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most citedTrajectory Design for Energy Minimization in UAV-enabled Wireless Communications with Latency Constraints

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cs.IT2025

Handoff Design in User-Centric Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks Using DRL

Hussein A. Ammar, Raviraj Adve, Shahram Shahbazpanahi +2

In the user-centric cell-free massive MIMO (UC-mMIMO) network scheme, user mobility necessitates updating the set of serving access points to maintain the user-centric clustering.…

cs.IT2024

Handoffs in User-Centric Cell-Free MIMO Networks: A POMDP Framework

Hussein A. Ammar, Raviraj Adve, Shahram Shahbazpanahi +2

We study the problem of managing handoffs (HOs) in user-centric cell-free massive MIMO (UC-mMIMO) networks. Motivated by the importance of controlling the number of HOs and by the…

cs.IT2022

POMDP-based Handoffs for User-Centric Cell-Free MIMO Networks

Hussein A. Ammar, Raviraj Adve, Shahram Shahbazpanahi +2

We propose to control handoffs (HOs) in user-centric cell-free massive MIMO networks through a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) with the state space representin…

cs.IT2021★ 1 cited

Analysis and Design of Distributed MIMO Networks with a Wireless Fronthaul

Hussein A. Ammar, Raviraj Adve, Shahram Shahbazpanahi +1

We consider the analysis and design of distributed wireless networks wherein remote radio heads (RRHs) coordinate transmissions to serve multiple users on the same resource block (…

cs.IT2021

Distributed Resource Allocation Optimization for User-Centric Cell-Free MIMO Networks

Hussein A. Ammar, Raviraj Adve, Shahram Shahbazpanahi +2

We develop two distributed downlink resource allocation algorithms for user-centric, cell-free, spatially-distributed, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks. In such netwo…

cs.IT2021

RWP+: A New Random Waypoint Model for High-Speed Mobility

Hussein A. Ammar, Raviraj Adve, Shahram Shahbazpanahi +2

In this letter, we emulate real-world statistics for mobility patterns on road systems. We then propose modifications to the assumptions of the random waypoint (RWP) model to bette…

cs.IT2021

Downlink Resource Allocation in Multiuser Cell-free MIMO Networks with User-centric Clustering

Hussein A. Ammar, Raviraj Adve, Shahram Shahbazpanahi +2

In this paper, we optimize user scheduling, power allocation and beamforming in distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks implementing user-centric clustering. We…

cs.IT2021★ 1 cited

Hybrid Analog and Digital Beamforming Design for Channel Estimation in Correlated Massive MIMO Systems

Javad Mirzaei, Shahram ShahbazPanahi, Foad Sohrabi +1

In this paper, we study the channel estimation problem in correlated massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems with a reduced number of radio-frequency (RF) chains. Imp…

cs.IT2021

User-centric Cell-free Massive MIMO Networks: A Survey of Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions

Hussein A. Ammar, Raviraj Adve, Shahram Shahbazpanahi +2

Densification of network base stations is indispensable to achieve the stringent Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of future mobile networks. However, with a dense deployment o…

cs.IT2021

Optimizing RRH Placement Under a Noise-Limited Point-to-Point Wireless Backhaul

Hussein A. Ammar, Raviraj Adve, Shahram Shahbazpanahi +1

In this paper, we study the deployment decisions and location optimization for the remote radio heads (RRHs) in coordinated distributed networks in the presence of a wireless backh…

cs.IT2021

Resource Allocation and Scheduling in Non-coherent User-centric Cell-free MIMO

Hussein A. Ammar, Raviraj Adve, Shahram Shahbazpanahi +2

We study the problem of user-scheduling and resource allocation in distributed multi-user, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks implementing user-centric clustering and n…

cs.IT2020

Statistical Analysis of Downlink Zero-Forcing Beamforming

Hussein A. Ammar, Raviraj Adve, Shahram Shahbazpanahi +1

We analyze the mean and the variance of the useful signal and interference powers in a multi-cell network using zero-forcing beamforming (ZF-BF) with two beamformer normalization a…

cs.IT2019★ 113 cited

Trajectory Design for Energy Minimization in UAV-enabled Wireless Communications with Latency Constraints

Dinh-Hieu Tran, Thang X. Vu, Symeon Chatzinotas +2

This paper studies energy-efficient unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless communications, where the UAV acts as a flying base station (BS) to serve the ground users (GUs)…

eess.SP2019

A Worst-Case Performance Optimization Based Design Approach to Robust Symbol-Level Precoding for Downlink MU-MIMO

Alireza Haqiqatnejad, Shahram Shahbazpanahi, Björn Ottersten

This paper addresses the optimization problem of symbol-level precoding (SLP) in the downlink of a multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) wireless system while the prec…

cs.NI2013★ 1 cited

Mobility Diversity in Mobile Wireless Networks

Veria Havary-Nassab, Shahram Shahbazpanahi, Shahrokh Valaee

We introduce the novel concept of mobility diversity for mobile sensor or communication networks as the diversity introduced by transmitting data over different topologies of the n…

nlin.AO2009★ 31 cited

Filter-And-Forward Distributed Beamforming in Relay Networks with Frequency Selective Fading

Haihua Chen, Alex B. Gershman, Shahram Shahbazpanahi

A new approach to distributed cooperative beamforming in relay networks with frequency selective fading is proposed. It is assumed that all the relay nodes are equipped with finite…