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Green cellular networking has become an important research area in recent years due to environmental and economical concerns. Switching off under-utilized BSs during off-peak traffic load conditions is a promising approach to reduce energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Prabhu Chandhar , Suvra Sekhar Das

While routing in wireless networks has been studied extensively, existing protocols are typically designed for a specific set of network conditions and so cannot accommodate any drastic changes in those conditions. For instance, protocols…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Victoria Manfredi , Alicia Wolfe , Bing Wang , Xiaolan Zhang

Methods for accurate prediction of radio signal quality parameters are crucial for optimization of mobile networks, and a necessity for future autonomous driving solutions. The power-distance relation of current empirical models struggles…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Jakob Thrane , Benjamin Sliwa , Christian Wietfeld , Henrik Christiansen

We consider a multicast scheme recently proposed for a wireless downlink in [1]. It was shown earlier that power control can significantly improve its performance. However for this system, obtaining optimal power control is intractable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Ramkumar Raghu , Pratheek Upadhyaya , Mahadesh Panju , Vaneet Aggarwal , Vinod Sharma

In this paper, a joint task, spectrum, and transmit power allocation problem is investigated for a wireless network in which the base stations (BSs) are equipped with mobile edge computing (MEC) servers to jointly provide computational and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Sihua Wang , Mingzhe Chen , Xuanlin Liu , Changchuan Yin , Shuguang Cui , H. Vincent Poor

Deep reinforcement learning offers a model-free alternative to supervised deep learning and classical optimization for solving the transmit power control problem in wireless networks. The multi-agent deep reinforcement learning approach…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Yasar Sinan Nasir , Dongning Guo

Modern radio communication is faced with a problem about how to distribute restricted frequency to users in a certain space. Since our task is to minimize the number of repeaters, a natural idea is enlarging coverage area. However, coverage…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-12-08 Yi Bao , Chao Wang , Ming Chen

The roll out of new mobile network generations poses hard challenges due to various factors such as cost-benefit tradeoffs, existing infrastructure, and new technology aspects. In particular, one of the main challenges for the 5G deployment…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Paul Almasan , José Suárez-Varela , Andra Lutu , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio , Pere Barlet-Ros

In cellular networks, users are grouped into different cells and served by different access points (base stations) that provide wireless access to services and applications. In general, the service demand is very heterogeneous,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-07 David González G. , Harri Hakula , Antti Rasila , Jyri Hämäläinen

Wireless network virtualization is emerging as an important technology for next-generation (5G) wireless networks. A key advantage of introducing virtualization in cellular networks is that service providers can robustly share virtualized…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-27 Shubhajeet Chatterjee , Mohammad J Abdel-Rahman , Allen B. MacKenzie

Future wireless networks must provide ever higher data rates. The available bandwidth increases roughly linearly as we increase the carrier frequency, but the range shrinks drastically. This paper explores if we can instead reach massive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Amna Irshad , Alva Kosasih , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

Future 5G cellular networks supporting ultra-reliable, low-latency communications (URLLC) could employ random access communication to reduce the overhead compared to scheduled access techniques used in 4G networks. We consider a wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Derya Malak , Howard Huang , Jeffrey G. Andrews

In cellular networks, resource allocation is usually performed in a centralized way, which brings huge computation complexity to the base station (BS) and high transmission overhead. This paper explores a distributed resource allocation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Zelin Ji , Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is a promising technology to cope with the exponential increase in 5G data traffic. Such networks typically require a very dense deployment of base stations. A subset of those, so-called macro base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Dingwen Yuan , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Jörg Widmer , Matthias Hollick

Several studies have explored deep learning algorithms to predict large-scale signal fading, or path loss, in urban communication networks. The goal is to replace costly measurement campaigns, inaccurate statistical models, or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Fabian Jaensch , Giuseppe Caire , Begüm Demir

This paper considers a device-to-device (D2D) underlaid cellular network where an uplink cellular user communicates with the base station while multiple direct D2D links share the uplink spectrum. This paper proposes a random network model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Namyoon Lee , Xingqin Lin , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Robert W. Heath

We investigate cross-layer optimization to route information across distributed wireless body-to-body networks, based on real-life experimental measurements. At the network layer, the best possible route is selected according to channel…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Samiya M. Shimly , David B. Smith , Samaneh Movassaghi

This report presents a more detailed description of the algorithm and simulations published in papers [1, 2]. It includes a step by step description of the algorithm and included the corresponding flow chart. In addition, detailed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Ahmed Abdelhadi , Haya Shajaiah

Offloading traffic through opportunistic communications has been recently proposed as a way to relieve the current overload of cellular networks. Opportunistic communication can occur when mobile device users are (temporarily) in each…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-15 Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Domenico Giustiniano , Albert Banchs , Andreea Picu

We introduce a unified framework for analyzing utility regions of wireless networks, with a focus on signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) and achievable rate regions. The framework provides valuable insights into interference…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Renato Luis Garrido Cavalcante , Tomasz Piotrowski , Slawomir Stanczak