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    Content-Specific Broadcast Cellular Networks based on User Demand Prediction: A Revenue Perspective

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    The Long Term Evolution (LTE) broadcast is a promising solution to cope with exponentially increasing user traffic by broadcasting common user requests over the same frequency channels. In this paper, we propose a novel network framework provisioning broadcast and unicast services simultaneously. For each serving file to users, a cellular base station determines either to broadcast or unicast the file based on user demand prediction examining the file's content specific characteristics such as: file size, delay tolerance, price sensitivity. In a network operator's revenue maximization perspective while not inflicting any user payoff degradation, we jointly optimize resource allocation, pricing, and file scheduling. In accordance with the state of the art LTE specifications, the proposed network demonstrates up to 32% increase in revenue for a single cell and more than a 7-fold increase for a 7 cell coordinated LTE broadcast network, compared to the conventional unicast cellular networks.Comment: 6 pages; This paper will appear in the Proc. of IEEE WCNC 201

    Opportunistic Scheduling for Full-Duplex Uplink-Downlink Networks

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    We study opportunistic scheduling and the sum capacity of cellular networks with a full-duplex multi-antenna base station and a large number of single-antenna half-duplex users. Simultaneous uplink and downlink over the same band results in uplink-to-downlink interference, degrading performance. We present a simple opportunistic joint uplink-downlink scheduling algorithm that exploits multiuser diversity and treats interference as noise. We show that in homogeneous networks, our algorithm achieves the same sum capacity as what would have been achieved if there was no uplink-to-downlink interference, asymptotically in the number of users. The algorithm does not require interference CSI at the base station or uplink users. It is also shown that for a simple class of heterogeneous networks without sufficient channel diversity, it is not possible to achieve the corresponding interference-free system capacity. We discuss the potential for using device-to-device side-channels to overcome this limitation in heterogeneous networks.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures, to appear at IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) '1

    V2X Meets NOMA: Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for 5G Enabled Vehicular Networks

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    Benefited from the widely deployed infrastructure, the LTE network has recently been considered as a promising candidate to support the vehicle-to-everything (V2X) services. However, with a massive number of devices accessing the V2X network in the future, the conventional OFDM-based LTE network faces the congestion issues due to its low efficiency of orthogonal access, resulting in significant access delay and posing a great challenge especially to safety-critical applications. The non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique has been well recognized as an effective solution for the future 5G cellular networks to provide broadband communications and massive connectivity. In this article, we investigate the applicability of NOMA in supporting cellular V2X services to achieve low latency and high reliability. Starting with a basic V2X unicast system, a novel NOMA-based scheme is proposed to tackle the technical hurdles in designing high spectral efficient scheduling and resource allocation schemes in the ultra dense topology. We then extend it to a more general V2X broadcasting system. Other NOMA-based extended V2X applications and some open issues are also discussed.Comment: Accepted by IEEE Wireless Communications Magazin

    Opportunistic Interference Mitigation Achieves Optimal Degrees-of-Freedom in Wireless Multi-cell Uplink Networks

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    We introduce an opportunistic interference mitigation (OIM) protocol, where a user scheduling strategy is utilized in KK-cell uplink networks with time-invariant channel coefficients and base stations (BSs) having MM antennas. Each BS opportunistically selects a set of users who generate the minimum interference to the other BSs. Two OIM protocols are shown according to the number SS of simultaneously transmitting users per cell: opportunistic interference nulling (OIN) and opportunistic interference alignment (OIA). Then, their performance is analyzed in terms of degrees-of-freedom (DoFs). As our main result, it is shown that KMKM DoFs are achievable under the OIN protocol with MM selected users per cell, if the total number NN of users in a cell scales at least as SNR(Kβˆ’1)M\text{SNR}^{(K-1)M}. Similarly, it turns out that the OIA scheme with SS(<M<M) selected users achieves KSKS DoFs, if NN scales faster than SNR(Kβˆ’1)S\text{SNR}^{(K-1)S}. These results indicate that there exists a trade-off between the achievable DoFs and the minimum required NN. By deriving the corresponding upper bound on the DoFs, it is shown that the OIN scheme is DoF optimal. Finally, numerical evaluation, a two-step scheduling method, and the extension to multi-carrier scenarios are shown.Comment: 18 pages, 3 figures, Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Communication
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