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In this letter, precoding for max-min fairness (MMF) for multi-group multicasting with a common message is studied. The MMF problem is converted into a weighted mean square error minimization problem. A rate-splitting solution is proposed.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Ahmet Zahid Yalcin , Melda Yuksel , Bruno Clerckx

In this paper, we investigate the joint beamforming and power splitting design problem in a base station (BS) cluster-based cloud radio access network (C-RAN) with multicast fronthaul, where users are jointly served by BSs within each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Wanming Hao , Gangcan Sun , Ming Zeng , Zhengyu Zhu , Bin Jiang , Shouyi Yang

The problem of resource allocation is studied for a two-user fading orthogonal multiaccess relay channel (MARC) where both users (sources) communicate with a destination in the presence of a relay. A half-duplex relay is considered that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Lalitha Sankar , Yingbin Liang , H. Vincent Poor , Narayan B. Mandayam

A general inner bound is given for the discrete memoryless broadcast channel with an arbitrary number of users and general message sets, a setting that accounts for the most general form of concurrent groupcasting, with messages intended…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Henry Romero , Mahesh K. Varanasi

The max-min fairness (MMF) problem in rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) is known to be challenging due to its non-convex and non-smooth nature, as well as the coupled beamforming and common rate variables. Conventional algorithms to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Facheng Luo , Yijie Mao

A network where three users want to establish multiple unicasts between each other via a relay is considered. This network is called the Y-channel and resembles an elemental ingredient of future wireless networks. The sum-capacity of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Anas Chaaban , Aydin Sezgin , A. Salman Avestimehr

We consider a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) interference channel (IC), where a single data stream per user is transmitted and each receiver treats interference as noise. The paper focuses on the open problem of computing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Pan Cao , Eduard A. Jorswieck , Shuying Shi

In this work, two problems associated with a downlink multi-user system are considered with the aid of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS): weighted sum-rate maximization and weighted minimal-rate maximization. For the first problem, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Liyue Zhang , Qing Wang , Haozhi Wang , Peng Chen , Hua Chen , Wei Liu , Zhiqiang Wu

In this paper, we study the capacity of the two-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) linear deterministic interference channel (IC), with possible correlations within/between the channel matrices. The capacity region is characterized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-10 Xiaoli Xu , Yong Zeng , Yong Liang Guan , Tracey Ho

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) represent a new technology that can shape the radio wave propagation and thus offers a great variety of possible performance and implementation gains. Motivated by this, we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Nemanja Stefan Perović , Le-Nam Tran , Marco Di Renzo , Mark F. Flanagan

For multiuser MISO systems with bounded uncertainties in the Channel State Information (CSI), we consider two classical robust design problems: maximizing the minimum rate subject to a transmit power constraint, and power minimization under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-21 Hamdi Joudeh , Bruno Clerckx

Multi-access networks may exhibit severe unfairness in throughput. Recent studies show that this unfairness is due to local differences in the neighborhood structure: Nodes with less neighbors receive better access. We study the unfairness…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-04-08 P. M. van de Ven , J. S. H. van Leeuwaarden , D. Denteneer , A. J. E. M. Janssen

Treating the interference as noise in the n-user interference channel, the paper describes a novel approach to the rates region, composed by the time-sharing convex hull of 2^n-1 corner points achieved through On/Off binary power control.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-24 Mohamad Charafeddine , Zhu Han , Arogyaswami Paulraj , John Cioffi

A multiple-input single-output cognitive radio downlink network is studied with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer. In this network, a secondary user coexists with multiple primary users and multiple energy harvesting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-29 Fuhui Zhou , Zan Li , Julian Cheng , Qunwei Li , Jiangbo Si

Energy efficiency is an important design criterion for wireless communications. When parallel frequency channels are used for multiuser transmission, the channel bandwidths and user power are adjusted to maximize the sum information rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Liang Dong , Xing Meng

We investigate a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output interference network in the presence of multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). The entire system is described by using a circuit-based model for the transmitters,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Andrea Abrardo , Davide Dardari , Marco Di Renzo , Xuewen Qian

We consider a setting in which a group of agents share resources that must be allocated among them in each discrete time period. Agents have time-varying demands and derive constant marginal utility from each unit of resource received up to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Seyed Majid Zahedi , Rupert Freeman

This work focuses on the promising Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) and its beamforming design problem to achieve max-min fairness (MMF) among multiple co-channel multicast groups with imperfect channel state information at the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 Longfei Yin , Bruno Clerckx

A challenging problem in multi-band multi-cell self-organized wireless systems, such as multi-channel Wi-Fi networks, femto/pico cells in 3G/4G cellular networks, and more recent wireless networks over TV white spaces, is of distributed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-02-15 I-Hong Hou , Piyush Gupta

This paper studies the precoder design problem of achieving max-min fairness (MMF) amongst users in multigateway multibeam satellite communication systems with feeder link interference. We propose a beamforming strategy based on a newly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Zhi Wen Si , Longfei Yin , Bruno Clerckx