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Wireless local area network (WLAN) access points (APs) are being deployed in high density to improve coverage and throughput. The emerging multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) implementation for uplink (UL) transmissions promises high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Phillip B. Oni , Steven D. Blostein

In this paper, we propose a novel social network aware approach for user association in wireless small cell networks. The proposed approach exploits social relationships between user equipments (UEs) and their physical proximity to optimize…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Muhammad Ikram Ashraf , Mehdi Bennis , Walid Saad , Marcos Katz

Heterogeneous ultra-dense network (HUDN) can significantly increase the spectral efficiency of cellular networks and cater for the explosive growth of data traffic in the fifth-generation (5G) communications. Due to the dense deployment of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song , Yonghui Li , Geoffrey Ye Li

Deep learning is widely used in wireless communications but struggles with fixed neural network sizes, which limit their adaptability in environments where the number of users and antennas varies. To overcome this, this paper introduced a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Mingjun Sun , Shaochuan Wu , Haojie Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Guoyu Li , Tong Zhang

A scalable framework is developed to allocate radio resources across a large number of densely deployed small cells with given traffic statistics on a slow timescale. Joint user association and spectrum allocation is first formulated as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Binnan Zhuang , Dongning Guo , Ermin Wei , Michael L. Honig

Wireless networks are inherently graph-structured, which can be utilized in graph representation learning to solve complex wireless network optimization problems. In graph representation learning, feature vectors for each entity in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Maryam Mohsenivatani , Samad Ali , Vismika Ranasinghe , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-Aho

In recent years, with the rapid enhancement of computing power, deep learning methods have been widely applied in wireless networks and achieved impressive performance. To effectively exploit the information of graph-structured data as well…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-19 S. He , S. Xiong , Y. Ou , J. Zhang , J. Wang , Y. Huang , Y. Zhang

The service provided by mobile networks operated today is not adapted to spatio-temporal fluctuations in traffic demand, although such fluctuations offer opportunities for energy savings. In particular, significant gains in energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Emmanuel Pollakis , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Sławomir Stańczak

We study network utility maximization (NUM) in the context of cellular single station association (SSA) policies, which assigns each mobile user (MU) to a single base station (BS). We measure an SSA policy in terms of the induced…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-10-22 Jeffrey Wildman , Steven Weber

Given the proven benefits cell densification brings in terms of capacity and coverage, it is certain that 5G networks will be even more heterogeneous and dense. However, as smaller cells are introduced in the network, interference will…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Zana Limani Fazliu , Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini , Gian Michele Dell'Aera , Enver Hamiti

How would a cellular network designed for maximal energy efficiency look like? To answer this fundamental question, tools from stochastic geometry are used in this paper to model future cellular networks and obtain a new lower bound on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti , Marios Kountouris

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication technologies have recently emerged as an attractive solution to meet the exponentially increasing demand on mobile data traffic. Moreover, ultra dense networks (UDNs) combined with mmWave technology…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-25 H. Zhang , S. Huang , C. Jiang , K. Long , V. C. M. Leung , H. Vincent Poor

The energy efficiency aspect of cellular networks is a vital topic of research over the recent days. As energy consumption is on the rise and the price of electricity is increasing very rapidly, necessity to reduce electricity usage in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Imtiaz Nasim , Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury , Md. Syadus Sefat

Network densification and heterogenisation through the deployment of small cellular access points (picocells and femtocells) are seen as key mechanisms in handling the exponential increase in cellular data traffic. Modelling such networks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Pete Pratt , Carl P. Dettmann , Orestis Georgiou

The development of mobile virtual network operators, where multiple wireless technologies (e.g. 3G and 4G) or operators with non-overlapping bandwidths are pooled and shared is expected to provide enhanced service with broader coverage,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Abishek Sankararaman , Jeong-woo Cho , Francois Baccelli

Mobility performance has been a key focus in cellular networks up to 5G. To enhance handover (HO) performance, 3GPP introduced Conditional Handover (CHO) and Layer 1/Layer 2 Triggered Mobility (LTM) mechanisms in 5G. While these reactive HO…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ana Gonzalez Bermudez , Miquel Farreras , Milan Groshev , José Antonio Trujillo , Isabel de la Bandera , Raquel Barco

This paper proposes an approach that leverages multimodal data by integrating visual images with radio frequency (RF) pilots to optimize user association and beamforming in a downlink wireless cellular network under a max-min fairness…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Yinghan Li , Yiming Liu , Wei Yu

To solve the problem that the low capacity in hot-spots and coverage holes of conventional cellular networks, the base stations (BSs) having lower transmit power are deployed to form heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets). However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Tianqing Zhou , Yongming Huang , Luxi Yang

One of the ways of achieving improved capacity in mobile cellular networks is via network densification. Even though densification increases the capacity of the network, it also leads to increased energy consumption which can be curbed by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Attai Ibrahim Abubakar , Cihat Ozturk , Metin Ozturk , Michael S. Mollel , Syed Muhammad Asad , Naveed Ul Hassan , Sajjad Hussain , MuhammadAli Imran

Graph neural networks (GNN) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various industrial tasks. However, the poor efficiency of GNN inference and frequent Out-Of-Memory (OOM) problem limit the successful application of GNN on edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Ao Zhou , Jianlei Yang , Yeqi Gao , Tong Qiao , Yingjie Qi , Xiaoyi Wang , Yunli Chen , Pengcheng Dai , Weisheng Zhao , Chunming Hu