393 research outputs found
A Relay Can Increase Degrees of Freedom in Bursty Interference Networks
We investigate the benefits of relays in multi-user wireless networks with
bursty user traffic, where intermittent data traffic restricts the users to
bursty transmissions. To this end, we study a two-user bursty MIMO Gaussian
interference channel with a relay, where two Bernoulli random states govern the
bursty user traffic. We show that an in-band relay can provide a degrees of
freedom (DoF) gain in this bursty channel. This beneficial role of in-band
relays in the bursty channel is in direct contrast to their role in the
non-bursty channel which is not as significant to provide a DoF gain. More
importantly, we demonstrate that for certain antenna configurations, an in-band
relay can help achieve interference-free performances with increased DoF. We
find the benefits particularly substantial with low data traffic, as the DoF
gain can grow linearly with the number of antennas at the relay. In this work,
we first derive an outer bound from which we obtain a necessary condition for
interference-free DoF performances. Then, we develop a novel scheme that
exploits information of the bursty traffic states to achieve them.Comment: submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Information Theor
Frame Structure Design and Analysis for Millimeter Wave Cellular Systems
The millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies have attracted considerable
attention for fifth generation (5G) cellular communication as they offer orders
of magnitude greater bandwidth than current cellular systems. However, the
medium access control (MAC) layer may need to be significantly redesigned to
support the highly directional transmissions, ultra-low latencies and high peak
rates expected in mmWave communication. To address these challenges, we present
a novel mmWave MAC layer frame structure with a number of enhancements
including flexible, highly granular transmission times, dynamic control signal
locations, extended messaging and ability to efficiently multiplex directional
control signals. Analytic formulae are derived for the utilization and control
overhead as a function of control periodicity, number of users, traffic
statistics, signal-to-noise ratio and antenna gains. Importantly, the analysis
can incorporate various front-end MIMO capability assumptions -- a critical
feature of mmWave. Under realistic system and traffic assumptions, the analysis
reveals that the proposed flexible frame structure design offers significant
benefits over designs with fixed frame structures similar to current 4G
long-term evolution (LTE). It is also shown that fully digital beamforming
architectures offer significantly lower overhead compared to analog and hybrid
beamforming under equivalent power budgets.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Transactions for Wireless Communication
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