A comprehensive review on coordinated multi-point operation for LTE-A

F Qamar, KB Dimyati, MN Hindia, KAB Noordin… - Computer Networks, 2017 - Elsevier
With the enormous increase in application demands and user's data rate, high Quality of
Service (QoS) has attracted significant attention from the mobile operators and academia in …

Unified Performance Analysis for Multiuser Mixed - and - Distribution Dual-Hop RF/FSO Systems

L Yang, MO Hasna, IS Ansari - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A mixed free-space optical (FSO) communication scheme is considered with the help of a
fixed gain relay. We assume that the links from the source to the relay are radio frequency …

System and method for managing handoff of a client between different distributed-input-distributed-output (DIDO) networks based on detected velocity of the client

A Forenza, SG Perlman - US Patent 9,819,403, 2017 - Google Patents
a single WiFi base station (eg, utilizing 2.4 GHz 802.11 b, g or n protocols) attached to a
broadband wired Internet connection in an area where there are no other WiFi access points …

A new approach to user scheduling in massive multi-user MIMO broadcast channels

G Lee, Y Sung - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a new two-phase-feedback-based user-scheduling-and-beamforming method
is proposed for multi-user multiple-input multiple-output downlink in the context of two-stage …

System and method for managing inter-cluster handoff of clients which traverse multiple DIDO clusters

A Forenza, SG Perlman - US Patent 9,826,537, 2017 - Google Patents
A system and method are described for adjusting communication with a first distributed-input-
distributed-output (DIDO) client as the first DIDO client moves from a first DIDO cluster to a …

[PDF][PDF] Fair social choice in dynamic settings

R Freeman, SM Zahedi, V Conitzer - Proceedings of the 26th International Joint …, 2017 - irit.fr
We study a dynamic social choice problem in which an alternative is chosen at each round
according to the reported valuations of a set of agents. In the interests of obtaining a solution …

Opportunistic downlink interference alignment for multi-cell MIMO networks

HJ Yang, WY Shin, BC Jung, C Suh… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose an opportunistic downlink interference alignment (ODIA) for
interference-limited cellular downlink, which intelligently combines user scheduling and …

Code division multiplexing in a single-carrier frequency division multiple access system

R Palanki, AD Khandekar, A Sutivong - US Patent 9,693,339, 2017 - Google Patents
In a single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC FDMA) system that utilizes
interleaved FDMA (IFDMA) or localized FDMA (LFDMA), a transmitter generates modu lation …

How do apps evolve in their permission requests? a preliminary study

P Calciati, A Gorla - 2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a preliminary study to understand how apps evolve in their permission requests
across different releases. We analyze over 14K releases of 227 Android apps, and we see …

Method and apparatus for providing antenna diversity in a wireless communication system

T Kadous, A Khandekar, DA Gore… - US Patent 9,660,776, 2017 - Google Patents
Apparatus and methods implementing transmission schemes that can flexibly achieve the
desired spatial multiplexing order, spatial diversity order, and channel estimation overhead …