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In this paper, we consider the effect of channel uncertainty on the rates reliably delivered to the users; i.e., the goodput. After the base station (BS) designs a set of beamformers for a specific objective, the BS must select the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-30 Mostafa Medra , Andrew W. Eckford , Raviraj Adve

Transmit beamforming for underwater acoustic communication is challenging because it requires perfect knowledge of the channel to the receiver in advance. In practice, channel estimates must be learned through feedback and are often noisy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Diego A. Cuji , Andrew C. Singer , Milica Stojanovic

This paper addresses the problem of outage characterization of an ambient backscatter communication system with a pair of passive tag and reader. In particular, an exact expression for the effective channel distribution is derived. Then,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Wenjing Zhao , Gongpu Wang , Saman Atapattu , Chintha Tellambura

Transmission line outage rates are fundamental to power system reliability analysis. Line outages are infrequent, occurring only about once a year, so outage data are limited. We propose a Bayesian hierarchical model that leverages line…

Applications · Statistics 2020-01-24 Kai Zhou , James R. Cruise , Chris J. Dent , Ian Dobson , Louis Wehenkel , Zhaoyu Wang , Amy L. Wilson

This article studies and derives beamforming design in a dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) multiple-input-multiple-output system. We focus on a scenario, where the DFRC base station communicates with downlink communication users,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-06 Ahmad Bazzi , Marwa Chafii

Motivated by the fact that full diversity order is achieved using the "best-relay" selection technique, we consider opportunistic amplify-and-forward and decode-and-forward relaying systems. We focus on the outage probability of such a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ashkan Kalantari , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Mehrdad Ardebilipour

In this letter, we study the outage probability of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted full duplex two-way communication systems, which characterizes the performance of overcoming the transmitted data loss caused by long deep…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Binyu Lu , Rui Wang , Yiming Liu

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks have grown rapidly in recent years and become attractive for various emergence communications scenarios. In this paper, we consider a UAV acting as a relay node to assist wireless transmissions from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Hui Tu , Jia Zhu , Yulong Zou

We present an optimized secure multi-antenna transmission approach based on artificial-noise-aided beamforming, with limited feedback from a desired single-antenna receiver. To deal with beamformer quantization errors as well as unknown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Xi Zhang , Matthew R. McKay , Xiangyun Zhou , Robert W. Heath

The outage probability performance of a dual-hop amplify-and-forward selective relaying system with global relay selection is analyzed for Nakagami-$m$ fading channels in the presence of multiple interferers at both the relays and the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Kezhi Wang , Yunfei Chen , Marco Di Renzo

This paper proposes a robust beamforming scheme to enhance the physical layer security (PLS) of multicast transmission in a cognitive satellite and aerial network (CSAN) operating in the millimeter wave frequency band. Based on imperfect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-14 Bai Zhao , Min Lin , Ming Cheng , Wei-Ping Zhu , Naofal Al-Dhahir

In this paper, a transmit antenna selection scheme, which is based on shadowing side information, is investigated. In this scheme, the selected single transmit antenna provides the highest shadowing coefficient between transmitter and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-20 Ahmet Yilmaz , Ferkan Yilmaz , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Oğuz Kucur

The optimal PMU locations to collect voltage phase angle measurements for detecting line outages in wide-area transmission networks are investigated. The problem is established as one of maximizing the minimum distance among the voltage…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-30 Yue Zhao , Andrea Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

The recently emerged movable antenna (MA) and fluid antenna technologies offer promising solutions to enhance the spatial degrees of freedom in wireless systems by dynamically adjusting the positions of transmit or receive antennas within…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Yikun Wang , Yang Li , Zeyi Ren , Jingreng Lei , Yik-Chung Wu , Rui Zhang

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems rely on narrow beams for achieving sufficient receive signal power. Adjusting these beams is typically associated with large training overhead, which becomes particularly critical for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-09 João Morais , Arash Behboodi , Hamed Pezeshki , Ahmed Alkhateeb

We introduce a model for capturing the effects of beam misdirection on coverage and throughput in a directional wireless network using stochastic geometry. In networks employing ideal sector antennas without sidelobes, we find that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Jeffrey Wildman , Pedro H J Nardelli , Matti Latva-aho , Steven Weber

In the first part of this two-part letter, we introduced methods to study the impact of dependency on the expected value of functions of two random variables. In this second part, we present tools to derive worst- and best-case bounds on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Karl-Ludwig Besser , Eduard A. Jorswieck

This paper investigates the optimization of the long-standing probabilistically robust transmit beamforming problem with channel uncertainties in the multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink transmission. This problem poses…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Kai Liang , Gan Zheng , Zan Li , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) MIMO systems rely on highly directional beamforming to overcome severe path loss and ensure robust communication links. However, selecting the optimal beam pair efficiently remains a challenge due to the large…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Joseph K. Chege , Arie Yeredor , Martin Haardt

In this paper exact closed-form expressions are derived for the outage probability (OP) in scenarios where both the signal of interest (SOI) and the interfering signals experience {\eta}-{\mu} fading and the background noise can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jose F. Paris