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Showing papers on "Interference (wave propagation) published in 2014"


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed empirically-based largescale propagation path loss models for 5G cellular network planning in the millimeter-wave spectrum, based on real-world measurements at 28 GHz and 38 GHz in New York City and Austin, Texas, respectively.
Abstract: This article presents empirically-based largescale propagation path loss models for fifthgeneration cellular network planning in the millimeter-wave spectrum, based on real-world measurements at 28 GHz and 38 GHz in New York City and Austin, Texas, respectively. We consider industry-standard path loss models used for today’s microwave bands, and modify them to fit the propagation data measured in these millimeter-wave bands for cellular planning. Network simulations with the proposed models using a commercial planning tool show that roughly three times more base stations are required to accommodate 5G networks (cell radii up to 200 m) compared to existing 3G and 4G systems (cell radii of 500 m to 1 km) when performing path loss simulations based on arbitrary pointing angles of directional antennas. However, when directional antennas are pointed in the single best directions at the base station and mobile, coverage range is substantially improved with little increase in interference, thereby reducing the required number of 5G base stations. Capacity gains for random pointing angles are shown to be 20 times greater than today’s fourth-generation Long Term Evolution networks, and can be further improved when using directional antennas pointed in the strongest transmit and receive directions with the help of beam combining techniques.

498 citations


Proceedings ArticleDOI
01 Dec 2014
TL;DR: Considering the low altitude platform (LAP), the downlink coverage performance of DSCs is investigated and the optimal DSC altitude which leads to a maximum ground coverage and minimum required transmit power for a single DSC is derived.
Abstract: The use of drone small cells (DSCs) which are aerial wireless base stations that can be mounted on flying devices such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), is emerging as an effective technique for providing wireless services to ground users in a variety of scenarios. The efficient deployment of such DSCs while optimizing the covered area is one of the key design challenges. In this paper, considering the low altitude platform (LAP), the downlink coverage performance of DSCs is investigated. The optimal DSC altitude which leads to a maximum ground coverage and minimum required transmit power for a single DSC is derived. Furthermore, the problem of providing a maximum coverage for a certain geographical area using two DSCs is investigated in two scenarios; interference free and full interference between DSCs. The impact of the distance between DSCs on the coverage area is studied and the optimal distance between DSCs resulting in maximum coverage is derived. Numerical results verify our analytical results on the existence of optimal DSCs altitude/separation distance and provide insights on the optimal deployment of DSCs to supplement wireless network coverage.

436 citations


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TL;DR: The present review collects the most relevant developments of the past twenty years categorizing them into two main groups, such as common- and double path waveguide interferometers and the diverse sensor designs in order to contrast the advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches and sensor families.

258 citations


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TL;DR: The technical merits of weak value amplification techniques are analyzed and it is demonstrated that weak value techniques can put all of the Fisher information about the detected parameter into a small portion of the events and show how this fact alone gives technical advantages.
Abstract: ``Weak-value amplification,'' an interference effect that was introduced quantum mechanically, but can also be realized using classical electromagnetic waves, uses only a small fraction of the available events to make precise measurements. How can this be? Theorists reveal that weak-value amplification achieves that by funneling all the information into a small fraction of events.

199 citations


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TL;DR: This paper reconstructs the interference-plus-noise covariance matrix in a sparse way, instead of searching for an optimal diagonal loading factor for the sample covariance Matrix, to demonstrate that the performance of the proposed adaptive beamformer is almost always equal to the optimal value.

165 citations


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TL;DR: A regime of high visibility interference and nearly complete vacuum-fluctuation-induced phase diffusion between pulses is predicted and confirmed by measurement of pulse power statistics at the output of the interferometer.
Abstract: We demonstrate a high bit-rate quantum random number generator by interferometric detection of phase diffusion in a gain-switched DFB laser diode. Gain switching at few-GHz frequencies produces a train of bright pulses with nearly equal amplitudes and random phases. An unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer is used to interfere subsequent pulses and thereby generate strong random-amplitude pulses, which are detected and digitized to produce a high-rate random bit string. Using established models of semiconductor laser field dynamics, we predict a regime of high visibility interference and nearly complete vacuum-fluctuation-induced phase diffusion between pulses. These are confirmed by measurement of pulse power statistics at the output of the interferometer. Using a 5.825 GHz excitation rate and 14-bit digitization, we observe 43 Gbps quantum randomness generation.

152 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed an EM-lens enabled MIMO system, which integrates an EM lens with the large antenna array to focus the power of an incident wave to a small area of the antenna array, whereas the location of the focal area varies with the angle of arrival of the wave.
Abstract: Massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) techniques have been recently advanced to tremendously improve the performance of wireless communication networks. However, the use of very large antenna arrays at the base stations brings new issues, such as the significantly increased hardware and signal processing costs. In order to reap the performance gains of massive MIMO and yet reduce its cost, this paper proposes a novel system design by integrating an electromagnetic (EM) lens with the large antenna array, termed the EM-lens enabled MIMO. The EM lens has the capability of focusing the power of an incident wave to a small area of the antenna array, whereas the location of the focal area varies with the angle of arrival (AoA) of the wave. Hence, in scenarios where the arriving signals from geographically separated users have different AoAs, the EM-lens enabled receiver provides two new benefits, namely, energy focusing and spatial interference rejection. By taking into account the effects of imperfect channel estimation via pilot-assisted training, in this paper, we analytically show that the average received signal-to-noise ratio in both the single-user and multiuser uplink transmissions can be improved by the EM-lens enabled system. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the proposed design makes it possible to considerably reduce the hardware and signal processing costs with only slight degradations in performance. To this end, two complexity/cost reduction schemes are proposed, which are small-MIMO processing with parallel receiver filtering applied over subgroups of antennas to reduce the computational complexity, and channel covariance based antenna selection to reduce the required number of radio frequency chains. Numerical results are provided to corroborate our analysis and show the great potential advantages of our proposed EM-lens enabled MIMO system for next generation cellular networks.

141 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate robust, high-speed random number generation using interference of the steady-state emission of guaranteed random phases, obtained through gain-switching a semiconductor laser diode.
Abstract: We demonstrate robust, high-speed random number generation using interference of the steady-state emission of guaranteed random phases, obtained through gain-switching a semiconductor laser diode. Steady-state emission tolerates large temporal pulse misalignments and therefore significantly improves the interference quality. Using an 8-bit digitizer followed by a finite-impulse-response unbiasing algorithm, we achieve random number generation rates of 8 and 20 Gb/s, for laser repetition rates of 1 and 2.5 GHz, respectively, with a ±20% tolerance in the interferometer differential delay. We also report a generation rate of 80 Gb/s using partially phase-correlated short pulses. In relation to the field of quantum key distribution, our results confirm the gain-switched laser diode as a suitable light source, capable of providing phase-randomized coherent pulses at a clock rate of up to 2.5 GHz.

140 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, an analytical co-channel interference model was proposed for multi-cell multiple-input multi-output (MIMO) cellular networks, and the impact of different channel parameters on the new interference model is analyzed numerically.
Abstract: Characterization and modeling of co-channel interference is critical for the design and performance evaluation of realistic multi-cell cellular networks. In this paper, based on alpha stable processes, an analytical co-channel interference model is proposed for multi-cell multiple-input multi-output (MIMO) cellular networks. The impact of different channel parameters on the new interference model is analyzed numerically. Furthermore, the exact normalized downlink average capacity is derived for a multi-cell MIMO cellular network with co-channel interference. Moreover, the closed-form normalized downlink average capacity is derived for cell-edge users in the multi-cell multiple-input single-output (MISO) cooperative cellular network with co-channel interference. From the new co-channel interference model and capacity, the impact of cooperative antennas and base stations on cell-edge user performance in the multi-cell multi-antenna cellular network is investigated by numerical methods. Numerical results show that cooperative transmission can improve the capacity performance of multi-cell multi-antenna cooperative cellular networks, especially in a scenario with a high density of interfering base stations. The capacity performance gain is degraded with the increased number of cooperative antennas or base stations.

137 citations


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TL;DR: Time splitting schemes can outperform the ideal scheme and the PS scheme in interference dominated scenarios and are proposed as two practical time splitting schemes, namely the time-division mode switching (TDMS) and time- division multiple access (TDMA), in addition to the existing power splitting scheme.
Abstract: This paper considers the transmitter design for wireless information and energy transfer (WIET) in a multiple-input single-output (MISO) interference channel (IFC). The design problem is to maximize the system throughput subject to individual energy harvesting constraints and power constraints. It is observed that the ideal scheme, where the receivers simultaneously perform information detection (ID) and energy harvesting (EH) from the received signal, may not always achieve the best tradeoff between information transfer and energy harvesting, but simple practical schemes based on time splitting may perform better. We therefore propose two practical time splitting schemes, namely the time-division mode switching (TDMS) and time-division multiple access (TDMA), in addition to the existing power splitting (PS) scheme. In the two-user scenario, we show that beamforming is optimal to all the schemes. Moreover, the design problems associated with the TDMS and TDMA schemes admit semi-analytical solutions. In the general K-user scenario, a successive convex approximation method is proposed to handle the WIET problems associated with the ideal scheme, the PS scheme and the TDMA scheme, which are known NP-hard in general. Simulation results show that none of the schemes under consideration can always dominate another in terms of the sum rate performance. Specifically, it is observed that stronger cross-link channel power improves the achievable sum rate of time splitting schemes but degrades the sum rate performance of the ideal scheme and PS scheme. As a result, time splitting schemes can outperform the ideal scheme and the PS scheme in interference dominated scenarios.

132 citations


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TL;DR: An architecture for arbitrarily scalable boson sampling using two nested fiber loops using time-bin encoding, whereby the incident photons form a pulse train, which enters the loops.
Abstract: We present an architecture for arbitrarily scalable boson sampling using two nested fiber loops. The architecture has fixed experimental complexity, irrespective of the size of the desired interferometer, whose scale is limited only by fiber and switch loss rates. The architecture employs time-bin encoding, whereby the incident photons form a pulse train, which enters the loops. Dynamically controlled loop coupling ratios allow the construction of the arbitrary linear optics interferometers required for boson sampling. The architecture employs only a single point of interference and may thus be easier to stabilize than other approaches. The scheme has polynomial complexity and could be realized using demonstrated present-day technologies.

Proceedings ArticleDOI
01 Nov 2014
TL;DR: Numerical results show that the non-orthogonal system based on the proposed successive interference cancelation amenable multiple access (SAMA) paradigm employing the iterative MPA achieves significant performances gain over the orthogonal one for the same spectral efficiency with affordable complexity.
Abstract: In this work, we introduce a novel multiple access scheme which is based on the joint design of the system signature matrix at the transmitter and the successive interference cancelation (SIC) based detector at the receiver. The symbols of the different users are judiciously spread in the frequency (space) domain, which can be effectively exploited by the SIC based technique, such as the iterative message-passing algorithm (MPA), to cancel the multi-user interference as well as to obtain diversity gain. Numerical results show that the non-orthogonal system based on the proposed successive interference cancelation amenable multiple access (SAMA) paradigm employing the iterative MPA achieves significant performances gain over the orthogonal one for the same spectral efficiency with affordable complexity.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the optimal transmit beamforming vector has a simple structure with very intuitive properties and interpretations and provide a theoretical foundation for practical low-complexity beamforming schemes.
Abstract: Transmit beamforming is a versatile technique for signal transmission from an array of $N$ antennas to one or multiple users [1]. In wireless communications, the goal is to increase the signal power at the intended user and reduce interference to non-intended users. A high signal power is achieved by transmitting the same data signal from all antennas, but with different amplitudes and phases, such that the signal components add coherently at the user. Low interference is accomplished by making the signal components add destructively at non-intended users. This corresponds mathematically to designing beamforming vectors (that describe the amplitudes and phases) to have large inner products with the vectors describing the intended channels and small inner products with non-intended user channels. While it is fairly easy to design a beamforming vector that maximizes the signal power at the intended user, it is difficult to strike a perfect balance between maximizing the signal power and minimizing the interference leakage. In fact, the optimization of multiuser transmit beamforming is generally a nondeterministic polynomial-time (NP) hard problem [2]. Nevertheless, this lecture shows that the optimal transmit beamforming has a simple structure with very intuitive properties and interpretations. This structure provides a theoretical foundation for practical low-complexity beamforming schemes. (See this lecture note for the complete abstract/introduction)

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors exploit tunable distinguishability to reveal the full spectrum of multi-photon non-classical interference, which is exploited in universal quantum gates as well as in purpose-built quantum computers that solve the Boson sampling problem.
Abstract: Non-classical interference of photons lies at the heart of optical quantum information processing. This effect is exploited in universal quantum gates as well as in purpose-built quantum computers that solve the BosonSampling problem. Although non-classical interference is often associated with perfectly indistinguishable photons this only represents the degenerate case, hard to achieve under realistic experimental conditions. Here we exploit tunable distinguishability to reveal the full spectrum of multi-photon non-classical interference. This we investigate in theory and experiment by controlling the delay times of three photons injected into an integrated interferometric network. We derive the entire coincidence landscape and identify transition matrix immanants as ideally suited functions to describe the generalized case of input photons with arbitrary distinguishability. We introduce a compact description by utilizing a natural basis which decouples the input state from the interferometric network, thereby providing a useful tool for even larger photon numbers.

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TL;DR: A novel fiber in-line Mach-Zehnder interferometer with a large fringe visibility of up to 17 dB, which was fabricated by misaligned splicing a short section of thin core fiber between two sections of standard single-mode fiber could be used to realize simultaneous measurement of tensile strain and temperature.
Abstract: We demonstrated a novel fiber in-line Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) with a large fringe visibility of up to 17 dB, which was fabricated by misaligned splicing a short section of thin core fiber between two sections of standard single-mode fiber. Such a MZI could be used to realize simultaneous measurement of tensile strain and temperature. Tensile strain was measured with an ultrahigh sensitivity of −0.023 dB/μɛ via the intensity modulation of interference fringes, and temperature was measured with a high sensitivity of 51 pm/°C via the wavelength modulation of interference fringe. That is, the MZI-based sensor overcomes the cross-sensitivity problem between tensile strain and temperature by means of different demodulation methods. Moreover, this proposed sensor exhibits the advantages of low-cost, extremely simple structure, compact size (only about 10 mm), and good repeatability.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the outage behavior of dual-hop multiuser multirelay cognitive radio networks under spectrum-sharing constraints is investigated and it is revealed that the diversity order of the considered system is not affected by the interference and is equal to N + L for both decode-and-forward (DF) and amplify-and -forward (AF) relaying protocols.
Abstract: In this paper, the outage behavior of dual-hop multiuser multirelay cognitive radio networks under spectrum-sharing constraints is investigated. In the proposed cognitive radio network, the secondary network is composed of one secondary-user (SU) source that communicates with one out of L destinations through a direct link and also via the help of one out of N relays by using an efficient relay-destination selection scheme. Additionally, a selection combining (SC) scheme to select the best link (direct or dual-hop link) from the SU source is employed at the selected SU destination. Adopting an underlay approach, the SU communication is performed accounting for an interference constraint, where the overall transmit power is governed by the interference at the primary-user (PU) receiver, as well as by the maximum transmission power available at the respective nodes. Closed-form expressions for the outage probability are derived, from which an asymptotic analysis reveals that the diversity order of the considered system is not affected by the interference and is equal to N + L for both decode-and-forward (DF) and amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying protocols. The analytical results are corroborated by Monte Carlo simulations, and insightful discussions are provided.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors re-examine the fundamental notion of interference in wireless networks by contrasting traditional approaches to new concepts that handle interference in a creative way, and present interference alignment technique and its extension of signal alignment techniques.
Abstract: This article re-examines the fundamental notion of interference in wireless networks by contrasting traditional approaches to new concepts that handle interference in a creative way. Specifically, we discuss the fundamental limits of the interference channel and present the interference alignment technique and its extension of signal alignment techniques. Contrary to this traditional view, which treats interference as a detrimental phenomenon, we introduce three concepts that handle interference as a useful resource. The first concept exploits interference at the modulation level and leads to simple multiuser downlink precoding that provides significant energy savings. The second concept uses radio frequency radiation for energy harvesting and handles interference as a source of green energy. The last concept refers to a secrecy environment and uses interference as an efficient means to jam potential eavesdroppers. These three techniques bring a new vision about interference in wireless networks and motivate a plethora of potential new applications and services.

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TL;DR: In this article, the performance of MRC in the presence of spatially correlated interference across antennas is analyzed for the case of two receive antennas and upper and lower bounds for the general case are derived.
Abstract: While the performance of maximum ratio combining (MRC) is well understood for a single isolated link, the same is not true in the presence of interference, which is typically correlated across antennas due to the common locations of interferers. For tractability, prior work focuses on the two extreme cases where the interference power across antennas is either assumed to be fully correlated or fully uncorrelated. In this paper, we address this shortcoming and characterize the performance of MRC in the presence of spatially-correlated interference across antennas. Modeling the interference field as a Poisson point process, we derive the exact distribution of the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) for the case of two receive antennas, and upper and lower bounds for the general case. Using these results, we study the diversity behavior of MRC and characterize the critical density of simultaneous transmissions for a given outage constraint. The exact SIR distribution is also useful in benchmarking simpler correlation models. We show that the full-correlation assumption is considerably pessimistic (up to 30% higher outage probability for typical values) and the no-correlation assumption is significantly optimistic compared to the true performance.

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TL;DR: Numerical results in terms of received PSD probability distribution and probability of interference are presented to compare the proposed statistical-physical model with the outcomes of simulations.
Abstract: Molecular nanonetworks stand at the intersection of nanotechnology, biotechnology, and network engineering. The research on molecular nanonetworks proposes the interconnection of nanomachines through molecule exchange. Amongst different solutions for the transport of molecules between nanomachines, the most general is based on free diffusion. The objective of this paper is to provide a statistical–physical modeling of the interference when multiple transmitting nanomachines emit molecules simultaneously. This modeling stems from the same assumptions used in interference study for radio communications, namely, a spatial Poisson distribution of transmitters having independent and identically distributed emissions, while the specific molecule emissions model is in agreement with a chemical description of the transmitters. As a result of the property of the received molecular signal of being a stationary Gaussian Process (GP), the statistical–physical modeling is operated on its Power Spectral Density (PSD), for which it is possible to obtain an analytical expression of the log-characteristic function. This expression leads to the estimation of the received PSD probability distribution, which provides a complete model of the interference in diffusion-based molecular nanonetworks. Numerical results in terms of received PSD probability distribution and probability of interference are presented to compare the proposed statistical–physical model with the outcomes of simulations.

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TL;DR: Sparse reflections analysis (SRA) as mentioned in this paper removes general forms of multipath interference with robust techniques based on $L_1$ optimization, including interference with three or more paths and diffuse multipath resulting from Lambertian surfaces.
Abstract: A major issue with Time of Flight sensors is the presence of multipath interference. We present Sparse Reflections Analysis (SRA), an algorithm for removing this interference which has two main advantages. First, it allows for very general forms of multipath, including interference with three or more paths, diffuse multipath resulting from Lambertian surfaces, and combinations thereof. SRA removes this general multipath with robust techniques based on $L_1$ optimization. Second, due to a novel dimension reduction, we are able to produce a very fast version of SRA, which is able to run at frame rate. Experimental results on both synthetic data with ground truth, as well as real images of challenging scenes, validate the approach.

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TL;DR: In this article, a user-centric intercell interference coordination strategy is proposed for small cell networks, where each user selects the coordinating BSs based on the relative distance between the home BS and the interfering BSs, and thus interference nulling adapts to each user's own interference situation.
Abstract: Small cell networks are regarded as a promising candidate to meet the exponential growth of mobile data traffic in cellular networks. With a dense deployment of access points, spatial reuse will be improved, and uniform coverage can be provided. However, such performance gains cannot be achieved without effective intercell interference management. In this paper, a novel interference coordination strategy, called user-centric intercell interference nulling, is proposed for small cell networks. A main merit of the proposed strategy is its ability to effectively identify and mitigate the dominant interference for each user. Different from existing works, each user selects the coordinating base stations (BSs) based on the relative distance between the home BS and the interfering BSs, called the interference nulling (IN) range, and thus interference nulling adapts to each user's own interference situation. By adopting a random spatial network model, we derive an approximate expression of the successful transmission probability to the typical user, which is then used to determine the optimal IN range. Simulation results shall confirm the tightness of the approximation, and demonstrate significant performance gains (about 35%-40%) of the proposed coordination strategy, compared with the non-coordination case. Moreover, it is shown that the proposed strategy outperforms other interference nulling methods. Finally, the effect of imperfect channel state information (CSI) is investigated, where CSI is assumed to be obtained via limited feedback. It is shown that the proposed coordination strategy still provides significant performance gains even with a moderate number of feedback bits.

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TL;DR: A unifying model for noise, multiuser interference, and intersymbol interference is presented, where, under certain circumstances, interference can be approximated as a noise source that is emitting continuously.
Abstract: This paper considers the impact of external noise sources, including interfering transmitters, on a diffusive molecular communication system, where the impact is measured as the number of noise molecules expected to be observed at a passive receiver. A unifying model for noise, multiuser interference, and intersymbol interference is presented, where, under certain circumstances, interference can be approximated as a noise source that is emitting continuously. The model includes the presence of advection and molecule degradation. The time-varying and asymptotic impact is derived for a series of special cases, some of which facilitate closed-form solutions. Simulation results show the accuracy of the expressions derived for the impact of a continuously-emitting noise source, and show how approximating old intersymbol interference as a noise source can simplify the calculation of the expected bit error probability of a weighted sum detector.

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TL;DR: In this Letter, elastic waves in a disordered waveguide are studied and direct experimental evidence of the bimodal law is presented.
Abstract: Thirty years ago, theorists showed that a properly designed combination of incident waves could be fully transmitted through (or reflected by) a disordered medium, based on the existence of propagation channels which are essentially either closed or open (bimodal law). In this Letter, we study elastic waves in a disordered waveguide and present direct experimental evidence of the bimodal law. Full transmission and reflection are achieved. The wave field is monitored by laser interferometry and highlights the interference effects that take place within the scattering medium.

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TL;DR: Simulation results show that proper clustering combined with generalized IA precoder/equalizer design leads to significant gains on the achievable sum rate, and the importance of incorporating the aggregated intercluster interference in the design is considered.
Abstract: Interference alignment (IA) has been shown to be a promising technique for achieving the optimal capacity scaling of a multiuser interference channel at asymptotically high-signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). However, in practical communication systems, mitigating interference from all interferers via IA is not necessary since some users' interference have negligible effect due to large path-loss. Moreover, the feasibility constraint and the heavy signaling overhead hinder applying IA on interference from all interferers. Clustered IA puts users in disjoint clusters where IA is applied to users within each cluster. It provides a mechanism for mitigating the signaling overhead and maximizing the achievable rate. However, how to properly form IA clusters has not been well studied. We consider the application of clustered IA in a multiuser interference network with asymmetric channel attenuation at finite SNR. We model the interference network as a connected graph, transforming the clustering problem into a graph partitioning problem. By exploiting the variation on the interference levels from multiple interferers, efficient clustering algorithms are proposed such that clusters formed can capture strong interference as intracluster interference, leaving relatively weak interference as intercluster interference. Then, the intercluster interference can be coarsely modeled as noise. We also consider the precoder/equalizer design in a clustered system and show the importance of incorporating the aggregated intercluster interference in the design. Simulation results show that proper clustering combined with generalized IA precoder/equalizer design leads to significant gains on the achievable sum rate.

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TL;DR: The results demonstrated the potential of high frequency guided waves for hidden defect detection at critical and difficult to access locations in aerospace structures from a stand-off distance.

Proceedings ArticleDOI
05 May 2014
TL;DR: Measurement results obtained for Edinburgh, a representative European city, on detecting the presence of deployedWiFi APs via the mobile crowdsensing approach are reported and a cloud based WiFi router configuration service is outlined for better interference management with global awareness in urban areas.
Abstract: We present a mobile crowdsensing approach for urban WiFi characterization that leverages commodity smartphones and the natural mobility of people. Specifically, we report measurement results obtained for Edinburgh, a representative European city, on detecting the presence of deployedWiFi APs via the mobile crowdsensing approach. They show that few channels in 2.4GHz are heavily used; in contrast, there is hardly any activity in the 5GHz band even though relatively it has a greater number of available channels. Spatial analysis of spectrum usage reveals that mutual interference among nearby APs operating in the same channel can be a serious problem with around 10 APs contending with each other in many locations. We find that the characteristics of WiFi deployments at city-scale are similar to that of WiFi deployments in public spaces of different indoor environments. We validate our approach in comparison with wardriving, and also show that our findings generally match with previous studies based on other measurement approaches. As an application of the mobile crowdsensing based urban WiFi monitoring, we outline a cloud based WiFi router configuration service for better interference management with global awareness in urban areas.

Proceedings ArticleDOI
23 Jun 2014
TL;DR: Simulation results show that using the most recent FD radios in D2D systems can almost double the throughput of the D1D link.
Abstract: In this paper we investigate the applicability of inband full-duplex (FD) radios in device-to-device communication (D2D) in cellular systems. The key challenge in FD radio design is the large self-interference on receiver. It is not possible to completely cancel the self-interference in FD radios. Considering the residual of self-interference, we study the performance of system while D2D link is operating in half-duplex and full-duplex mode. A cellular system is considered while D2D users are exploiting the same resources with cellular users in uplink. We apply a power control method for D2D pair to limit the interference from them on base station. For interference management from cellular transmissions on D2D receivers, interference limited area method is used. Simulation results show that using the most recent FD radios in D2D systems can almost double the throughput of the D2D link.

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01 Sep 2014
TL;DR: A novel real-valued unipolar version of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) that is suitable for direct intensity modulation with direct detection of optical wireless systems including VLC is proposed.
Abstract: In the next major phase of mobile telecommunications standards “5G,” Visible Light Communication (VLC) technology or light fidelity (Li-Fi) has great potential to be a breakthrough technology in the future of wireless Internet access We propose a novel real-valued unipolar version of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) that is suitable for direct intensity modulation with direct detection (IM/DD) optical wireless systems including VLC Without additional forms of interference estimation and cancelation to recover the symbols, the Spectral and Energy Efficient OFDM (SEE-OFDM) almost doubles the spectral efficiency of unipolar optical OFDM formats In our scheme, multiple signals are generated and added/transmitted together, where both odd and even indexed subcarriers of the inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) operation carry data and are not affected by any kind of interference, (eg, clipping) Monte Carlo simulations under additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) show gains of up to 6dB in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) compared to the conventional energy-efficient asymmetrically clipped optical OFDM (ACO-OFDM) Moreover, a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction of 25dB is obtained as a bonus Therefore, advantages such as increased data rate and reduced PAPR make the proposed SEE-OFDM very attractive for optical wireless systems

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate control of two-photon interference in a chip-scale 3D multi-path interferometer, showing a reduced periodicity and enhanced visibility compared to single photon measurements.
Abstract: Integrated photonics promises solutions to questions of stability, complexity, and size in quantum optics. Advances in tunable and non-planar integrated platforms, such laser-inscribed photonics, continue to bring the realisation of quantum advantages in computation and metrology ever closer, perhaps most easily seen in multi-path interferometry. Here we demonstrate control of two-photon interference in a chip-scale 3D multi-path interferometer, showing a reduced periodicity and enhanced visibility compared to single photon measurements. Observed non-classical visibilities are widely tunable, and explained well by theoretical predictions based on classical measurements. With these predictions we extract a Fisher information approaching a theoretical maximum, demonstrating the capability of the device for quantum enhanced phase measurements.

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TL;DR: The proposed approach judiciously chooses the set of users to be aligned at each receiver as a subset of the cross-tier interferers, hence is termed selective IA, and numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of selective IA for both uplink and downlink interference management.
Abstract: This paper presents a novel cross-tier interference management solution for coexisting two-tier networks by exploiting cognition and coordination between tiers via the use of agile radios. The cognitive users sense their environment to determine the receivers they are interfering with, and adapt to it by designing their precoders using interference alignment (IA) in order to avoid causing performance degradation to nearby receivers. The proposed approach judiciously chooses the set of users to be aligned at each receiver as a subset of the cross-tier interferers, hence is termed selective IA. The proposed solution includes identification of the subspace in which cross-tier interference signals would be aligned followed by a distributed algorithm to identify the precoders needed at the selected interferers. The intra-tier interference is then dealt with using minimum mean squared error (MMSE) interference suppression. Numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of selective IA for both uplink and downlink interference management.