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Current and emerging mobile devices are omni directional in wireless communication. Such omni directionality not only limits device energy efficiency but also poses a significant challenge toward the capacity of wireless networks through…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-12-14 Hang Yu , Lin Zhong , Ashutosh Sabharwal

The challenge to in-band full-duplex wireless communication is managing self-interference. Many designs have employed spatial isolation mechanisms, such as shielding or multi-antenna beamforming, to isolate the self-interference wave from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-10 Evan Everett , Ashutosh Sabharwal

An asymptotic technique is presented to characterize the bits/symbol achievable on a representative wireless link in a spatially distributed network with active interferers at correlated positions, N receive diversity branches, and linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Siddhartan Govindasamy

In this work, we consider a method of searching of the direction of a wireless network development (the places of new access points or base stations etc.) optimized with criteria of coverage of important territories and minimum cost of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-09-03 Lev Kazakovtsev

The millimeter wave (mmWave) bands and other high frequencies above 6~GHz have emerged as a central component of Fifth-Generation (5G) cellular standards to deliver high data rates and ultra-low latency. A key challenge in these bands is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Christopher Slezak , Vasilii Semkin , Sergey Andreev , Yevgeni Koucheryavy , Sundeep Rangan

At millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies, signals are prone to blocking by objects in the environment, which causes paths to go from line-of-sight (LOS) to non-LOS (NLOS). We consider macrodiversity as a strategy to improve the performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Enass Hriba , Matthew C. Valenti

In this letter, we study the joint impact of user density, blockage density and deployment area on the temporal correlation of interference for static and highly mobile users. We show that even if the user locations become uncorrelated, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Konstantinos Koufos , Carl P. Dettmann , Justin P. Coon

This study investigates signal transmission within a shared spectrum, focusing on measurements conducted both in laboratory and outdoor environments. The objective was to demonstrate how laboratory objects obstructing the line of sight can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Andrei-Raoul Morariu , Andreas Strandberg , Bogdan Iancu , Jerker Bjorkqvist

Outage probabilities and single-hop throughput are two important performance metrics that have been evaluated for certain specific types of wireless networks. However, there is a lack of comprehensive results for larger classes of networks,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Martin Haenggi

Millimeter wave communications rely on narrow-beam transmissions to cope with the strong signal attenuation at these frequencies, thus demanding precise beam alignment between transmitter and receiver. The communication overhead incurred to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Muddassar Hussain , Nicolo Michelusi

Interference is a major issue limiting the performance in wireless networks. Cooperation among receivers can help mitigate interference by forming distributed MIMO systems. The rate at which receivers cooperate, however, is limited in most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-12 I-Hsiang Wang , David N. C. Tse

Using no conventional measurements in position space, information extraction rates exceeding one bit per photon are achieved by employing high-dimensional correlated orbital angular momentum (OAM) states for object recognition. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-23 Casey A. Fitzpatrick , David S. Simon , Alexander V. Sergienko

This paper discusses the geometrical features and wideband performance of the beam with maximal ratio combining coefficients for a generic multi-antenna receiver. In particular, in case the channel is a linear combination of plane waves, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Andrea Bedin , Andrea Zanella

This paper presents a novel spatially consistent approach for modeling line-of-sight (LOS) paths in vehicular networks. We use stochastic geometry to model transmitters, obstacles, and receivers located in three parallel lines,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Chang-Sik Choi , François Baccelli

In this paper, we study jamming attacks against wireless networks. Specifically, we consider a network of base stations (BS) or access points (AP) and investigate the impact of a fixed number of jammers that are randomly deployed according…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 SaiDhiraj Amuru , Harpreet S. Dhillon , R. Michael Buehrer

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication is a key component of 5G and beyond. Harvesting the gains of the large bandwidth and low latency at mmWave systems, however, is challenged by the sensitivity of mmWave signals to blockages; a sudden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Shunyao Wu , Muhammad Alrabeiah , Andrew Hredzak , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Ahmed Alkhateeb

The advantages of convergent beam electron diffraction for symmetry determination at the scale of a few nm are well known. In practice, the approach is often limited due to the restriction on the angular range of the electron beam imposed…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-07-09 Richard Beanland , Paul J. Thomas , David I. Woodward , Pamela A. Thomas , Rudolf A. Roemer

Millimeter wave (mmW) wireless networks are capable to support multi-gigabit data rates, by using directional communications with narrow beams. However, existing mmW communications standards are hindered by two problems: deafness and single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Lazaros Gkatzikis , Carlo Fischione

We consider performance enhancement of asymmetrically-clipped optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ACO-OFDM) and related optical OFDM schemes, which are variations of OFDM in intensity-modulated optical wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Xiaozhen Liu , Jing Zhou , Nuo Huang , Wenyi Zhang

With millimeter wave wireless communications, the resulting radiation reflects on most visible objects, creating rich multipath environments, namely in urban scenarios. The radiation captured by a listening device is thus shaped by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-12 João Gante , Gabriel Falcão , Leonel Sousa