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Unlicensed spectrum supports diverse traffic with stringent Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements. In NR-U/Wi-Fi coexistence,the values of MAC parameters critically influence delay, collision behavior, and airtime fairness and efficiency.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Mohammad Reza Fasihi , Brian L. Mark

To access an unlicensed channel Wi-Fi follows Listen Before Talk (LBT) mechanism whereas LTE-U adopts ON-OFF duty cycled mechanism to fairly share the channel with Wi-Fi. These contrasting mechanisms result in quite different performance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Anand M. Baswade , Mohith Reddy , Antony Franklin A , Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication is of crucial importance in realizing heterogeneous practical wireless application scenarios. However, the densely populated users and diverse services with high data rate demands has triggered an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Rui Ding , Fuhui Zhou , Yuhang Wu , Qihui Wu , Tony Q. S. Quek

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks with mega constellations have the potential to provide 5G and beyond services ubiquitously. However, these networks may introduce mutual interference to both satellite and terrestrial networks,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Daeun Kim , Jeonghun Park , Jinseok Choi , Namyoon Lee

Coexistence between cellular systems and Wi-Fi gained the attention of the research community when LTE License Assisted Access (LAA) entered the unlicensed band. The recent introduction of NR-U as part of 5G introduces new coexistence…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Katarzyna Kosek-Szott , Alice Lo Valvo , Szymon Szott , Pierluigi Gallo , Ilenia Tinnirello

Extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA) systems emerge as a promising technology in beyond 5G and 6G wireless networks to support the deployment of distributed architectures. This paper explores the use of ELAAs to enable joint…

In this paper, we present Sense-Bandits, an AI-based framework for distributed adaptation of the sensing thresholds (STs) over shared spectrum. This framework specifically targets the coexistence of heterogenous technologies, e.g., Wi-Fi,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Mohammed Hirzallah , Marwan Krunz

In response to the advent of the 5G era, enhancing throughput and increasing transmission efficiency within limited spectrum resources is an important research topic. In the LTE system, utilizing unlicensed spectrum to assist traditional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Uyoy Ial

Coexistence of Wi-Fi and LTE-Unlicensed (LTE-U) technologies has drawn significant concern in industry. In this paper, we investigate the Wi-Fi performance in the presence of duty cycle based LTE-U transmission on the same channel. More…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Yimin Pang , Alireza Babaei , Jennifer Andreoli-Fang , Belal Hamzeh

The use of unlicensed spectrum for future LTE systems raises concerns about its impact on co-located Wi-Fi networks. We report herein on extensions to a popular network simulator, known as ns-3, to model such coexistence. To our knowledge,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Lorenza Giupponi , Thomas Henderson , Biljana Bojovic , Marco Miozzo

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-29 David Candal-Ventureira , Francisco Javier González-Castaño , Felipe Gil-Castiñeira , Pablo Fondo-Ferreiro

In this paper, we propose a dynamic spectrum sensing-based architecture to provide connectivity for a massive number of Internet-of-things (IoT) objects over the unlicensed spectrum. Specifically, the architecture relies on deploying…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-07 Ghaith Hattab , Danijela Cabric

Unlicensed 6GHz is becoming a primary workhorse for high-capacity access, with Wi-Fi and 5G NR-U competing for the same channels under listen-before-talk (LBT) rules. Operating in this regime requires decisions that jointly trade…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Qun Wang , Yingzhou Lu , Guiran Liu , Binrong Zhu , Yang Liu

The utilization of unlicensed spectrum presents a promising solution to the issue of spectrum scarcity in densely populated areas, while also offering a cost-effective means to connect underserved regions. In response to this potential,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Karim Saifullin , Hussein Al-Shatri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The unlicensed spectrum has been utilized to make up the shortage on frequency spectrum in new radio (NR) systems. To fully exploit the advantages brought by the unlicensed bands, one of the key issues is to guarantee the fair coexistence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Rui Yin , Zhiqun Zou , Celimuge Wu , Jiantao Yuan , Xianfu Chen , Guanding Yu

In this paper, we present our spectrum sharing algorithm between a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) radar and Long Term Evolution (LTE) cellular system with multiple base stations (BS)s. We analyze the performance of MIMO radars in detecting…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-08-29 Haya Shajaiah , Ahmed Abdelhadi , Charles Clancy

Connectivity is probably the most basic building block of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. Up to know, the two main approaches to provide data access to the \emph{things} have been based either on multi-hop mesh networks using…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Marco Centenaro , Lorenzo Vangelista , Andrea Zanella , Michele Zorzi

The main building block of Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem is providing low-cost scalable connectivity for the radio/compute-constrained devices. This connectivity could be realized over the licensed spectrum like Narrowband-IoT (NBIoT)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Amin Azari , Meysam Masoudi

This paper studies how to maximize the per-user-based throughput in an M-tier heterogeneous wireless network (HetNet) by optimally managing traffic flows between the access points (APs) in the HetNet. The APs in the first M-1 tiers can use…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Chun-Hung Liu , Hong-Cheng Tsai

Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) of smart grid requires bidirectional communication for transferring data to billing center, for which WiFi is an attractive choice. However, WiFi operates in the unlicensed bands and LTE needs to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Imtiaz Parvez , Tanwir Khan , Arif Sarwat , Zakaria Parvez