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Spectrum sharing is an elegant solution to addressing the scarcity of the bandwidth for wireless communications systems. This research studies the feasibility of sharing the spectrum between sectorized cellular systems and stationary radars…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-06-11 Mo Ghorbanzadeh , Ahmed Abdelhadi , Charles Clancy

This paper addresses the slicing of Radio Access Network (RAN) resources by multiple tenants, e.g., virtual wireless operators and service providers. We consider a criterion for dynamic resource allocation amongst tenants, based on a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-01 P. Caballero , A. Banchs , G. de Veciana , X. Costa-Perez

In the conventional information theoretic analysis of multiterminal communication scenarios, it is often assumed that all of the distributed terminals use the communication channel simultaneously. However, in practical wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Shahram Shahsavari , Farhad Shirani , Elza Erkip

This paper is concerned with the proportional fairness (PF) of the spectral efficiency (SE) maximization of uplinks in a cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system in which a large number of single-antenna access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Viet Quoc Pham , Ha Hoang Kha , Le Ty Khanh

The design of a scheduling scheme is crucial for the efficiency and user-fairness of wireless networks. Assuming that the quality of all user channels is available to a central controller, a simple scheme which maximizes the utility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-15 Hui Zhou , Pingyi Fan , Dongning Guo

We introduce a unified framework for analyzing utility regions of wireless networks, with a focus on signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) and achievable rate regions. The framework provides valuable insights into interference…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Renato Luis Garrido Cavalcante , Tomasz Piotrowski , Slawomir Stanczak

The max-min fair (MMF) multicasting problem is known to be NP-hard. In this work, we analytically derive the optimal solution to this NP-hard problem and establish the equivalence between rate balancing and the optimal MMF multicasting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Sadaf Syed , Wolfgang Utschick , Michael Joham

Interference alignment aims to achieve maximum degrees of freedom in an interference system. For achieving Interference alignment in interfering broadcast systems a closed-form solution is proposed in [1] which is an extension of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-20 Gaurav Gupta , Ajit K Chaturvedi

This paper investigates the sum spectral efficiency maximization problem in downlink multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with low-resolution quantizers at an access point (AP) and users. In particular, we consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Seokjun Park , Jinseok Choi , Jeonghun Park , Wonjae Shin , Bruno Clerckx

This paper studies the beamforming design problem to achieve max-min fairness (MMF) in multibeam satellite communications. Contrary to the conventional linear precoding (NoRS) that relies on fully treating any residual interference as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Longfei Yin , Bruno Clerckx

Low-cost passive intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have recently been envisioned as a revolutionary technology capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment through carefully tuning reflection elements. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Zhangjie Peng , Zhenkun Zhang , Cunhua Pan , Li Li , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) has emerged as a flexible and powerful framework for wireless networks. In this paper, we investigate the user fairness of downlink multi-antenna RSMA in short-packet communications with/without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Yunnuo Xu , Yijie Mao , Onur Dizdar , Bruno Clerckx

This paper presents a study on multiple-antenna interference channels, accounting for general overhead as a function of the number of users and antennas in the network. The model includes both perfect and imperfect channel state information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-09 Steven W. Peters , Robert W. Heath

The demand of massive access to the same multimedia content at the same time is one major challenge for next-generation cellular networks in densely-packed urban areas. The content-aware multicast transmission strategies provide promising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Ahmet Zahid Yalcin , Yavuz Yapici

The paper investigates the problem of maximizing expected sum throughput in a fading multiple access cognitive radio network when secondary user (SU) transmitters have energy harvesting capability, and perform cooperative spectrum sensing.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Sinchan Biswas , Amirpasha Shirazinia , Subhrakanti Dey

This paper investigates a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system by considering only the statistical channel state information (CSI) at the base station (BS). We aim to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Huan Zhang , Shaodan Ma , Zheng Shi , Xin Zhao , Guanghua Yang

This article shows that achieving capacity region of a 2-users weak Gaussian Interference Channel (GIC) is equivalent to enlarging the core in a nested set of Polymatroids (each equivalent to capacity region of a multiple-access channel)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Amir K. Khandani

We consider a linear precoder design for an underlay cognitive radio multiple-input multiple-output broadcast channel, where the secondary system consisting of a secondary base-station (BS) and a group of secondary users (SUs) is allowed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Van-Dinh Nguyen , Le-Nam Tran , Trung Q. Duong , Oh-Soon Shin , Ronan Farrell

We present the first investigation into the transmission of multi-stream information from a base station equipped with reconfigurable holographic surfaces (RHS) to multiple users with the aid of multi-antenna arrays. Building upon this, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-23 W. Zhu , H. D. Tuan , E. Dutkiewicz , H. V. Poor , L. Hanzo

A classical result in undirected wireline networks is the near optimality of routing (flow) for multiple-unicast traffic (multiple sources communicating independent messages to multiple destinations): the min cut upper bound is within a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-22 Sreeram Kannan , Pramod Viswanath