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Base station cooperation in heterogeneous wireless networks (HetNets) is a promising approach to improve the network performance, but it also imposes a significant challenge on backhaul. On the other hand, caching at small base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-23 Wanli Wen , Ying Cui , Fu-Chun Zheng , Shi Jin , Yanxiang Jiang

Wireless content caching in small cell networks (SCNs) has recently been considered as an efficient way to reduce the traffic and the energy consumption of the backhaul in emerging heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets). In this paper,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Zheng Chen , Jemin Lee , Tony Q. S. Quek , Marios Kountouris

We develop a general downlink model for multi-antenna heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets), where base stations (BSs) across tiers may differ in terms of transmit power, target signal-to-interference-ratio (SIR), deployment density,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Harpreet S. Dhillon , Marios Kountouris , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Recently, a mmWave-based access and backhaul integration heterogeneous networks (HetNets) architecture (mABHetNets) has been envisioned to provide high wireless capacity.Since the access link and the backhaul link share the same mmwave…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Chenwu Zhang , Hao Wu , Hancheng Lu , Jinxue Liu

Recently, wireless edge caching has been emerged as a promising technology for future wireless networks to cope with exponentially increasing demands for high data rate and low latency multimedia services by proactively storing contents at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Sepehr Rezvani , Nader Mokari , Mohammad R. Javan , Eduard A. Jorswieck

Deploying sub-6GHz network together with millimeter wave (mmWave) is a promising solution to simultaneously achieve sufficient coverage and high data rate. In the heterogeneous networks (HetNets), the traditional coupled access, i.e., the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-03 Minwei Shi , Kai Yang , Chengwen Xing , Rongfei Fan

Emerging heterogeneous wireless architectures consist of a dense deployment of local-coverage wireless access points (APs) with high data rates, along with sparsely-distributed, large-coverage macro-cell base stations (BS). We design a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jad Hachem , Nikhil Karamchandani , Suhas Diggavi

While multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technologies continue to advance, concerns arise as to how MIMO can remain scalable if more users are to be accommodated with an increasing number of antennas at the base station (BS) in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Yuanjun Shen , Boyi Tang , Shuai Gao , Kin-Fai Tong , Hang Wong , Kai-Kit Wong , Yangyang Zhang

Millimeter-wave networks have already been successfully rolled out in many countries and now the research direction heads toward new technologies and standards to enable Tbps rates for future sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Leila Tlebaldiyeva , Sultangali Arzykulov , Khaled M. Rabie , Xingwang Li , Galymzhan Nauryzbayev

In this paper, we analyze the role of fluid antenna systems (FAS) in multi-user systems with hardware impairments (HIs). Specifically, we investigate a scenario where a base station (BS) equipped with multiple fluid antennas communicates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-23 Junteng Yao , Tuo Wu , Liaoshi Zhou , Ming Jin , Cunhua Pan , Maged Elkashlan , Fumiyuki Adachi , George K. Karagiannidis , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Chau Yuen

A heterogenous network with base stations (BSs), small base stations (SBSs) and users distributed according to independent Poisson point processes is considered. SBS nodes are assumed to possess high storage capacity and to form a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 B. N. Bharath , K. G. Nagananda , H. Vincent Poor

Fluid antenna enables position reconfigurability that gives transceiver access to a high-resolution spatial signal and the ability to avoid interference through the ups and downs of fading channels. Previous studies investigated this fluid…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Tianyu Han , Yongxu Zhu , Kai-Kit Wong , Gan Zheng , Hyundong Shin

Caching popular contents at base stations (BSs) of a heterogeneous cellular network (HCN) avoids frequent information passage from content providers to the network edge, thereby reducing latency and alleviating traffic congestion in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Juan Wen , Kaibin Huang , Sheng Yang , Victor O. K. Li

Over the past decades, multiple antenna technologies have appeared in many different forms, most notably as multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), to transform wireless communications for extraordinary diversity and multiplexing gains. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Kai-Kit Wong , Arman Shojaeifard , Kin-Fai Tong , Yangyang Zhang

With the rapid explosion of data volume from mobile networks, edge caching has received significant attentions as an efficient approach to boost content delivery efficiency by bringing contents near users. In this article, cache-enabled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Congshan Fan , Tiankui Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiming Zeng

We consider a network model where small base stations (SBSs) have caching capabilities as a means to alleviate the backhaul load and satisfy users' demand. The SBSs are stochastically distributed over the plane according to a Poisson point…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Ejder Baştuğ , Mehdi Bennis , Marios Kountouris , Mérouane Debbah

This paper proposes a novel fluid antenna system (FAS)-enabled architecture to improve energy efficiency (EE) without sacrificing capacity. Specifically, we integrate FAS into cell-free massive MIMO systems to counteract low-resolution…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jun Qian , Ross Murch , Khaled B. Letaief

Content caching at small-cell base stations (SBSs) is a promising method to mitigate the excessive backhaul load and delay, particularly for on-demand video streaming applications. A cache-enabled heterogeneous cellular network architecture…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Emre Ozfatura , Deniz Gunduz

In milimeter wave heterogenous networks with integrated access and backhaul (mABHetNets), a considerable part of spectrum resources are occupied by the backhaul link, which limits the performance of the access link. In order to overcome…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Chenwu Zhang , Hancheng Lu , Zhuojia Gu

Caching contents at the network edge is an efficient mean for offloading traffic, reducing latency and improving users' quality-of-experience. In this letter, we focus on aspects of storage-bandwidth tradeoffs in which small cell base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Syed Tamoor-ul-Hassan , Mehdi Bennis , Pedro H. J. Nardelli , Matti Latva-Aho