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This paper analyzes the performance of information and energy beamforming in multiple-input multiple- output (MIMO) wireless communications systems, where a self-powered multi-antenna hybrid access point (AP) coordinates wireless information and power transfer (WIPT) with an energy-constrained multi-antenna user terminal (UT). The wirelessly powered UT scavenge energy from the hybrid AP radio-frequency...
Emerging Information-Centric Networking (ICN) architectures seek to optimally utilize both bandwidth and storage for efficient content distribution over the network. The Virtual Interest Packet (VIP) framework has been proposed to enable joint design of forwarding, caching, and congestion control strategies within the Named Data Networking (NDN) architecture. While the existing VIP algorithms exhibit...
With the prevailing of mobile phones and online video contents, the demand for mobile online video is increasing. The desire, however, is held down by the high mobile traffic cost. To solve this problem, an off-the-shelf solution is WiFi-Direct (WFD), which is widely available on a majority of mobile devices. There is, however, no systematic study of WFD-based group data transfer and cooperative video...
Joint transmission (JT), an attractive coordinated multipoint (CoMP) downlink transmission technique, is used to increase cell-edge user throughput, but has to distribute the same user data to multiple base stations termed a JT cluster, thus leading to a huge burden on backhaul bandwidth. Therefore, recent studies considered caching user data at the base stations to reduce the backhaul bandwidth consumption...
Device-to-device (D2D) communication is one of the most promising solutions to the dramatic increase of wireless networks traffic load. In D2D communications, mobile nodes can communicate in a semi-autonomous way, with minimal or no control by the base station (BS). In this context, we address the problem of the coexistence of cellular and D2D tiers in the uplink frequencies, where a D2D source is...
To facilitate content delivery to mobile users, we propose a content caching and distribution framework for the heterogeneous OFDM networks, where a library of files available at the macro base station (MBS) can be distributively cached in multiple serving nodes (SNs). SNs are capable of both receiving unstored files from MBS and transmitting files to the associated users. For a given group of file...
This paper investigates multi-user multi-input multi- output cognitive wireless powered communication networks (WPCN), in which a secondary WPCN shares spectrum with a primary wireless information transfer system. A typical WPCN consists of two different phases. In the first downlink phase, a hybrid access point (H-AP) transfers energy to charge users, and then in the subsequent uplink phase, the...
Motivated by the observation that energy harvesting (EH) from radio-frequency (RF) signal is subject to fluctuations, multiple EH-enabled relays are employed to collaboratively enhance data communications in a device-to-device (D2D) network underlying a cellular system. Each relay is equipped with a single antenna and unable to harvest energy and transmit data simultaneously. Thus, the D2D user equipment...
Energy harvesting (EH) two-hop communications are considered. The transmitter and the relay harvest energy from the environment and use it exclusively for transmitting data. A data arrival process is assumed at the transmitter. At the relay, a finite data buffer is used to store the received data. We consider a realistic scenario in which the EH nodes have only local causal information, i.e., at any...
Multipath solutions have been shown to help improve throughput, reliability and/or load balancing. This paper seeks to understand if and when they benefit rate stability. Rate stability is important to many real-time, interactive applications, e.g., streaming video, but whether multipath solutions can help is unclear. Of relevance is the time-scale at which bandwidth changes are detected and acted...
Traffic safety and efficiency are the most important motivations for the rapid development of vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) technology. VANET is considered to provide the unified platform and solutions for the intelligent transportation system (ITS). In this paper, a novel method named spectrum penetration is proposed to improve the throughput of multi-channel MAC for VANET. Meanwhile, it can overcome...
LTE-WLAN Aggregation (LWA) at Radio Access Network (RAN) level offers better performance compared to other WLAN inter-working and offloading mechanisms due to its tighter integration. In rel.~13, 3GPP standardized an LWA architecture which works at the Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) layer of LTE eNodeB and provides packet-level steering. But this architecture provides sub-optimal...
Performance anomaly is a well-known problem in 802.11 networks. It refers to the case where the aggregated throughput of the multirate network is degraded by slow rate links due to the fair sharing of transmission opportunities. As a result of growing heterogeneity in 802.11 hardware, the coexistence of slow rate and fast rate links are more common and performance anomaly is considered severer. In...
Broadband wireless communication is of critical importance during public safety scenarios as it facilitates situational awareness capabilities for first responders and victims. In this paper, the use of LTE-Unlicensed (LTE-U) technology for unmanned aerial base stations (UABSs) is investigated as an effective approach to enhance the achievable broadband throughput during emergency situations...
In this paper, the achievable rate of buffer-aided diamond relay systems under delay constraints is studied. The effective capacity, characterizing the maximum constant arrival rate to the source while satisfying the end-to-end delay constraints, is obtained for fixed decode-and-forward (DF) relaying schemes and selective relaying protocols. A selection relaying policy that maximizes the delay exponent...
This paper investigates the joint user association (UA) and user scheduling (US) for load balancing in a wireless downlink heterogeneous network by formulating a network-wide utility maximization problem. In order to efficiently solve the problem, we first approximate the original non-convex throughput function to a concave function, and demonstrate that the gap for such approximation approaches zero...
5G Radio Access Networks (RANs) are supposed to increase their capacity by 1000x to handle growing number of connected devices and increasing data rates. The concept of cloud-RAN (CRAN) has been recently proposed to decouple digital units (DUs) and radio units (RUs) of base stations (BSs), and centralize DUs into central offices. CRAN can ease the implementation of advanced radio coordination techniques,...
Software Defined Networking has been adopted to improve data center network efficiency. In SDN, the controllers are responsible for exchanging information with the switches to perform specific operations such as data forwarding. The transmission of control traffic usually uses networks different from data networks. However, building an additional wired network for the control traffic leads to high...
Random linear network coding (RLNC) has been shown to efficiently improve the network performance in terms of reducing transmission delays and increasing the throughput in broadcast and multicast communications. However, it can result in increased storage and computational complexity at the receivers end. In our previous work we considered the broadcast transmission of large file to N receivers. We...
Abstract-Public-cloud providers do not disclose quantitative information about the performance of their inter- datacenter networks in spite of their importance and of the growing interest they are attracting. In this paper we propose an analysis of the inter-datacenter network of the two leading providers-Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure- only leveraging active monitoring approaches and thus...
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