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Issue 10 • October-2013

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Publication Year: 2013,Page(s):c1 - c4

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Year: 2013 | Volume: 12 | Issue: 10

[Staff list]

Publication Year: 2013,Page(s):c2 - c2

[Staff list]

Year: 2013 | Volume: 12 | Issue: 10
In this paper, we analyze the ergodic sum-rate of a multi-cell downlink system with base station (BS) cooperation using regularized zero-forcing (RZF) precoding. Our model assumes that the channels between BSs and users have independent spatial correlations and imperfect channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT) is available. Our derivations are based on large dimensional random matrix t...Show More
This article investigates the problem of distributed channel selection for opportunistic spectrum access systems, where multiple cognitive radio (CR) users are spatially located and mutual interference only emerges between neighboring users. In addition, there is no information exchange among CR users. We first propose a MAC-layer interference minimization game, in which the utility of a player is...Show More
In spectrum sharing systems, a secondary user (SU) is allowed to share the spectrum with a primary (licensed) network under the condition that the interference observed at the receivers of the primary users (PU-Rxs) is below a predetermined level. In this paper, we consider a secondary network comprised of a secondary transmitter (SU-Tx) equipped with multiple antennas and a single-antenna seconda...Show More
Relay-based cooperative communication has become a research focus in recent years because it can achieve diversity gain in wireless networks. In existing works, network coding and the two-path relay scheme is exploited to deal with the increase in network size and the half-duplex nature of relay, respectively. To further improve bandwidth efficiency, we propose a novel cooperative transmission sch...Show More
With the exponential increase in high rate traffic given by a new generation of wireless devices, data is expected to overwhelm cellular network capacity in the near future. Femtocell networks have been recently proposed as an efficient and cost-effective approach to provide unprecedented levels of network capacity and coverage. However, the dense and random deployment of femtocells and their unco...Show More
In this paper, we introduce Underwater Selective Repeat (USR), a Selective Repeat Automatic Repeat reQuest (SR-ARQ) mechanism for multiuser underwater acoustic networks. Our scheme exploits the typically large round-trip time (RTT) of underwater acoustic links to interlace the transmission of data and acknowledgment (ACK) packets, such that the transmitter never starts sending data packets when it...Show More
In this study, the jointly optimal power control with signal constellation randomization is proposed for the downlink of a multiuser communications system. Unlike a conventional system in which a fixed signal constellation is employed for all the bits of a user (for given channel conditions and noise power), power control with signal constellation randomization involves randomization/time-sharing ...Show More
This paper presents a novel compressive coded modulation (CCM) which simultaneously achieves joint source-channel coding and seamless rate adaptation. The embedding of source compression into modulation brings significant throughput gain when the physical layer data contain non-negligible redundancy. The kernel of CCM is a new random projection (RP) code inspired by the compressive sensing (CS) th...Show More
A new architecture called integer-forcing (IF) linear receiver has been recently proposed for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) fading channels, wherein an appropriate integer linear combination of the received symbols has to be computed as a part of the decoding process. In this paper, we propose a method based on Hermite-Korkine-Zolotareff (HKZ) and Minkowski lattice basis reduction algorith...Show More
Future deployments of wireless sensor network (WSN) infrastructures for environmental or event monitoring are expected to be equipped with energy harvesters (e.g. piezoelectric, thermal, photovoltaic) in order to substantially increase their autonomy. In this paper we derive conditions for energy neutrality, i.e. perpetual energy autonomy per sensor node, by balancing the node's expected energy co...Show More
A signature identification algorithm is a method to obtain the cell identification information for wireless cellular systems or determine the intended user for wireless local area network. In this paper, we propose a simple and efficient signature identification algorithm on the basis of Zadoff-Chu sequence in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems. In addition, we prove that the propo...Show More
In this paper, by taking both sensing performance and energy efficiency into consideration, the Cooperative Sensing Scheduling (CSS) problem for multi-band Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) is investigated under a practical scenario where both Primary User (PU) channels and Secondary Users (SUs) have heterogeneous characteristics. Unlike many existing works that merely claim that the CSS problem is ...Show More
Enhanced Inter-cell Interference Co-ordination (eICIC) is a time-domain multiplexing technique for improving the performance of legacy co-channel Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets). eICIC offers several benefits, including a more equitable distribution of user traffic across the macro and embedded pico cells (i.e., load balancing), in turn leading to better pico cell utilizations and better edge use...Show More
A relay cooperation scheme is proposed for the downlink of multicell multiple-input-multiple-output cellular networks. The relay stations (RSs) will cooperatively transmit the signal replicas of all the user equipments obtained during the broadcast phase. We consider different RS decoding strategies during the broadcast phase and joint relay transmission with different degrees of channel state inf...Show More
With the rapid developments in vehicular communication technology, academics and industry researchers are paying increasing attention to vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). In VANETs, dissemination delay and reliability are important criteria for many applications, especially for emergency messages. Existing approaches have difficulty satisfying both requirements simultaneously because they confli...Show More
Cooperative communication for wireless networks has gained a lot of recent interests due to its ability to mitigate fading with exploration of spatial diversity. The objective of this paper is to design an efficient algorithm to minimize the total consumed power of the network while guaranteeing transmission reliability of multiple active transmission pairs through cooperative wireless communicati...Show More
Interference alignment (IA) is a promising technique that can effectively eliminate the interference in wireless networks. However, in traditional IA schemes, the signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) may significantly degrade, and the quality of service (QoS) may be unacceptable. In this paper, a novel IA scheme based on antenna switching (AS-IA) is proposed to improve the SINR of the re...Show More
A Finite Feedback Scheme (FFS) for a quasi-static MIMO block fading channel with finite N-ary delay-free noise-free feedback consists of N Space-Time Block Codes (STBCs) at the transmitter, one corresponding to each possible value of feedback, and a function at the receiver that generates N-ary feedback. A number of FFSs are available in the literature that provably attain full-diversity. However,...Show More
For a family of Space-Time Block Codes (STBCs) C1, C2, ... , with increasing number of transmit antennas Ni, with rates Ri complex symbols per channel use, i = 1, 2, ... , we introduce the notion of asymptotic normalized rate which we define as limi→∞ Ri/Ni , and we say that a family of STBCs is Ri asymptotically-good if its asymptotic normalized rate is non-zero, i.e., when the rate scales as a n...Show More
Network service acquisition in a wireless environment requires the selection of a wireless access network. A key problem in wireless access network selection is to study the rational strategy considering the negative network externality, i.e, the influence of subsequent users' decisions on an individual's throughput due to the limited available resources. In this work, we formulate the wireless ne...Show More
In heterogeneous cellular scenarios with macrocells, femtocells or picocells users may suffer from significant co-channel cross-tier interference. To manage this interference 3GPP introduced almost blank subframe (ABSF), a subframe in which the interferer tier is not allowed to transmit data. Vulnerable users thus get a chance to be scheduled in ABSFs with reduced cross-tier interference. We analy...Show More
The design of modulation schemes for the physical layer network-coded two-way relay network has been studied in literature and it is known that every network coding map that satisfies the exclusive law is representable by a Latin Square. This relationship has been used to get network coding maps satisfying the exclusive law. But, only the scenario in which the end nodes use M-PSK signal sets has b...Show More
Recently, distributed data storage (DDS) for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has attracted great attention, especially in catastrophic scenarios. Since power consumption is one of the most critical factors that affect the lifetime of WSNs, the energy efficiency of DDS in WSNs is investigated in this paper. Based on Compressed Sensing (CS) and network coding theories, we propose a Compressed Networ...Show More

Contact Information

Editor-in-Chief
Vincent Wong
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver
Canada
vincentw@ece.ubc.ca

Contact Information

Editor-in-Chief
Vincent Wong
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver
Canada
vincentw@ece.ubc.ca