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Uplink sensing is still a relatively unexplored scenario in integrated sensing and communication which can be used to improve positioning and sensing estimates. We introduce a pilot-based maximum likelihood, and a maximum a posteriori…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Enrique T. R. Pinto , Markku Juntti

This paper proposes an approach that leverages multimodal data by integrating visual images with radio frequency (RF) pilots to optimize user association and beamforming in a downlink wireless cellular network under a max-min fairness…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Yinghan Li , Yiming Liu , Wei Yu

Nonlinear aggregation is central to modern distributed systems, yet its privacy behavior is far less understood than that of linear aggregation. Unlike linear aggregation where mature mechanisms can often suppress information leakage,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Wenrui Yu , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Richard Heusdens , Qiongxiu Li

Channel state information (CSI) acquisition is essential for the base station (BS) to fully reap the beamforming gain in intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided downlink communication systems. Recently, [1] revealed a strong correlation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Rui Wang , Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Shi Jin

Throughput-optimal transmission scheduling in wireless networks has been a well considered problem in the literature, and the method for achieving optimality, MaxWeight scheduling, has been known for several decades. This algorithm achieves…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Thomas Stahlbuhk , Brooke Shrader , Eytan Modiano

A cell-free network merged with active reconfigurable reflecting surfaces (RIS) is investigated in this paper. Based on the imperfect channel state information (CSI), the aggregated channel from the user to the access point (AP) is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-23 Mahdi Eskandari , Huiling Zhu , Jiangzhou Wang

In this work, for the first time, we tackle channel estimation design with pilots in the context of covert wireless communication. Specifically, we consider Rayleigh fading for the communication channel from a transmitter to a receiver and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Tingzhen Xu , Linlin Sun , Shihao Yan , Jinsong Hu , Feng Shu

In this work, we study the value of cooperative transmission in wireless networks if no channel state information is available at the transmitters (no CSIT). Our focus is on large locally connected networks, where each transmitter is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Aly El Gamal

Random access is a multiple access communication protocol where the users simultaneously communicate with a base station (BS) in an uncoordinated fashion. In this work, we consider the problem of multiuser detection in a random access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-15 Md Mashud Hyder

In this paper, we present a novel method for a base station (BS) to estimate the total downlink interference power received by any given mobile receiver, without information feedback from the user or information exchange between…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Siyi Wang , Weisi Guo , Mark D. McDonnell

To provide Uplink Centric Broadband Communication (UCBC), New Radio Unlicensed (NR-U) network has been standardized to exploit the unlicensed spectrum using Listen Before Talk (LBT) scheme to fairly coexist with the incumbent Wireless…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-20 Hui Zhou , Yansha Deng

Cell-free wireless networks have attracted significant interest for their ability to eliminate cell-edge effects and deliver uniformly high service quality through macro-diversity. In this paper, we develop an algorithm to jointly optimize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Achini Jayawardane , Rajitha Senanayake , Erfan Khordad , Jamie Evans

We investigate large wireless networks subject to security constraints. In contrast to point-to-point, interference-limited communications considered in prior works, we propose active cooperative relaying based schemes. We consider a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Mahtab Mirmohseni , Panagiotis Papadimitratos

We study opportunistic scheduling and the sum capacity of cellular networks with a full-duplex multi-antenna base station and a large number of single-antenna half-duplex users. Simultaneous uplink and downlink over the same band results in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Can Karakus , Suhas Diggavi

This paper considers the uplink of a distributed Massive MIMO network where $N$ base stations (BSs), each equipped with $M$ antennas, receive data from $K=2$ users. We study the asymptotic spectral efficiency (as $M\to \infty$) with spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Luca Sanguinetti , Emil Bjornson , Jakob Hoydis

We consider the non-coherent single-input multiple-output (SIMO) multiple access channel with general signaling under spatially correlated Rayleigh block fading. We propose a novel soft-output multi-user detector that computes an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Maxime Guillaud , Alexis Decurninge , Sheng Yang , Philip Schniter

This paper focuses on the design of medium access control protocols for cognitive radio networks. The scenario in which a single cognitive user wishes to opportunistically exploit the availability of empty frequency bands within parts of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-02-20 Lifeng Lai , Hesham El Gamal , Hai Jiang , H. Vincent Poor

We present nonasymptotic upper and lower bounds on the maximum coding rate achievable when transmitting short packets over a Rician memoryless block-fading channel for a given requirement on the packet error probability. We focus on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Johan Östman , Giuseppe Durisi , Erik G. Ström , Mustafa C. Coşkun , Gianluigi Liva

We study non-coherent detection schemes for molecular communication (MC) systems that do not require knowledge of the channel state information (CSI). In particular, we first derive the optimal maximum likelihood (ML) multiple-symbol (MS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Vahid Jamali , Nariman Farsad , Robert Schober , Andrea Goldsmith

Reliable uplink connectivity remains a persistent challenge for IoT devices, particularly those at the cell edge, due to their limited transmit power and single-antenna configurations. This paper introduces a novel framework aimed at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yimeng Li , Yulin Shao