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Reliability and latency challenges in future mixed sub-6 GHz/millimeter wave (mmWave) fifth generation (5G) cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks is to guarantee a fast radio resource management in both uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Hatim Chergui , Kamel Tourki , Redouane Lguensat , Mustapha Benjillali , Christos Verikoukis , Mérouane Debbah

Cellular networks of massive MIMO base-stations employing TDD/OFDM and relying on uplink training for both downlink and uplink transmission are viewed as an attractive candidate for 5G deployments, as they promise high area spectral and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Zekun Zhang , Chenwei Wang , Haralabos Papadopoulos

Relay nodes-enhanced architectures are deemed a viable solution to enhance coverage and capacity of nowadays cellular networks. Besides a number of desirable features, these architectures reduce the average distance between users and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-06 Mattia Minelli , Maode Ma , Marceau Coupechoux , Jean-Marc Kelif , Marc Sigelle , Philippe Godlewski

This paper considers a downlink cell-free multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network in which multiple multi-antenna access points (APs) serve multiple users via coherent joint transmission. In order to reduce the energy consumption by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Liangzhi Wang , Chen Chen , Jie Zhang , Carlo Fischione

One main goal of 5G-and-beyond systems is to simultaneously serve many users, each having a requested spectral efficiency (SE), in an energy-efficient way. The network capacity cannot always satisfy all the SE requirements, for example,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Hien Quoc Ngo

This paper considers the downlink of a cache-enabled fog radio access network (F-RAN) with limited fronthaul capacity, where user association (UA), data delivery rate (DDR) and signal precoding are jointly optimized. We formulate a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Tung T. Vu , Duy T. Ngo , Lawrence Ong , Salman Durrani , Richard H. Middleton

In this paper, we analytically derive an upper bound on the error in approximating the uplink (UL) single-cell interference by a lognormal distribution in frequency division multiple access (FDMA) small cell networks (SCNs). Such an upper…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Ming Ding , David Lopez-Perez , Guoqiang Mao , Zihuai Lin

We characterize the uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) rates of a full-duplex cloud radio access network (C-RAN) with all participate and single best remote radio head (RRH) association schemes. Specifically, multi-antenna equipped RRHs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Mohammadali Mohammadi , Himal A. Suraweera , Chintha Tellambura

The bulk of the research on Long Term Evolution/Long Term Evolution-Advanced packet scheduling is concentrated in the downlink and the uplink is comparatively less explored. In up-link, channel aware scheduling with throughput maximization…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Atri Mukhopadhyay , Goutam Das

In this letter, we consider a new type of flexible-antenna system, termed pinching-antenna, where multiple low-cost pinching antennas, realized by activating small dielectric particles on a dielectric waveguide, are jointly used to serve a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Yanqing Xu , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis

Despite the common belief that substantial capacity gains can be achieved by using more antennas at the base-station (BS) side in cellular networks, the effect of BS antenna topology on the capacity scaling behavior is little understood. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Zhiyang Liu , Lin Dai

This paper considers wireless uplink information and downlink power transfer in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output systems. The single-antenna user equipments (UEs) utilize the energy harvested in the downlink to transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

Traditional link adaptation (LA) schemes in cellular network must be revised for networks beyond the fifth generation (b5G), to guarantee the strict latency and reliability requirements advocated by ultra reliable low latency communications…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Alessandro Brighente , Jafar Mohammadi , Paolo Baracca , Silvio Mandelli , Stefano Tomasin

One of the fundamental challenges to realize massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communications is the accurate acquisition of channel state information for a plurality of users at the base station. This is usually accomplished in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Chongwen Huang , George C. Alexandropoulos , Alessio Zappone , Chau Yuen , Mérouane Debbah

The concept of Ultra Dense Networks (UDN) is often seen as a key enabler of the next generation mobile networks. However, existing analysis of UDNs, including Stochastic Geometry, has not been able to fully determine the potential gains and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Marcin Filo , Chuan Heng Foh , Seiamak Vahid , Rahim Tafazolli

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

In this paper, we study the resource allocation algorithm design for distributed antenna multiuser networks with full-duplex (FD) radio base stations (BSs) which enable simultaneous uplink and downlink communications. The considered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Yongpeng Wu , Robert Schober

Recently, Dynamic Time Division Duplex (TDD) has been proposed to handle the asymmetry of traffic demand between DownLink (DL) and UpLink (UL) in Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets). However, for mixed traffic consisting of best effort traffic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Qiang Fan , Hancheng Lu , Peilin Hong , Chang Wen Chen

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

The advancement of fifth generation (5G) wireless communication networks has created a greater demand for wireless resource management solutions that offer high data rates, extensive coverage, minimal latency and energy-efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Cemil Vahapoglu , Timothy J. O'Shea , Tamoghna Roy , Sennur Ulukus