2,309 research outputs found
Fundamental Green Tradeoffs: Progresses, Challenges, and Impacts on 5G Networks
With years of tremendous traffic and energy consumption growth, green radio
has been valued not only for theoretical research interests but also for the
operational expenditure reduction and the sustainable development of wireless
communications. Fundamental green tradeoffs, served as an important framework
for analysis, include four basic relationships: spectrum efficiency (SE) versus
energy efficiency (EE), deployment efficiency (DE) versus energy efficiency
(EE), delay (DL) versus power (PW), and bandwidth (BW) versus power (PW). In
this paper, we first provide a comprehensive overview on the extensive on-going
research efforts and categorize them based on the fundamental green tradeoffs.
We will then focus on research progresses of 4G and 5G communications, such as
orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and non-orthogonal
aggregation (NOA), multiple input multiple output (MIMO), and heterogeneous
networks (HetNets). We will also discuss potential challenges and impacts of
fundamental green tradeoffs, to shed some light on the energy efficient
research and design for future wireless networks.Comment: revised from IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorial
Full-Duplex Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for Modern Wireless Networks
Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is an interesting concept to provide
higher capacity for future wireless communications. In this article, we
consider the feasibility and benefits of combining full-duplex operation with
NOMA for modern communication systems. Specifically, we provide a comprehensive
overview on application of full-duplex NOMA in cellular networks, cooperative
and cognitive radio networks, and characterize gains possible due to
full-duplex operation. Accordingly, we discuss challenges, particularly the
self-interference and inter-user interference and provide potential solutions
to interference mitigation and quality-of-service provision based on
beamforming, power control, and link scheduling. We further discuss future
research challenges and interesting directions to pursue to bring full-duplex
NOMA into maturity and use in practice.Comment: Revised, IEEE Wireless Communication Magazin
A Survey on Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for 5G Networks: Research Challenges and Future Trends
Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is an essential enabling technology for
the fifth generation (5G) wireless networks to meet the heterogeneous demands
on low latency, high reliability, massive connectivity, improved fairness, and
high throughput. The key idea behind NOMA is to serve multiple users in the
same resource block, such as a time slot, subcarrier, or spreading code. The
NOMA principle is a general framework, and several recently proposed 5G
multiple access schemes can be viewed as special cases. This survey provides an
overview of the latest NOMA research and innovations as well as their
applications. Thereby, the papers published in this special issue are put into
the content of the existing literature. Future research challenges regarding
NOMA in 5G and beyond are also discussed.Comment: to appear in IEEE JSAC, 201
Recent Advances in Cloud Radio Access Networks: System Architectures, Key Techniques, and Open Issues
As a promising paradigm to reduce both capital and operating expenditures,
the cloud radio access network (C-RAN) has been shown to provide high spectral
efficiency and energy efficiency. Motivated by its significant theoretical
performance gains and potential advantages, C-RANs have been advocated by both
the industry and research community. This paper comprehensively surveys the
recent advances of C-RANs, including system architectures, key techniques, and
open issues. The system architectures with different functional splits and the
corresponding characteristics are comprehensively summarized and discussed. The
state-of-the-art key techniques in C-RANs are classified as: the fronthaul
compression, large-scale collaborative processing, and channel estimation in
the physical layer; and the radio resource allocation and optimization in the
upper layer. Additionally, given the extensiveness of the research area, open
issues and challenges are presented to spur future investigations, in which the
involvement of edge cache, big data mining, social-aware device-to-device,
cognitive radio, software defined network, and physical layer security for
C-RANs are discussed, and the progress of testbed development and trial test
are introduced as well.Comment: 27 pages, 11 figure
Effective Capacity in Wireless Networks: A Comprehensive Survey
Low latency applications, such as multimedia communications, autonomous
vehicles, and Tactile Internet are the emerging applications for
next-generation wireless networks, such as 5th generation (5G) mobile networks.
Existing physical-layer channel models, however, do not explicitly consider
quality-of-service (QoS) aware related parameters under specific delay
constraints. To investigate the performance of low-latency applications in
future networks, a new mathematical framework is needed. Effective capacity
(EC), which is a link-layer channel model with QoS-awareness, can be used to
investigate the performance of wireless networks under certain statistical
delay constraints. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey on existing
works, that use the EC model in various wireless networks. We summarize the
work related to EC for different networks such as cognitive radio networks
(CRNs), cellular networks, relay networks, adhoc networks, and mesh networks.
We explore five case studies encompassing EC operation with different design
and architectural requirements. We survey various delay-sensitive applications
such as voice and video with their EC analysis under certain delay constraints.
We finally present the future research directions with open issues covering EC
maximization
A Survey on QoE-oriented Wireless Resources Scheduling
Future wireless systems are expected to provide a wide range of services to
more and more users. Advanced scheduling strategies thus arise not only to
perform efficient radio resource management, but also to provide fairness among
the users. On the other hand, the users' perceived quality, i.e., Quality of
Experience (QoE), is becoming one of the main drivers within the schedulers
design. In this context, this paper starts by providing a comprehension of what
is QoE and an overview of the evolution of wireless scheduling techniques.
Afterwards, a survey on the most recent QoE-based scheduling strategies for
wireless systems is presented, highlighting the application/service of the
different approaches reported in the literature, as well as the parameters that
were taken into account for QoE optimization. Therefore, this paper aims at
helping readers interested in learning the basic concepts of QoE-oriented
wireless resources scheduling, as well as getting in touch with its current
research frontier.Comment: Revised version: updated according to the most recent related
literature; added references; corrected typo
A Survey on MIMO Transmission with Discrete Input Signals: Technical Challenges, Advances, and Future Trends
Multiple antennas have been exploited for spatial multiplexing and diversity
transmission in a wide range of communication applications. However, most of
the advances in the design of high speed wireless multiple-input multiple
output (MIMO) systems are based on information-theoretic principles that
demonstrate how to efficiently transmit signals conforming to Gaussian
distribution. Although the Gaussian signal is capacity-achieving, signals
conforming to discrete constellations are transmitted in practical
communication systems. As a result, this paper is motivated to provide a
comprehensive overview on MIMO transmission design with discrete input signals.
We first summarize the existing fundamental results for MIMO systems with
discrete input signals. Then, focusing on the basic point-to-point MIMO
systems, we examine transmission schemes based on three most important criteria
for communication systems: the mutual information driven designs, the mean
square error driven designs, and the diversity driven designs. Particularly, a
unified framework which designs low complexity transmission schemes applicable
to massive MIMO systems in upcoming 5G wireless networks is provided in the
first time. Moreover, adaptive transmission designs which switch among these
criteria based on the channel conditions to formulate the best transmission
strategy are discussed. Then, we provide a survey of the transmission designs
with discrete input signals for multiuser MIMO scenarios, including MIMO uplink
transmission, MIMO downlink transmission, MIMO interference channel, and MIMO
wiretap channel. Additionally, we discuss the transmission designs with
discrete input signals for other systems using MIMO technology. Finally,
technical challenges which remain unresolved at the time of writing are
summarized and the future trends of transmission designs with discrete input
signals are addressed.Comment: 110 pages, 512 references, submit to Proceedings of the IEE
Intelligent Wireless Communications Enabled by Cognitive Radio and Machine Learning
The ability to intelligently utilize resources to meet the need of growing
diversity in services and user behavior marks the future of wireless
communication systems. Intelligent wireless communications aims at enabling the
system to perceive and assess the available resources, to autonomously learn to
adapt to the perceived wireless environment, and to reconfigure its operating
mode to maximize the utility of the available resources. The perception
capability and reconfigurability are the essential features of cognitive radio
while modern machine learning techniques project great potential in system
adaptation. In this paper, we discuss the development of the cognitive radio
technology and machine learning techniques and emphasize their roles in
improving spectrum and energy utility of wireless communication systems. We
describe the state-of-the-art of relevant techniques, covering spectrum sensing
and access approaches and powerful machine learning algorithms that enable
spectrum- and energy-efficient communications in dynamic wireless environments.
We also present practical applications of these techniques and identify further
research challenges in cognitive radio and machine learning as applied to the
existing and future wireless communication systems
Adaptive Mode Selection in Multiuser MISO Cognitive Networks with Limited Cooperation and Feedback
In this paper, we consider a multiuser MISO downlink cognitive network
coexisting with a primary network. With the purpose of exploiting the spatial
degree of freedom to counteract the inter-network interference and
intra-network (inter-user) interference simultaneously, we propose to perform
zero-forcing beamforming (ZFBF) at the multi-antenna cognitive base station
(BS) based on the instantaneous channel state information (CSI). The challenge
of designing ZFBF in cognitive networks lies in how to obtain the interference
CSI. To solve it, we introduce a limited inter-network cooperation protocol,
namely the quantized CSI conveyance from the primary receiver to the cognitive
BS via purchase. Clearly, the more the feedback amount, the better the
performance, but the higher the feedback cost. In order to achieve a balance
between the performance and feedback cost, we take the maximization of feedback
utility function, defined as the difference of average sum rate and feedback
cost while satisfying the interference constraint, as the optimization
objective, and derive the transmission mode and feedback amount joint
optimization scheme. Moreover, we quantitatively investigate the impact of CSI
feedback delay and obtain the corresponding optimization scheme. Furthermore,
through asymptotic analysis, we present some simple schemes. Finally, numerical
results confirm the effectiveness of our theoretical claims.Comment: 11 pages,6 figures, 4 tables IEEE Transactions on Vehicular
Technology, 201
Effective Capacity of a Rayleigh Fading Channel in the Presence of Interference
In recent years the concept of the effective capacity that relates the
physical layer characteristics of a wireless channel to the data link layer has
gained a lot of attraction in wireless networking research community. The
effective capacity is based on G\"artner-Ellis' large deviation theorem and it
is used to provide the statistical QoS provisioning in the wireless networks.
Effective capacity also helps in the analysis of the resource allocation or
scheduling policies in various wireless systems such as Relay networks,
multi-user systems and multi-carrier systems subject to statistical QoS
requirements. The effective capacity in noise limited wireless network has
already been investigated in the recent works. Considering the interference
limited wireless channels, in this paper we propose an analytical approach
based on Laplace's method for the effective capacity of uncorrelated Rayleigh
fading channel in the presence of uncorrelated Rayleigh fading interference.
The accuracy of the analytical model for the effective capacity is validated by
numerical simulations. We also provide the evaluation of tail probability of
the delay and maximum sustainable rate. The validation results reveal that the
proposed mathematical approach to the effective capacity can open the path for
further researches in statistical QoS provisioning in interference limited
wireless networks.Comment: 19 Pages,IJWM
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