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We consider a user-centric co-operative cellular network, where base stations (BSs) close to a mobile co-operate to detect its signal using a (joint) linear minimum-mean-square-error receiver. The BSs are at arbitrary positions and mobiles…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Siddhartan Govindasamy , Itsik Bergel

This letter considers the problem of joint user association (UA), sub-channel assignment, antenna selection (AS), and power control in the uplink (UL) of a heterogeneous network such that the data rate of small cell users can be maximized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Ata Khalili , Soroush Akhlaghi , Hina Tabassum , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

In this paper, we investigate the uplink signal detection approaches in the cell-free massive MIMO systems with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serving as aerial access points (APs). The ground users are equipped with multiple antennas and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Xuesong Pan , Zhong Zheng , Xueqing Huang , Zesong Fei

The spectral efficiency of a representative uplink of a given length, in interference-limited, spatially-distributed wireless networks with hexagonal cells, simple power control, and multiantenna linear Minimum-Mean-Square-Error receivers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Siddhartan Govindasamy , Daniel W. Bliss , David H. Staelin

Recently, the pinching antenna systems (PASS) have attracted significant attention due to their ability to exploit dynamically reconfigurable pinching points along waveguides for flexible signal transmission. However, existing work largely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Ali Amhaz , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafeddine

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) enables fast data aggregation for edge intelligence applications. However the performance of AirComp can be severely degraded by channel misalignments. Pinching antenna systems (PASS) have recently emerged…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zhonghao Lyu , Haoyun Li , Yulan Gao , Ming Xiao , H. Vincent Poor

The objective of this paper is to develop simple techniques to enhance the performance of multi-user RIS aided wireless systems. Specifically, we develop a novel technique called \textit{channel separation} which provides a better…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Ikram Singh , Peter J. Smith , Pawel A. Dmochowski , Rua Murray

This letter shows that the flexible association of possibly multiple base stations (BSs) to each user over multiple frequency bands, along with the joint optimization of BS transmit power that encourages the turning-off of the BSs at…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Kaiming Shen , Ya-Feng Liu , David Yiwei Ding , Wei Yu

Joint unicast and multicast transmissions are becoming increasingly important in practical wireless systems, such as Internet of Things networks. This paper investigates a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output system that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Mustafa S. Abbas , Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Hyundong Shin , Michail Matthaiou

User pairing in Non-Orthogonal Multiple-Access (NOMA) uplink based on channel state information is investigated considering some predefined power allocation schemes. The base station divides the set of users into disjunct pairs and assigns…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Mohammad A. Sedaghat , Ralf R. Müller

The Pinching Antenna System (PAS) has emerged as a promising technology to dynamically reconfigure wireless propagation environments in 6G networks. By activating radiating elements at arbitrary positions along a dielectric waveguide, PAS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Yu Hua , Yaru Fu , Yalin Liu , Zheng Shi , Kevin Hung

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

Large multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks promise high energy efficiency, i.e., much less power is required to achieve the same capacity compared to the conventional MIMO networks if perfect channel state information (CSI) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 An Liu , Vincent Lau

The pinching-antenna systems (PASS), which activate small dielectric particles along a dielectric waveguide, has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for flexible antenna deployment in next-generation wireless communication networks.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Han Zhang , Bingxin Zhang , Yizhe Zhao , Kun Yang , Guopeng Zhang

In this paper, we consider an uplink heterogeneous cloud radio access network (H-CRAN), where a macro base station (BS) coexists with many remote radio heads (RRHs). For cost-savings, only the BS is connected to the baseband unit (BBU) pool…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Wenchao Xia , Jun Zhang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Shi Jin , Hongbo Zhu

This paper investigates a novel downlink symbiotic radio framework enabled by the pinching antenna system (PASS), designed to enhance both primary and secondary transmissions through reconfigurable antenna positioning. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Ze Wang , Guoping Zhang , Hongbo Xu , Wei Liu , Ming Zeng , Fang Fang , Dusit Niyato

Rotatable antenna (RA) enhances wireless coverage through directional gain steering, yet suffers from performance degradation under physical blockages. Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) establishes reflective paths to bypass obstacles,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Guoying Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Ziyuan Zheng , Qiaoyan Peng , Yanze Zhu , Wen Chen , Penghui Huang

When implementing hierarchical federated learning over wireless networks, scalability assurance and the ability to handle both interference and device data heterogeneity are crucial. This work introduces a new two-level learning method…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Viktoria Fodor

Pinching antenna systems (PASS) present a breakthrough among the flexible-antenna technologies, and distinguish themselves by facilitating large-scale antenna reconfiguration, line-of-sight creation, scalable implementation, and near-field…

Future wireless networks are expected to support increasingly high data rates and user densities, motivating advanced multi-antenna architectures capable of adapting to dynamic propagation environments. Movable antenna (MA) arrays have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Amna Irshad , Emil Björnson , Alva Kosasih , Vitaly Petrov