Search results for: R. Zakhour
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Clinical & Experimental Immunology > 180 > 1 > 108 - 117
Forkhead box protein 3 (FoxP3)+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) are important not only in regulating the development of autoimmune conditions, but also in chronic infectious diseases. Given their cardinal function in suppressing immune activation, research has focused upon whether they play a detrimental role in chronic infections, particularly HIV. While the role of Tregs in HIV has been investigated...
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This paper considers maximizing the network-wide minimum supported rate in the downlink of a two-cell system with symmetric channel statistics, where each base station (BS) is endowed with multiple antennas. This is done for different levels of cell cooperation. At one extreme, we consider single cell processing where the BS is oblivious to interference created at the other cell. At the other, we...
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IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing > 2010 > 58 > 8 > 4298 - 4310
Base station cooperation is an attractive way of increasing the spectral efficiency in multiantenna communication. By serving each terminal through several base stations in a given area, intercell interference can be coordinated and higher performance achieved, especially for terminals at cell edges. Most previous work in the area has assumed that base stations have common knowledge of both data dedicated...
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IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications > 2010 > 9 > 8 > 2444 - 2448
In this letter, we address the problem of distributed multi-antenna cooperative transmission in a cellular system. Most research in this area has so far assumed that base stations not only have the data dedicated to all the users but also share the full channel state information (CSI). In what follows, we assume that each base station (BS) only has local CSI knowledge. We propose a suboptimal, yet...
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This paper considers downlink multiantenna communication with base stations that perform cooperative precoding in a distributed fashion. Most previous work in the area has assumed that transmitters have common knowledge of both data symbols of all users and full or partial channel state information (CSI). Herein, we assume that each base station only has local CSI, either instantaneous or statistical...
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Coordination in a multi-cell/link environment has been attracting a lot of attention in the research community recently. In this paper, we consider the problem of coordinated beamforming where base stations (BS) equipped with multiple antennas attempt to serve a separate user each despite the interference generated by the other bases. We propose a framework for a distributed optimization of the beamformers...
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We consider a MIMO broadcast channel where the channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT), to be used for user scheduling and beamforming, is gained through a limited-rate feedback channel. In view of optimizing the overall spectral efficiency of the system, we propose an adaptive scheme in which the feedback rate is no longer constant but rather optimized as a function of the time-dependent...
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An adaptive scheme was introduced in view of optimizing the overall spectral efficiency of a multiuser MIMO wireless broadcast channel where the channel state information at the transmitting base station (CSIT), to be used for user scheduling and beamforming, is acquired over a limited-rate feedback channel. In this scheme, the feedback rate is no longer constant per scheduling period but rather optimized...
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We consider the downlink of a multiuser MIMO channel, corresponding to a single cell with an Nt-antenna base station and K single-antenna mobile terminals (MTs). It is known that when full channel state information (CSI) is available at the transmitter (full CSIT) the capacity of the system scales as Nt log(P/Nt- log K), under a total power constraint P [1], While, when the transmitter has no CSI,...
