised the stakes on developing new network topology and architecture to meet these ever-increasing demands in a cost-effective manner. The telecommunication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Wei Wang , Lin Yang , Qian Zhang , Tao Jiang

In the wireless sensor networks composed of battery-powered sensor nodes, one of the main issues is how to save power consumption on each node. The usual approach to this problem is to activate only necessary nodes (e.g., those nodes which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-11 Susumu Matsumae

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm that leverages Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to extract task-relevant information, thereby substantially reducing the volume of transmitted data. In existing implementations,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xingqiu He , Chaoqun You , Zihan Chen , Yao Sun , Dongzhu Liu , Tony Q. S. Quek , Yue Gao

As two major players in terrestrial wireless communications, Wi-Fi systems and cellular networks have different origins and have largely evolved separately. Motivated by the exponentially increasing wireless data demand, cellular networks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Haijun Zhang , Xiaoli Chu , Weisi Guo , Siyi Wang

Large-scale mobile edge computing (MEC) systems require scalable solutions to allocate communication and computing resources to the users. In this letter we address this challenge by applying dynamic spectrum sharing among the base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Ming Zeng , Viktoria Fodor

We consider a distributed downlink user association problem in a small cell network, where small cells obtain the required energy for providing wireless services to users through ambient energy harvesting. Since energy harvesting is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Setareh Maghsudi , Ekram Hossain

This work investigates the use of deep learning to perform user cell association for sum-rate maximization in Massive MIMO networks. It is shown how a deep neural network can be trained to approach the optimal association rule with a much…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Alessio Zappone , Luca Sanguinetti , Merouane Debbah

We study the problem of associating mobile terminals to base stations in a linear interference network, with the goal of maximizing the average rate achieved over both the uplink and downlink sessions. The cell association decision is made…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Aly El Gamal

With increasing density of small cells in modern multi-cell deployments, a given user can have multiple options for its serving cell. The serving cell for each user must be carefully chosen such that the user achieves reasonably high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yongzhou Chen , Muhammad Taimoor Tariq , Haitham Hassanieh , Radhika Mittal

Regulators all around the world have started identifying the portions of the spectrum that will be used for the next generation of cellular networks. A band in the mmWave spectrum will be exploited to increase the available capacity. In…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Mattia Rebato , Michele Zorzi

Optimizing the cellular network's cell locations is one of the most fundamental problems of network design. The general objective is to provide the desired Quality-of-Service (QoS) with the minimum system cost. In order to meet a growing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Weisi Guo , Siyi Wang , Xiaoli Chu , Jiming Chen , Hui Song , Jie Zhang

The evolving fifth generation (5G) cellular wireless networks are envisioned to overcome the fundamental challenges of existing cellular networks, e.g., higher data rates, excellent end-to-end performance and user-coverage in hot-spots and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 E. Hossain , M. Rasti , H. Tabassum , A. Abdelnasser