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An Informativeness-based Clustered Federated Learning Method for Reliable Traffic Prediction in Managed Wi-Fi Networks
Luca Barbieri, Gianluca Fontanesi, Lorenzo Galati Giordano +2
Centrally-managed Wi-Fi solutions are increasingly leveraging Distributed Artificial Intelligence (AI) to predict key operational statistics of Access Points (APs) and proactively…
A Tutorial on IEEE 802.11bn Multi-AP Coordination for Wi-Fi 8: From Standardization to Performance Evaluation
Francesc Wilhelmi, Boris Bellalta, Giovanni Geraci +5
The IEEE 802.11bn amendment defines significant modifications to the standard by establishing Ultra High Reliability (UHR) targets in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). This is…
Autoencoder-Based CSI Compression for Beyond Wi-Fi 8 Coordinated Beamforming
Ibrahim Aboushehada, Boris Bellalta, Giovanni Geraci +1
Coordinated beamforming (Co-BF) is a key multi-access-point coordination (MAPC) technique for dense Wi-Fi deployments, but its performance can be hindered by the large channel stat…
Studying the Role of Synthetic Data for Machine Learning-based Wireless Networks Traffic Forecasting
José Pulido, Francesc Wilhelmi, Sergio Fortes +3
Synthetic data generation is an appealing tool for augmenting and enriching datasets, playing a crucial role in advancing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). No…
Improving Wi-Fi 8 Latency with Coordinated Spatial Reuse
David Nunez, Francesc Wilhelmi, Lorenzo Galati-Giordano +2
IEEE 802.11 networks continuously adapt to meet the stringent requirements of emerging applications like cloud gaming, eXtended Reality (XR), and video streaming services, which re…
"It's Your Turn": A Novel Channel Contention Mechanism for Improving Wi-Fi's Reliability
Francesc Wilhelmi, Lorenzo Galati-Giordano, Gianluca Fontanesi
The next generation of Wi-Fi, i.e., the IEEE 802.11bn (aka Wi-Fi 8), is not only expected to increase its performance and provide extended capabilities but also aims to offer a rel…
Performance Evaluation of MLO for XR Streaming: Can Wi-Fi 7 Meet the Expectations?
Marc Carrascosa-Zamacois, Lorenzo Galati-Giordano, Francesc Wilhelmi +4
Extended Reality (XR) has stringent throughput and delay requirements that are hard to meet with current wireless technologies. Missing these requirements can lead to worsened pict…
Spatial Reuse in IEEE 802.11bn Coordinated Multi-AP WLANs: A Throughput Analysis
David Nunez, Francesc Wilhelmi, Lorenzo Galati-Giordano +2
IEEE 802.11 networks continuously adapt to meet the stringent requirements of emerging applications like cloud gaming, eXtended Reality (XR), and video streaming services, which re…
Distributed Learning for Wi-Fi AP Load Prediction
Dariush Salami, Francesc Wilhelmi, Lorenzo Galati-Giordano +1
The increasing cloudification and softwarization of networks foster the interplay among multiple independently managed deployments. An appealing reason for such an interplay lies i…
ConPA: A Contention-free Mechanism with Power Adaptation for Beyond Listen-Before-Talk
Francesc Wilhelmi, Paolo Baracca, Gianluca Fontanesi +1
In view of the need to find novel means to utilize the unlicensed spectrum to meet the rising latency and reliability requirements of new applications, we propose a novel mechanism…
Throughput Analysis of IEEE 802.11bn Coordinated Spatial Reuse
Francesc Wilhelmi, Lorenzo Galati-Giordano, Giovanni Geraci +3
Multi-Access Point Coordination (MAPC) is becoming the cornerstone of the IEEE 802.11bn amendment, alias Wi-Fi 8. Among the MAPC features, Coordinated Spatial Reuse (C-SR) stands a…
AI/ML-based Load Prediction in IEEE 802.11 Enterprise Networks
Francesc Wilhelmi, Dariush Salami, Gianluca Fontanesi +2
Enterprise Wi-Fi networks can greatly benefit from Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) thanks to their well-developed management and operation capabilities. At the…
What Will Wi-Fi 8 Be? A Primer on IEEE 802.11bn Ultra High Reliability
Lorenzo Galati Giordano, Giovanni Geraci, Marc Carrascosa +1
What will Wi-Fi 8 be? Driven by the strict requirements of emerging applications, next-generation Wi-Fi is set to prioritize Ultra High Reliability (UHR) above all. In this paper,…
Delay Analysis of IEEE 802.11be Multi-link Operation under Finite Load
Boris Bellalta, Marc Carrascosa, Lorenzo Galati-Giordano +1
Multi-link Operation (MLO), arguably the most disruptive feature introduced in IEEE 802.11be, will cater for delay-sensitive applications by using multiple radio interfaces concurr…
Understanding Multi-link Operation in Wi-Fi 7: Performance, Anomalies, and Solutions
Marc Carrascosa-Zamacois, Giovanni Geraci, Lorenzo Galati-Giordano +2
Will Wi-Fi 7, conceived to support extremely high throughput, also deliver consistently low delay? The best hope seems to lie in allowing next-generation devices to access multiple…
Performance and Coexistence Evaluation of IEEE 802.11be Multi-link Operation
Marc Carrascosa-Zamacois, Lorenzo Galati-Giordano, Anders Jonsson +2
Wi-Fi 7 is already in the making, and Multi-Link Operation (MLO) is one of the main features proposed in its correspondent IEEE 802.11be amendment. MLO will allow devices to coordi…
On the Latency of IEEE 802.11ax WLANs with Parameterized Spatial Reuse
Eloise de Carvalho Rodrigues, Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez, Lorenzo Galati Giordano +1
In this article, we evaluate the performance of the parameterized spatial reuse (PSR) framework of IEEE 802.11ax, mainly focusing on its impact on transmission latency. Based on de…
IEEE 802.11be: Wi-Fi 7 Strikes Back
Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez, David Lopez-Perez, Lorenzo Galati-Giordano +1
As hordes of data-hungry devices challenge its current capabilities, Wi-Fi strikes back with 802.11be, alias Wi-Fi 7. This brand-new amendment promises a (r)evolution of unlicensed…
Cell-free Massive MIMO for UAV Communications
Carmen D'Andrea, Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez, Giovanni Geraci +2
We study support for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications through a cell-free massive MIMO architecture. Under the general assumption that the propagation channel between t…
IEEE 802.11be Extremely High Throughput: The Next Generation of Wi-Fi Technology Beyond 802.11ax
David López-Pérez, Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez, Lorenzo Galati-Giordano +2
Wi-Fi technology is continuously innovating to cater to the growing customer demands, driven by the digitalisation of everything, both in the home as well as the enterprise and hot…
Downlink Performance of Uplink Fractional Power Control in 5G Massive MIMO Systems
Paolo Baracca, Lorenzo Galati Giordano, Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez +2
Uplink power control is an efficient scheme to mitigate pilot contamination in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In this work, we provide a comprehensive study…
The Essential Guide to Realizing 5G-Connected UAVs with Massive MIMO
Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez, Giovanni Geraci, David López-Pérez +3
What will it take for drones -- and the whole associated ecosystem -- to take off? Arguably, infallible command and control (C&C) channels for safe and autonomous flying, and high-…
Supporting UAV Cellular Communications through Massive MIMO
Giovanni Geraci, Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez, Lorenzo Galati Giordano +2
In this article, we provide a much-needed study of UAV cellular communications, focusing on the rates achievable for the UAV downlink command and control (C&C) channel. For this ke…
Uplink Sounding Reference Signal Coordination to Combat Pilot Contamination in 5G Massive MIMO
Lorenzo Galati Giordano, Luca Campanalonga, David Lopez-Perez +4
To guarantee the success of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), one of the main challenges to solve is the efficient management of pilot contamination. Allocation of ful…