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A downlink single-input single-output non-orthogonal multiple access system is considered in which a base station (BS) is communicating with two legitimate users in the presence of an external eavesdropper. A group of trusted cooperative…
Localization systems intended for home use by people with mild cognitive impairment should comply with specific requirements. They should provide the users with sub-meter accuracy allowing for analyzing patient's movement trajectory and be…
The increasing demands for high-throughput and energy-efficient wireless communications are driving the adoption of extremely large antennas operating at high-frequency bands. In these regimes, multiple users will reside in the radiative…
Distributed multi-antenna systems are an important enabling technology for future intelligent transportation systems (ITS), showing promising performance in vehicular communications and near-field (NF) localization applications. This work…
Coordinated multi-point (CoMP) schemes have been widely studied in the recent years to tackle the inter-cell interference. In practice, latency and throughput constraints on the backhaul allow the organization of only small clusters of base…
The paper carries out performance analysis of a multiuser full-duplex (FD) communication system. Multiple FD UEs share the same spectrum resources, simultaneously, at both the uplink and downlink. This results in co-channel interference…
A near-field integrated sensing, positioning, and communication (ISPAC) framework is proposed, where a base station (BS) simultaneously serves multiple communication users and carries out target sensing and positioning. A novel double-array…
Uplink-downlink decoupling in which users can be associated to different base stations in the uplink and downlink of heterogeneous small cell networks (SCNs) has attracted significant attention recently. However, most existing works focus…
In this paper, a novel framework is proposed to enable a predictive deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as temporary base stations (BSs) to complement ground cellular systems in face of downlink traffic overload. First, a novel…
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle mounted base stations (UAV-BSs) can provide wireless services in a variety of scenarios. In this letter, we propose an optimal placement algorithm for UAV-BSs that maximizes the number of covered users using the…
Spot beamfocusing (SBF) is the process of focusing the signal power in a small spot-like region in the 3D space, which can be either hard-tuned (HT) using traditional tools like lenses and mirrors or electronically reconfigured (ER) using…
Recently, the development of mobile edge computing has enabled exhilarating edge artificial intelligence (AI) with fast response and low communication cost. The location information of edge devices is essential to support the edge AI in…
In this paper, we use an aerial base station (aerial-BS) to enhance fairness in a dynamic environment with user mobility. The problem of optimally placing the aerial-BS is a non-deterministic polynomial-time hard (NP-hard) problem.…
Consider a full-duplex (FD) multiuser system where an FD base station (BS) is designed to simultaneously serve both downlink users and uplink users in the presence of half-duplex eavesdroppers (Eves). Our problem is to maximize the minimum…
The fully-decoupled radio access network (FD-RAN) is an innovative architecture designed for next-generation mobile communication networks, featuring decoupled control and data planes as well as separated uplink and downlink transmissions.…
According to a very popular belief - very widespread among non-scientific communities - the exploitation of narrow beams, a.k.a. "pencil beamforming", results in a prompt increase of exposure levels radiated by 5G Base Stations (BSs). To…
Drone base stations (DBSs) can enhance network coverage and area capacity by moving supply towards demand when required. This degree of freedom could be especially useful for future applications with extreme demands, such as ultra reliable…
We study a mm-wave wireless network deployed along the roads of an urban area, to support localization and communication services simultaneously for outdoor mobile users. In this network, we propose a mm-wave initial beam-selection scheme…
We consider the problem of estimating an RF-device's location based on observations, such as received signal strength, from a set of transmitters with known locations. We survey the literature on this problem, showing that previous authors…
In this paper, we address the deployment of base stations (BSs) in a one-dimensional network in which the users are randomly distributed.In order to take into account the users' distribution to optimally place the BSs we optimize the uplink…