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This paper proposes a framework for fast signal acquisition based on deterministic non-uniform sampling, with emphasis on multi-coset architectures and receivers driven by known synchronization sequences, pilots, or preambles. Unlike…
Before establishing a communication link in a cellular network, the user terminal must activate a synchronization procedure called initial cell search in order to acquire specific information about the serving base station. To accomplish…
Initial cell search and selection is one of the first few essential steps that a mobile device must perform to access a mobile network. The distinct features of 5G bring new challenges to the design of initial cell search and selection. In…
5G backscatter communication presents an emerging energy-efficient IoT connectivity solution with enhanced availability and data rate advantages over traditional wireless networks. For 5G backscatter, synchronization is crucial as it…
5G Cell Search (CS) is the first step for user equipment (UE) to initiate the communication with the 5G node B (gNB) every time it is powered ON. In cellular networks, CS is accomplished via synchronization signals (SS) broadcasted by gNB.…
Proliferation of 5G devices and services has driven the demand for wide-scale enhancements ranging from data rate, reliability, and compatibility to sustain the ever increasing growth of the telecommunication industry. In this regard, this…
To achieve high data rates defined in 5G, the use of millimeter-waves and massive-MIMO are indispensable. To benefit from these technologies, an accurate estimation of the channel parameters is crucial. We propose a novel two-stage…
Dense deployment of small cells is seen as one of the major approaches for addressing the traffic demands in next-generation 5G wireless networks. The energy efficiency, however, becomes a key concern together with this massive amount of…
Next generation (5G) cellular networks are expected to be supported by an extensive infrastructure with many-fold increase in the number of cells per unit area compared to today. The total energy consumption of base transceiver stations…
In this work, we propose a hybrid Bayesian approach towards clock offset and skew estimation, thereby synchronizing large scale networks. In particular, we demonstrate the advantage of Bayesian Recursive Filtering (BRF) in alleviating…
Radar sensing will be integrated into the 6G communication system to support various applications. In this integrated sensing and communication system, a radar target may also be a communication channel scatterer. In this case, the radar…
To support millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency bands in cellular communications, both the base station and the mobile platform utilize large antenna arrays to steer narrow beams towards each other to compensate the path loss and improve…
Future cellular networks are intended to have the ability to sense the environment by utilizing reflections of transmitted signals. Multi-dimensional sensing brings along the crucial advantage of being able to resort to multiple domains to…
We consider energy-efficient wireless resource management in cellular networks where BSs are equipped with energy harvesting devices, using statistical information for traffic intensity and harvested energy. The problem is formulated as…
The time of arrival (TOA)-based localization techniques, which need to estimate the delay of the line-of-sight (LoS) path, have been widely employed in location-aware networks. To achieve a high-accuracy delay estimation, a number of…
The evolution of next-generation wireless networks has spurred the vigorous development of the low-altitude economy (LAE). To support this emerging field while remaining compatible with existing network architectures, integrated sensing and…
Ultra-dense deployments in 5G, the next generation of cellular networks, are an alternative to provide ultra-high throughput by bringing the users closer to the base stations. On the other hand, 5G deployments must not incur a large…
The millimeter wave (mmWave) communication uses directional antennas. Hence, achieving fine alignment of transmit and receive beams at the initial access phase is quite challenging and time-consuming. In this paper, we provide a…
This paper proposes a two phase framework to improve the sustainability in vertical heterogeneous networks that integrate various types of base stations~(BSs), including terrestrial macro BSs~(MBSs), small BSs~(SBSs), and a high altitude…
We propose a cell planning scheme to maximize the resource efficiency of a wireless communication network while considering quality-of-service requirements imposed by different mobile services. In dense and heterogeneous cellular 5G…