Department Publications

This paper introduces a model to study both single tier and multitier wireless communication systems consisting of a multitude of wireless access points (AP), and operating according to the classical opportunistic beamforming framework. The AP locations in the proposed network model are determined by using planar Poisson point processes. The extreme value distribution of signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) on a beam is of fundamental importance for obtaining performance bounds for such an opportunistic communication system. Two tight distribution approximation results are provided for the distribution of maximum SINR on a beam, which is hard to obtain due to correlation structure of the underlying inter-AP interference field, using key tools from stochastic geometry. These approximations hold for general path loss models that satisfy some mild conditions. Simulations and numerical evaluations …

The achievable average rate of a full-duplex (FD) multiple-input-single-output interference channel with linear transceiver structures is analyzed. The impact of transmit front-end noise is included in the analysis. Both cooperative and non-cooperative strategies for the FD interference channel are considered and the closed-form expressions are derived for the achievable average rate of each strategy.