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WiFi networks have achieved remarkable success in enabling seamless communication and data exchange worldwide. The IEEE 802.11be standard, known as WiFi 7, introduces Multi-Link Operation (MLO), a groundbreaking feature that enables devices…
The exponential increase of wireless devices with highly demanding services such as streaming video, gaming and others has imposed several challenges to Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). In the context of Wi-Fi, IEEE 802.11ax brings…
Designing efficient channel access schemes for wireless communications without any prior knowledge about the nature of environments has been a very challenging issue, especially when the channel states distribution of all spectrum resources…
This paper proposes a communication-efficient, event-triggered inference framework for cooperative edge AI systems comprising multiple user devices and edge servers. Building upon dual-threshold early-exit strategies for rare-event…
The existing medium access control (MAC) protocol of Wi-Fi networks (i.e., carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA)) suffers from poor performance in dense deployments due to the increasing number of collisions and…
With the emergence of fluid antenna (FA) in wireless communications, the capability to dynamically adjust port positions offers substantial benefits in spatial diversity and spectrum efficiency, which are particularly valuable for mobile…
The forthcoming sixth-generation (6G) mobile network is set to merge edge artificial intelligence (AI) and integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) extensively, giving rise to the new paradigm of edge intelligent sensing (EI-Sense). This…
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) unifies wireless communication and sensing by sharing spectrum and hardware, which often incurs trade-offs between two functions due to limited resources. However, this paper shifts focus to…
The deployment of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) introduces new challenges for resource allocation in multi-cell wireless networks, particularly when user loads are uneven across base stations. In this work, we consider RISs as…
With the increasing complexity of Wi-Fi networks and the iterative evolution of 802.11 protocols, the Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA) protocol faces significant challenges in achieving fair channel access…
This paper investigates a futuristic spectrum sharing paradigm for heterogeneous wireless networks with imperfect channels. In the heterogeneous networks, multiple wireless networks adopt different medium access control (MAC) protocols to…
The ability to perform traffic differentiation is a promising feature of the current Medium Access Control (MAC) in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). The Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) protocol for WLANs proposes up to four…
Carrier sensing multiple access/collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) is the backbone MAC protocol for IEEE 802.11 networks. However, tuning the binary exponential back-off (BEB) mechanism of CSMA/CA in user-dense scenarios so as to maximize…
With the formation of next generation wireless communication, a growing number of new applications like internet of things, autonomous car, and drone is crowding the unlicensed spectrum. Licensed network such as the long-term evolution…
The strength of carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) can be combined with that of time-division multiple access (TDMA) to enhance the channel access performance in wireless networks such as the IEEE…
The continuous evolution of future mobile communication systems is heading towards the integration of communication and computing, with Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) emerging as a crucial means of implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI)…
As artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled wireless communication systems continue their evolution, distributed learning has gained widespread attention for its ability to offer enhanced data privacy protection, improved resource utilization,…
To relieve the traffic burden and improve the system capacity, licensed-assisted access (LAA) has been becoming a promising technology to the supplementary utilization of the unlicensed spectrum. However, due to the densification of small…
We consider a multichannel random access system in which each user accesses a single channel at each time slot to communicate with an access point (AP). Users arrive to the system at random and be activated for a certain period of time…
Optical wireless communication offers unprecedented communication speeds that can support the massive use of the Internet on a daily basis. In indoor environments, optical wireless networks are usually multi-user multiple-input…