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Given a dataset of points in a metric space and an integer $k$, a diversity maximization problem requires determining a subset of $k$ points maximizing some diversity objective measure, e.g., the minimum or the average distance between two…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Matteo Ceccarello , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci , Eli Upfal

In this paper, the proportionally fair allocation of time slots in a frame, as well as power level to multiple receivers in an energy harvesting broadcast system, is considered. Energy harvest times in a frame are assumed to be known at the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Neyre Tekbiyik , Tolga Girici , Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu , Kemal Leblebicioglu

Balancing throughput and fairness promises to be a key enabler for achieving large-scale digital inclusion in future vertical heterogeneous networks (VHetNets). In an attempt to address the global digital divide problem, this paper explores…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Shasha Liu , Hayssam Dahrouj , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper addresses coordinated downlink beamforming optimization in multicell time-division duplex (TDD) systems where a small number of parameters are exchanged between cells but with no data sharing. With the goal to reach the point on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yongming Huang , Gan Zheng , Mats Bengtsson , Kai-Kit Wong , Luxi Yang , Bjorn Ottersten

Stream fairness, fairness between all streams in the system, is a more restrictive condition than sub-stream fairness, fairness between all streams of each user. Thus sub-stream fairness alleviates utility loss as well as complexity and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Cenk M. Yetis , Yong Zeng , Kushal Anand , Yong Liang Guan , Erry Gunawan

From an information-theoretic point of view, we investigate the min-max power scheduling problem in multi-access transmission. We prove that the min-max optimal vector in a contrapolymatroid is the base with the minimal distance to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Xiaomao Mao , Huifang Chen , Peiliang Qiu

In this paper, the problem of maximizing the sum of data rates of all users in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter wave multicast multiple-input multiple-output communication system is studied. In the considered…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-16 Songling Zhang , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Danpu Liu , Kai-Kit Wong , H. Vincent Poor

We consider the communication scenario where multiple cognitive users wish to communicate to the same receiver, in the presence of primary transmission. The cognitive transmitters are assumed to have the side information about the primary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Peng Cheng , Guanding Yu , Zhaoyang Zhang , Hsiao-Hwa Chen , Peiliang Qiu

This work studies the joint beamforming design problem of achieving max-min rate fairness in a satellite-terrestrial integrated network (STIN) where the satellite provides wide coverage to multibeam multicast satellite users (SUs), and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Longfei Yin , Bruno Clerckx

This paper studies a wireless network consisting of multiple transmitter-receiver pairs sharing the same spectrum where interference is regarded as noise. Previously, the throughput region of such a network was characterized for either one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Yirui Cong , Xiangyun Zhou , Rodney A. Kennedy

A multi-antenna transmitter that conveys independent sets of common data to distinct groups of users is herein considered, a model known as physical layer multicasting to multiple co-channel groups. In the recently proposed context of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Dimitrios Christopoulos , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

We study the problem of user-scheduling and resource allocation in distributed multi-user, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks implementing user-centric clustering and non-coherent transmission. We formulate a weighted sum-rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Hussein A. Ammar , Raviraj Adve , Shahram Shahbazpanahi , Gary Boudreau , Kothapalli Srinivas

In this paper, we consider the energy-bandwidth allocation for a network with multiple broadcast channels, where the transmitters access the network orthogonally on the assigned frequency band and each transmitter communicates with multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-13 Zhe Wang , Vaneet Aggarwal , Xiaodong Wang

We study the secrecy rate maximization problem in a millimeter wave (mmWave) network, consisting of a base station (BS), multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) (or reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)), multiple users, and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Anahid Rafieifar , Hosein Ahmadinejad , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh , Jiguang He

The present work focuses on the forward link of a broadband multibeam satellite system that aggressively reuses the user link frequency resources. Two fundamental practical challenges, namely the need to frame multiple users per…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Dimitrios Christopoulos , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

This paper focuses on studying orthogonal and non-orthogonal multiple access in intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided systems. Unlike most prior works assuming continuous phase shifts, we employ the practical setup where only a finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

Users in millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems often exhibit diverse channel strengths, which can negatively impact user fairness in resource allocation. Moreover, exact channel state information (CSI) may not be available at the transmitter,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-22 Ahmed Magbool , Vaibhav Kumar , Mark F. Flanagan

We consider the problem of transmit beamforming to multiple cochannel multicast groups. The conventional approach is to beamform a designated data stream to each group, while treating potential inter-group interference as noise at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Hamdi Joudeh , Bruno Clerckx

Diversity maximization is a fundamental problem in web search and data mining. For a given dataset $S$ of $n$ elements, the problem requires to determine a subset of $S$ containing $k\ll n$ "representatives" which minimize some diversity…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Matteo Ceccarello , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci

Stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM) is an emerging technology that uses multiple reconfigurable surface layers to enable flexible wave-based beamforming. In this paper, we focus on an \ac{SIM}-assisted multi-user multiple-input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-22 Nipuni Ginige , Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa , Arthur Sousa de Sena , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho