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Degrees of freedom for separated and non-separated half-duplex cellular MIMO two-way relay channels

We study a cellular setting in which an introduced multiple-antenna relay station (RS) can possibly assist the bidirectional communication between a multiple-antenna base station (BS) and a set of single-antenna mobile stations (MSs). Through a proposed six-phase communication protocol with arbitrary number of antennas and MSs, we characterize the maximum number of degrees of freedom (DoF) that

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On the ARQ protocols over the Z-interference channels: Diversity- multiplexing-delay tradeoff

We characterize the achievable three-dimensional tradeoff between diversity, multiplexing, and delay of the single antenna Automatic Retransmission reQuest (ARQ) Z-interference channel. Non-cooperative and cooperative ARQ protocols are adopted under these assumptions. Considering no cooperation exists, we study the achievable tradeoff of the fixed-power split Han-Kobayashi (HK) approach

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MIMO vehicular networks: Research challenges and opportunities

In this paper, we provide a review of the benefits of employing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) signal processing techniques in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). These benefits include increasing the range of communication via beamforming, improving the reliability of communication via spatial diversity, increasing the throughput of the network via spatial multiplexing, and managing

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On the role of vehicular mobility in cooperative content caching

In this paper, we analyze the performance of cooperative content caching in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). In particular, we characterize, using analysis and simulations, the behavior of the probability of outage (i.e. not finding a requested data chunk at a neighbor) under freeway vehicular mobility. First, we introduce a formal definition for the probability of outage in the context of

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MIMO VANETs: Research challenges and opportunities

In this paper, we provide a review of the benefits of employing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) processing techniques in vehicular ad hoc networks VANETs. These benefits include increasing the range of communication via beamforming, improving the reliability of communication via spatial diversity, increasing the throughput of the network via spatial multiplexing, and managing multiuser

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Leveraging primary feedback and spectrum sensing for cognitive access

We consider a time-slotted primary system where both the primary channel and primary activity are modeled as two independent two-state Markov chains. The primary transmitter can be idle or busy, whereas the channel can be in erasure or not. Moreover, the sensing channel between the primary transmitter and secondary transmitter is modeled as a two-state Markov chain to represent two levels of

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Cross-layer transmission rate/power policy for cognitive multi-access networks with imperfect sensing

We consider an underlay cognitive radio network with a primary user and a secondary user transmitting to a common receiver. The secondary user senses the primary user's channel to determine whether the primary user is active or idle. The secondary user's transmission policy is determined via a probabilistic cross-layer algorithm in which the secondary user's average packet delay is minimized

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Distributed spectrum sensing with sequential ordered transmissions to a cognitive fusion center

Cooperative spectrum sensing is a robust strategy that enhances the detection probability of primary licensed users. However, a large number of detectors reporting to a fusion center for a final decision causes significant delay and also presumes the availability of unreasonable communication resources at the disposal of a network searching for spectral opportunities. In this paper, we employ the

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QOS-constrained multiuser peer-to-peer amplify-and-forward relay beamforming

A wireless communication scenario is considered with K single-antenna source-destination pairs communicating through several half-duplex amplify-and-forward MIMO relays where each source is targeting only one destination. The relay beamforming matrices are designed in order to minimize the total power transmitted from the relays subject to quality of service constraints on the received signal to

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Keys through ARQ: Theory and practice

This paper develops a novel framework for sharing secret keys using the Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) protocol. We first characterize the underlying information theoretic limits, under different assumptions on the channel spatial and temporal correlation function. Our analysis reveals a novel role of dumb antennas in overcoming the negative impact of spatial correlation on the achievable secrecy

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