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This paper studies the coordinated beamforming design problem for the multiple-input single-output (MISO) interference channel, assuming only channel distribution information (CDI) at the transmitters. Under a given requirement on the rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Wei-Chiang Li , Tsung-Hui Chang , Che Lin , Chong-Yung Chi

Massive MIMO is one of the key technologies to support the growth of massive access attempts by devices, such as in massive machine type communication (mMTC). The evolution of antenna array technology brought the recent extra-large scale…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-02 Thiago Augusto Bruza Alves , Taufik Abrão

Recently, it has been shown that CSMA-type random access algorithms can achieve the maximum possible throughput in ad hoc wireless networks. However, these algorithms assume an idealized continuous-time CSMA protocol where collisions can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Jian Ni , Bo Tan , R. Srikant

Unsourced random access (URA) is an increasingly popular communication paradigm attuned to machine driven data transfers in \textit{Internet-of-Things} (IoT) networks. In a typical URA setting, a small subset of active devices within a very…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Krishna R. Narayanan

The growing demand for low-latency computing in 6G is driving the use of UAV-based low-altitude mobile edge computing (MEC) systems. However, limited spectrum often leads to severe uplink interference among ground terminals (GTs). In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Xudong Wang , Hongyang Du , Lei Feng , Kaibin Huang

Timing advance (TA) estimation at the base station (BS) and reliable decoding of random access response (RAR) at the users are the most important steps in the initial random access (RA) procedure. However, due to the limited availability of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Sudarshan Mukherjee , Alok Kumar Sinha , Saif Khan Mohammed

Over the past few years, the prevalence of wireless devices has become one of the essential sources of electromagnetic (EM) radiation to the public. Facing with the swift development of wireless communications, people are skeptical about…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Hanyu Jiang , Li You , Ahmed Elzanaty , Jue Wang , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

As mission- and safety-critical wireless applications grow in complexity and diversity, next-generation wireless systems must meet increasingly stringent and multifaceted requirements. These systems demand resilience along with enhanced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Yasemin Karacora , Christina Chaccour , Aydin Sezgin , Walid Saad

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) provides good interference management by coordinating many more access points (APs) than user equipments (UEs). It becomes challenging to determine which APs should serve which UEs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Shuaifei Chen , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai

Space-Division Multiple Access (SDMA) utilizes linear precoding to separate users in the spatial domain and relies on fully treating any residual multi-user interference as noise. Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) uses linearly precoded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Yijie Mao , Bruno Clerckx , Victor O. K. Li

Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) has recently appeared as a powerful and robust multiple access and interference management strategy for downlink Multi-user (MU) multi-antenna communications. In this work, we study the precoder design…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Anup Mishra , Yijie Mao , Onur Dizdar , Bruno Clerckx

This paper describes a radio architecture for distributed spectrum sharing of multiple channels among secondary users (SUs) in a wide band of frequencies and a localized area. A novel Multichannel Immediate Multiple Access (MIMA) physical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Mingming Cai , J. Nicholas Laneman

This paper investigates pilot assignment and access point (AP) selection strategies for uplink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems. We propose channel similarity-aware pilot assignment (CAPA) and AP selection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Saeed Mohammadzadeh , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Pei Liu , Hien Quoc Ngo

Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA), relying on linearly precoded rate-splitting (RS) at the transmitter and successive interference cancellation (SIC) at the receivers has emerged as a powerful and flexible multiple access strategy for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Longfei Yin , Onur Dizdar , Bruno Clerckx

We address the problem of resource allocation (RA) for spectrum underlay in a cognitive radio (CR) communication system with multiple secondary operators sharing resource with an incumbent primary operator. The multiple secondary operator…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-07 Ehsan Tohidi , David Gesbert , Antonio Bazco-Nogueras , Paul de Kerret

The unprecedented growth of internet contents, specially social media, invoking a challenge to the load of cellular networks. In addition, nowadays, the demands of quality of experience (QoE) became a more practical norm in contrast of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Sepehr Rezvani , Nader Mokari , Mohammad R. Javan

How to meet the demand for increasing number of users, higher data rates, and stringent quality-of-service (QoS) in the beyond fifth-generation (B5G) networks? Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is considered as a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-19 Shuaifei Chen , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Jing Zhang , Bo Ai

One of the major challenges with cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks is providing backhaul links for a large number of distributed access points (APs). In general, providing fiber optics backhaul for these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Ali Hosseinalipour Jazi , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh , Tommy Svensson

We propose a high-performance yet low-complexity hierarchical frequency synchronization scheme for orthogonal frequency-division multiple-access (OFDMA) aided distributed massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems, where multi-ple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Xiao-Yang Wang , Shaoshi Yang , Tian-Hao Yuan , Hou-Yu Zhai , Jianhua Zhang , Lajos Hanzo

We propose a novel random access (RA) protocol that accounts for the network traffic in mixed URLLC-mMTC scenarios. By considering an IoT environment under high mMTC traffic demand, we model the traffic of each service using realistic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-14 Herman L. dos Santos , João H. I. Souza , José Carlos Marinello , Taufik Abrão