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Various system tasks like interference coordination, handover decisions, admission control etc. in current cellular networks require precise mid-term (spanning over a few seconds) performance models. Due to channel-dependent scheduling at…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-28 Donald Parruca , James Gross

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) provides good interference management by coordinating many more access points (APs) than user equipments (UEs). It becomes challenging to determine which APs should serve which UEs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Shuaifei Chen , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai

This paper focuses on communication, radar search, and tracking task scheduling in multi-cell integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks under quality-of-service constraints. We propose a medium access control framework that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 João Henrique Inacio de Souza , Fabio Saggese , Kun Chen-Hu , Petar Popovski

Inter-cell interference (ICI) is one of the major performance-limiting factors in the context of modern cellular systems. To tackle ICI, coordinated multi-point (CoMP) schemes have been proposed as a key technology for next-generation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Hamed Pezeshki , Masoumeh Sadeghi , Martin Haenggi , J. Nicholas Laneman

This paper studies the fair transmission design for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA). IRS is used to establish a good signal propagation environment and enhance the RSMA transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Shanshan Zhang , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Ziwei Liu , Shunqing Zhang , Jun Li

In this paper, we investigate a cell-free massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO)-enabled integration communication, computation, and sensing (ICCS) system, aiming to minimize the maximum computation latency to guarantee the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Qihao Peng , Qu Luo , Zheng Chu , Zihuai Lin , Maged Elkashlan , Pei Xiao , George K. Karagiannidis , Christos Masouros

It has been recently suggested that in wireless networks, CSMA-based distributed MAC algorithms could achieve optimal utility without any message passing. We present the first proof of convergence of such adaptive CSMA algorithms towards an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jiaping Liu , Yung Yi , Alexandre Proutiere , Mung Chiang , H. Vincent Poor

Imposing fairness in resource allocation incurs a loss of system throughput, known as the Price of Fairness ($PoF$). In wireless scheduling, $PoF$ increases when serving users with very poor channel quality because the scheduler wastes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Apostolos Destounis , Georgios S. Paschos , David Gesbert

This paper proposes an $\alpha$-fair multistatic integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework for multi-user multi-input multi-output (MIMO)-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, where communication users act…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Hyeonho Noh , Jonggyu Jang

Stream fairness, fairness between all streams in the system, is a more restrictive condition than sub-stream fairness, fairness between all streams of each user. Thus sub-stream fairness alleviates utility loss as well as complexity and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Cenk M. Yetis , Yong Zeng , Kushal Anand , Yong Liang Guan , Erry Gunawan

Rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) provides a flexible transmission framework that can be applied in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems. However, the research work on RSMA-assisted MEC systems is still at the infancy and many design…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Ding Xu , Lingjie Duan , Haitao Zhao , Hongbo Zhu

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) techniques can leverage existing, wide-coverage communication networks to perform sensing tasks, enabling large-scale and low-cost target sensing. However, the inherent randomness of communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Kaitao Meng , Kawon Han , Christos Masouros , Fan Liu

This paper focuses on multirate IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN employing the mandatory Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) option. Its aim is threefold. Upon starting from the multi-dimensional Markovian state transition model proposed by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-09-08 M. Laddomada , F. Mesiti , M. Mondin , F. Daneshgaran

In this paper, we examine the fundamental trade-off between radiated power and achieved throughput in wireless multi-carrier, multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems that vary with time in an unpredictable fashion (e.g. due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Ioannis Stiakogiannakis , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Corinne Touati

System optimum (SO) routing, wherein the total travel time of all users is minimized, is a holy grail for transportation authorities. However, SO routing may discriminate against users who incur much larger travel times than others to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-10 Devansh Jalota , Kiril Solovey , Matthew Tsao , Stephen Zoepf , Marco Pavone

A joint resource allocation (RA), user association (UA), and power control (PC) problem is addressed for proportional fairness maximization in a cooperative multiuser downlink small cell network with limited backhaul capacity, based on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Jonggyu Jang , Hyun Jong Yang , Hyekyung Jwa

This paper focuses on two-cell multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Gaussian interfering broadcast channels (MIMO-IFBC) with $K$ cooperating users on the cell-boundary of each BS. It corresponds to a downlink scenario for cellular networks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Wonjae Shin , Namyoon Lee , Jong-Bu Lim , Changyong Shin , Kyunghun Jang

A combined technique of interference alignment (IA) and interference cancellation (IC), known as interference alignment and cancellation (IAC) scheme, has been proposed to improve the total achievable degrees of freedom (DoFs) over IA.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-02 Qu Xin , Chung G. Kang

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is considered one of the crucial technologies in the upcoming sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication systems that could facilitate ultra-precise positioning of passive and active targets and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Maximiliano Rivera Figueroa , Pradyumna Kumar Bishoyi , Marina Petrova

In this paper, we investigate the fundamental tradeoff between communication and sensing performance of \emph{ad hoc} integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) wireless networks. Specifically, we consider that $n$ nodes are randomly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Min Qiu , Ming-Chun Lee , Yu-Chih Huang , Jinhong Yuan