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Energy efficiency is a growing concern for wireless networks, not only due to the emerging traffic demand from smart devices, but also because of the dependence on the traditional unsustainable energy and the overall environmental concerns.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Xueqing Huang , Nirwan Ansari

Heterogeneity in wireless network architectures (i.e., the coexistence of 3G, LTE, 5G, WiFi, etc.) has become a key component of current and future generation cellular networks. Simultaneous aggregation of each client's traffic across…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Ehsan Aryafar , Alireza Keshavarz-Haddad , Carlee Joe-Wong

MIMO systems in the lower part of the millimeter-wave spectrum band (i.e., below 28 GHz) do not exhibit enough directivity and selectively, as their counterparts in higher bands of the spectrum (i.e., above 60 GHz), and thus still suffer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Hadi Ghauch , Taejoon Kim , Mats Bengtsson , Mikael Skoglund

In a centralized or cloud radio access network, certain portions of the digital baseband processing of a group of several radio access points are executed at a central data center. Centralizing the processing improves the flexibility,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-08-25 Peter Rost , Andreas Maeder , Matthew C. Valenti , Salvatore Talarico

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have emerged as a practical solution that provides on-demand services to users in areas where the terrestrial network is non-existent or temporarily unavailable, e.g., due to natural disasters or network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Asad Mahmood , Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

The increasingly diversified Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements envisioned for future wireless networks call for more flexible and inclusive multiple access techniques for supporting emerging applications and communication scenarios. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Jie Mei , Wudan Han , Xianbin Wang , H. Vincent Poor

Mobile edge computing (MEC) integrated with multiple radio access technologies (RATs) is a promising technique for satisfying the growing low-latency computation demand of emerging intelligent internet of things (IoT) applications. Under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Feng Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau

Multicast short video streaming can enhance bandwidth utilization by enabling simultaneous video transmission to multiple users over shared wireless channels. The existing network management schemes mainly rely on the sequential buffering…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Xinyu Huang , Shisheng Hu , Haojun Yang , Xinghan Wang , Yingying Pei , Xuemin Shen

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can be densely deployed in complex environments to create cascaded line-of-sight (LoS) links between base stations (BSs) and users, which significantly enhance the signal coverage. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Weidong Mei , Zhi Chen , Rui Zhang

The joint user association and spectrum allocation problem is studied for multi-tier heterogeneous networks (HetNets) in both downlink and uplink in the interference-limited regime. Users are associated with base-stations (BSs) based on the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yicheng Lin , Wei Bao , Wei Yu , Ben Liang

This paper studies optimal bandwidth and power allocation in a cognitive radio network where multiple secondary users (SUs) share the licensed spectrum of a primary user (PU) under fading channels using the frequency division multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Xiaowen Gong , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Chintha Tellambura

This paper considers the problem of cost-aware downlink sum-rate maximization via joint optimal radio access technologies (RATs) assignment and power allocation in next-generation heterogeneous wireless networks (HetNets). We consider a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Abdulmalik Alwarafy , Bekir Sait Ciftler , Mohamed Abdallah , Mounir Hamdi , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Airborne Base Stations (ABSs) allow for flexible geographical allocation of network resources with dynamically changing load as well as rapid deployment of alternate connectivity solutions during natural disasters. Since the radio…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Mauro Belgiovine , Chris Dick , Kaushik Chowdhury

In a cloud radio access network (C-RAN), distributed remote radio heads (RRHs) are coordinated by baseband units (BBUs) in the cloud. The centralization of signal processing provides flexibility for coordinated multi-point transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Lei You , Di Yuan

Device-to-device (D2D) communications can result in spectral efficiency (SE) improvement of cellular networks when interference is addressed properly. For further improvement of overall network sum-rate, it can be assumed that multiple D2D…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Mohammad Hossein Bahonar , Mohammad Javad Omidi

This paper considers the unavailability of complete channel state information (CSI) in ultra-dense cloud radio access networks (C-RANs). The user-centric cluster is adopted to reduce the computational complexity, while the incomplete CSI is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Cunhua Pan , Hani Mehrpouyan , Yuanwei Liu , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan

In this paper, we propose an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) enabled hybrid relaying scheme for a multi-antenna wireless powered communication network (WPCN), where the active RIS is employed to assist both wireless energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Jie Jiang , Bin Lyu , Pengcheng Chen , Zhen Yang

In this paper, we study the resource allocation algorithm design for downlink multicarrier transmission with a shared user equipment (UE)-side distributed antenna system (SUDAS) which utilizes both licensed and unlicensed frequency bands…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Marco Breiling , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Christian Rohde , Frank Burkhardt , Robert Schober

Benefiting from its capability to generalize existing reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) architectures and provide additional design flexibility via interactions between RIS elements, beyond-diagonal RIS (BD-RIS) has attracted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Xiaohua Zhou , Tianyu Fang , Yijie Mao

This letter studies joint transmit beamforming and antenna selection at a secondary base station (BS) with multiple primary users (PUs) in an underlay cognitive radio multiple-input single-output broadcast channel. The objective is to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Van-Dinh Nguyen , Chuyen T. Nguyen , Hieu V. Nguyen , Oh-Soon Shin