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Inter-cell interference is one of the main limiting factors in current Heterogeneous Cellular Networks (HCNs). Uplink Fractional Power Control (FPC) is a well known method that aims to cope with such limiting factor as well as to save…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Francisco J. Martin-Vega , Gerardo Gomez , Mari Carmen Aguayo-Torres , Marco Di Renzo

Applying integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) to a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) architecture has attracted increasing attention. This approach equips CF mMIMO networks with sensing capabilities and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Yifei Fan , Shaochuan Wu , Xixi Bi , Guoyu Li

Interference alignment promises that, in Gaussian interference channels, each link can support half of a degree of freedom (DoF) per pair of transmit-receive antennas. However, in general, this result requires to precode the data bearing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-14 Vasilis Ntranos , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Giuseppe Caire

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) has been identified as one of the six usage scenarios for IMT-2030. Compared with communication performance, sensing performance is much more vulnerable to interference, and the received…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-28 Bichai Wang , Xiuhong Wei , Xueru Li , Yongxing Zhou

We optimize the throughput of a single cell multiuser orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system with proportional data rate fairness among the users. The concept is to support mobile users with different levels of service. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Mirza Golam Kibria , Shan Lin

This paper investigates the optimal power allocation scheme for sum throughput maximization of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system with $\alpha$-fairness. In contrast to the existing fairness NOMA models, $\alpha$-fairness can only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Peng Xu , Kanapathippillai Cumanan

We consider the problem of coding over the multi-user Interference Channel (IC). It is well-known that aligning the interfering signals results in improved achievable rates in certain setups involving more than two users. We argue that in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-18 F. Shirani , S. S. Pradhan

Resource allocation and interference management are two main issues that need to be carefully addressed in visible light communication (VLC) systems. In this paper, we propose a resource allocation scheme that can also handle the inter-cell…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Marwan Hammouda , Anna Maria Vegni , Harald Haas , Jürgen Peissig

This paper considers the deployment of a hybrid wireless data/power access point in an 802.11-based wireless powered IoT network. The proportionally fair allocation of throughputs across IoT nodes is considered under the constraints of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Xiaomin Chen , Zhan Shu , Kezhi Wang , Fangmin Xu , Yue Cao

We propose a novel secure integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system designed to serve multiple communication users (CUs) and targets. To that end, we formulate an optimization problem that maximizes the secrecy rate under…

This paper proposes a linear interference alignment (IA) scheme which can be used for uplink channels in a general multicell multiuser MIMO cellular network. The proposed scheme aims to align interference caused by signals from a set of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-22 Khanh Pham , Kyungchun Lee

Interference alignment (IA) is a widely recognized approach for mitigating inter-cell interference in multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks. Despite its effectiveness, practical deployment remains constrained by two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Samitha Gunarathne , Eslam Eldeeb , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Italo Atzeni

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems provide significant enhancements in performance and resource efficiency compared to individual sensing and communication systems, primarily attributed to the collaborative use of wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Jiayu Liu , Kai Wan , Xinping Yi , Robert Caiming Qiu , Giuseppe Caire

We consider the problem of linear transceiver design to achieve max-min fairness in a downlink MIMO multicell network. This problem can be formulated as maximizing the minimum rate among all the users in an interfering broadcast channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-03 Meisam Razaviyayn , Mingyi Hong , Zhi-Quan Luo

Two-tier networks, comprising a conventional cellular network overlaid with shorter range hotspots (e.g. femtocells, distributed antennas, or wired relays), offer an economically viable way to improve cellular system capacity. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-11-24 Vikram Chandrasekhar , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Interference Alignment (IA) is technique that, in a large sense, makes use of the increasing signal dimensions available in the system through MIMO and OFDM technologies in order to globally reduce the interference suffered by users in a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Yasser Fadlallah , Paul Ferrand , Leonardo Cardoso , Jean-Marie Gorce

As a revolutionary wireless transmission strategy, interference alignment (IA) can improve the capacity of the cell-edge users. However, the acquisition of the global channel state information (CSI) for IA leads to unacceptable overhead in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Jianpeng Ma , Shun Zhang , Hongyan Li , Nan Zhao , Victor C. M. Leung

This paper studies the transmit power optimization in a multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. To overcome the scalability issue of network-wide max-min fairness (NW-MMF), we propose a novel power control (PC)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Amin Ghazanfari , Hei Victor Cheng , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

We consider the uplink of a cellular communication system with $K$ users per cell and infinite base stations equally spaced on a line. The system is conventional, i.e., it does not make use of joint cell-site processing. A hard fairness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-02-22 Daeyoung Park , Giuseppe Caire

We address the problem of downlink beamforming for mitigating the co-channel interference in multi-cell OFDMA networks. Based on the network utility maximization framework, we formulate the problem as a non-convex optimization problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Weiqiang Xu , Xiaodong Wang