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Due to an ever-increasing number of participants and new areas of application, the demands on mobile communications systems are continually increasing. In order to deliver higher data rates, enable mobility and guarantee QoS requirements of…
Relay-enabled backscatter communication (BC) is an intriguing paradigm to alleviate energy shortage and improve throughput of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. Most of the existing works focus on the resource allocation that considered the…
Wireless connectivity is essential for industrial production processes and workflow management. Moreover, the connectivity requirements of industrial devices, which are usually long-term investments, are diverse and require different radio…
In this paper, we consider the design of joint resource blocks (RBs) and power allocation for dual-mode base stations operating over millimeter wave (mmW) band and microwave ($\mu$W) band. The resource allocation design aims to minimize the…
This paper addresses the cell association problem in the downlink of a multi-tier heterogeneous network (HetNet), where base stations (BSs) have finite number of resource blocks (RBs) available to distribute among their associated users.…
The use of a very large number of antennas at each base station site (referred to as "Massive MIMO") is one of the most promising approaches to cope with the predicted wireless data traffic explosion. In combination with Time Division…
Traditionally, wireless cellular systems have been designed to operate in Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) paired bands that allocates the same amount of spectrum for both downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) communication. Such design is very…
This paper investigates the energy efficiency (EE) optimization in downlink multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). In our research, the statistical channel state information (CSI) is exploited to reduce the signaling…
The surging global mobile data traffic challenges the economic viability of cellular networks and calls for innovative solutions to reduce the network congestion and improve user experience. In this context, user-provided networks (UPNs),…
Recent years have witnessed an exponential growth of mobile data traffic, which may lead to a serious traffic burn on the wireless networks and considerable power consumption. Network densification and edge caching are effective approaches…
Traditional macro-cell networks are experiencing an upsurge of data traffic, and small-cells are deployed to help offload the traffic from macro-cells. Given the massive deployment of small-cells in a macro-cell, the aggregate power…
By executing offloaded tasks from mobile users, edge computing augments mobile user equipments (UEs) with computing/communications resources from edge nodes (ENs), enabling new services (e.g., real-time gaming). However, despite being more…
Using stochastic geometry, we develop a tractable uplink modeling paradigm for outage probability and spectral efficiency in both single and multi-tier cellular wireless networks. The analysis accounts for per user equipment (UE) power…
We address the optimization of the sum rate performance in multicell interference-limited singlehop networks where access points are allowed to cooperate in terms of joint resource allocation. The resource allocation policies considered…
In this paper, a novel dual-mode scheduling framework is proposed that jointly performs user applications (UA) selection and scheduling over microwave ($\mu$W) and millimeter wave (mmW) bands. The proposed scheduling framework utilizes a…
In this paper, we provide joint subcarrier assignment and power allocation schemes for quality-of-service (QoS)-constrained energy-efficiency (EE) optimization in the downlink of an orthogonal frequency division multiple access…
We study low-signalling overhead scheduling for downlink coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission with multi-antenna base stations (BSs) and single-antenna users. By exploiting the asymmetric channel feature, i.e., the pathloss…
In this paper, we develop a framework to maximize the network energy efficiency (EE) by optimizing joint user-base station~(BS) association,~subchannel assignment, and power control considering an in-band full-duplex (IBFD)-enabled…
Small cell network (SCN) offers, for the first time, a low-cost and scalable mechanism to meet the forecast data-traffic demand. In this paper, we propose a non-uniform SCN deployment scheme. The small cell base stations (BSs) in this…