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In multi-user wireless packet networks interference, typically modeled as packet collision, is the throughput bottleneck. Users become aware of the interference pattern via feedback and use this information for contention resolution and for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Alireza Vahid , Robert Calderbank

Cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output is considered a promising technology for the next generation of wireless communication networks. The main idea is to distribute a large number of access points (APs) in a geographical region…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Andreas Angelou , Pourya Behmandpoor , Marc Moonen

This paper presents a generalized closed-form beamforming technique that can achieve the maximum degrees of freedom in compounded multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) broadcast channels with mixed classes of multiple-antenna users. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Galymzhan Nauryzbayev , Emad Alsusa , Mohamed Abdallah

Inter-cell interference is one of the main limiting factors in current Heterogeneous Cellular Networks (HCNs). Uplink Fractional Power Control (FPC) is a well known method that aims to cope with such limiting factor as well as to save…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Francisco J. Martin-Vega , Gerardo Gomez , Mari Carmen Aguayo-Torres , Marco Di Renzo

Cell-free massive MIMO is a key 6G technology, offering superior spectral and energy efficiency. However, its dense deployment of low-cost access points (APs) makes hardware impairments unavoidable. While narrowband impairments are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Muhammed Selman Somuncu , Ahmet M. Elbir , Emil Björnson

The cell-free architecture represents a significant advancement in network design, where each User Equipment (UE) is served by a group of distributed Access Points (APs), aimed at delivering uniformly high data rates to UEs across all…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ala Eddine Nouali , Mohamed Sana , Jean-Paul Jamont

Large-scale distributed Multiuser MIMO (MU-MIMO) is a promising wireless network architecture that combines the advantages of "massive MIMO" and "small cells." It consists of several Access Points (APs) connected to a central server via a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-04-02 Ryan Rogalin , Ozgun Bursalioglu , Haralabos Papadopoulos , Giuseppe Caire , Andreas Molisch , Antonios Michaloliakos , Vlad Balan , Konstantinos Psounis

The impressive growth of wireless data networks has recently led to increased attention to the issue of electromagnetic pollution. Specific absorption rates and incident power densities have become popular indicators for measuring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Sergi Liesegang , Stefano Buzzi

In this work, we propose a clustering technique based on information rates for cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks. Unlike existing clustering approaches that rely on the large scale fading coefficients of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-30 S. Mashdour , R. C. de Lamare

Interference shapes the interplay between capacity and coverage in cellular networks. However, interference is non-deterministic and depends on various system and channel parameters including user scheduling, frequency reuse, and fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-16 Naeem Akl , Jihad Fahs , Zaher Dawy

The physical layer foundations of cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) have been well-established. As a next step, researchers are investigating practical and energy-efficient network implementations. This paper focuses on multiple sets of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Lianet Méndez-Monsanto , Nicola Bastianello , Emma Fitzgerald , Gilles Callebaut

In the cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) system, the centralized transmission scheme is widely adopted to manage the inter-user interference. Unfortunately, its implementation is limited by the extensive signaling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Hongkang Yu , Xinquan Ye , Yijian Chen

Low-Power Wide-Area Networks operating in the unlicensed bands are being deployed to connect a rapidly growing number of Internet-of-Things devices. While the unlicensed sub-GHz band offers favorable propagation for long-range connections,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Gilles Callebaut , Sara Gunnarsson , Andrea P. Guevara , Fredrik Tufvesson , Sofie Pollin , Liesbet Van der Perre , Anders J Johansson

We introduce a unified framework for analyzing utility regions of wireless networks, with a focus on signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) and achievable rate regions. The framework provides valuable insights into interference…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Renato Luis Garrido Cavalcante , Tomasz Piotrowski , Slawomir Stanczak

Coming cellular systems are envisioned to open up to new services with stringent reliability and energy efficiency requirements. In this paper we focus on the joint power control and rate allocation problem in Single-Input Multiple-Output…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Onel L. Alcaraz López , Hirley Alves , Matti Latva-aho

We consider the problem of cross-layer resource allocation in time-varying cellular wireless networks, and incorporate information theoretic secrecy as a Quality of Service constraint. Specifically, each node in the network injects two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 C. Emre Koksal , Ozgur Ercetin , Yunus Sarikaya

Small cells deployed in licensed spectrum and unlicensed access via WiFi provide different ways of expanding wireless services to low mobility users. That reduces the demand for conventional macro-cellular networks, which are better suited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Cheng Chen , Randall A. Berry , Michael L. Honig , Vijay G. Subramanian

The mobile data traffic has been exponentially growing during the last decades, which has been enabled by the densification of the network infrastructure in terms of increased cell density (i.e., ultra-dense network (UDN)) and/or increased…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Shuaifei Chen , Jiayi Zhang , Jing Zhang , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are cellular networks where the base stations (BSs) are equipped with unconventionally many antennas. Such large antenna arrays offer huge spatial degrees-of-freedom for transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-20 Emil Björnson , Michail Matthaiou , Mérouane Debbah

We study the problem of interference management in large-scale small cell networks, where each user equipment (UE) needs to determine in a distributed manner when and at what power level it should transmit to its serving small cell base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Kartik Ahuja , Yuanzhang Xiao , Mihaela van der Schaar