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In this paper we consider the issue of energy efficiency in random access networks and show that optimizing transmission probabilities of nodes can enhance network performance in terms of energy consumption and fairness. First, we propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-24 Amir Mahdi Khodaian , Babak H. Khalaj , Mohammad S. Talebi

This paper aims at investigating the achievable performance and the issues that arise in ultra-dense networks (UDNs), when the signal propagation includes both the Line-of-Sight (LOS) and Non-Line-Of-Sight (NLOS) components. Backed by an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Carlo Galiotto , Nuno K. Pratas , Linda Doyle , Nicola Marchetti

In this paper, we study the key properties of multi-antenna two-tier networks under different system configurations. Based on stochastic geometry, we derive the expressions and approximations for the users' average data rate. Through the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Zheng Chen , Ling Qiu , Xiaowen Liang

This paper thoroughly explored the fundamental interactions between cell association, cell load and throughput in a green (energy-efficient) small cell network in which all base stations form a homogeneous Poisson point process (PPP) of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Chun-Hung Liu , Li-Chun Wang

We present a general mathematical framework for optimizing cell deployment and antenna configuration in wireless networks, inspired by quantization theory. Unlike traditional methods, our framework supports networks with deterministically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Saeed Karimi-Bidhendi , Giovanni Geraci , Hamid Jafarkhani

We provide a general framework for the problem of data offloading in a heterogeneous wireless network, where some demand of cellular users is served by a complementary network. The complementary network is either a small-cell network that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Chin Keong Ho , Di Yuan , Sumei Sun

An overview of game-theoretic approaches to energy-efficient resource allocation in wireless networks is presented. Focusing on multiple-access networks, it is demonstrated that game theory can be used as an effective tool to study resource…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Farhad Meshkati , H. Vincent Poor , Stuart C. Schwartz

The interference imposes a significant negative impact on the performance of wireless networks. With the continuous deployment of larger and more sophisticated wireless networks, reducing interference in such networks is quickly being…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-03-31 Maaly Awad Hassan , Andrew Chickadel

The energy consumption of the fifth generation(5G) of mobile networks is one of the major concerns of the telecom industry. However, there is not currently an accurate and tractable approach to evaluate 5G base stations (BSs) power…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Nicola Piovesan , David Lopez-Perez , Antonio De Domenico , Xinli Geng , Harvey Bao , Merouane Debbah

Dense cellular networks (DenseNets) are fast becoming a reality with the rapid deployment of base stations (BSs) aimed at meeting the explosive data traffic demand. In legacy systems however this comes with the penalties of higher network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Arman Shojaeifard , Kai-Kit Wong , Khairi Ashour Hamdi , Emad Alsusa , Daniel K. C. So , Jie Tang

This paper studies the joint user association and resource allocation in heterogeneous networks (HetNets) from a novel perspective, motivated by and generalizing the idea of fractional frequency reuse. By treating the multi-cell multi-user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-11-04 Quan Kuang , Wolfgang Utschick , Andreas Dotzler

In this letter, we investigate the problem of dynamic spectrum access for small cell networks, using a graphical game approach. Compared with existing studies, we take the features of different cell loads and local interference relationship…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yuhua Xu , Chenggui Wang , Junhong Chen , Jinlong Wang , Yitao Xu , Qihui Wu , Alagan Anpalagan

This work presents a machine learning approach to optimize the energy efficiency (EE) in a multi-cell wireless network. This optimization problem is non-convex and its global optimum is difficult to find. In the literature, either simple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Bile Peng , Karl-Ludwig Besser , Ramprasad Raghunath , Eduard A. Jorswieck

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

We study the problem of user association, namely finding the optimal assignment of user equipment to base stations to achieve a targeted network performance. In this paper, we focus on the knowledge transferability of association policies.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Mohamed Sana , Nicola di Pietro , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

How would a cellular network designed for high energy efficiency look like? To answer this fundamental question, we model cellular networks using stochastic geometry and optimize the energy efficiency with respect to the density of base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti , Marios Kountouris

Since their introduction, graph attention networks achieved outstanding results in graph representation learning tasks. However, these networks consider only pairwise relationships among nodes and then they are not able to fully exploit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Lorenzo Giusti , Claudio Battiloro , Lucia Testa , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Stefania Sardellitti , Sergio Barbarossa

We learn optimal user association policies for traffic from different locations to Access Points(APs), in the presence of unknown dynamic traffic demand. We aim at minimizing a broad family of $\alpha$-fair cost functions that express…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Livia Elena Chatzieleftheriou , Apostolos Destounis , Georgios Paschos , Iordanis Koutsopoulos

AC optimal power flow (AC OPF) is a fundamental problem in power system operation and control. Accurately modeling the network physics via the AC power flow equations makes AC OPF a challenging nonconvex problem that results in significant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Nafis Sadik , Mohammad Rasoul Narimani

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been shown promising in improving the efficiency of learning communication policies by leveraging their permutation properties. Nonetheless, existing works design GNNs only for specific wireless policies,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Shengjie Liu , Jia Guo , Chenyang Yang