Abstract:
Methods and systems for assigning users to nodes include assigning user devices to respective macro nodes in a wireless network. Each of the user devices is assigned to a respective pico node in the wireless network. Each respective pico node is associated with the same macro node that the respective user device is assigned to. Resource allocation fractions are assigned to all pico nodes and all macro nodes in the wireless network based on the assignment of each of the plurality of user devices respective macro nodes and pico nodes.
Abstract:
A computer-implemented method for establishing communication links in a millimeter wave (mmWave) network by solving a linear integer packing problem is presented. The computer-implemented method includes determining active communication links between a plurality of transmitters and a plurality of receivers, setting each active communication link to have any arbitrary chosen weight or priority, and setting a minimum link quality threshold for each active communication link and subjecting each active communication link to constraints. Detected phantom constraints are mitigated by introducing new constraints with binary coefficients and by modifying one or more existing constraints by setting a number of coefficients within the existing constraints to zero.
Abstract:
A method implemented in an access point (AP) having N antennas used in a wireless communications system including two first client devices each of which has M antennas and two second client devices each of which has N antennas, where M and N are even is disclosed. The method comprises: performing interference alignment (IA) in common vector spaces; and delivering M+N streams. Other methods, systems, and apparatuses also are disclosed.
Abstract:
A method for managing a power line communication network in a multi-flow environment. The method includes determining an average throughput between each pair of nodes acting in isolation within the power line communication network, defining logical zones by grouping each pair of nodes if the average throughput between the pair of nodes exceeds a first threshold, wherein the logical zones include a plurality of strongly coupled zones. The method further includes determining an aggregate throughput for a pair of flows between randomly selected pairs of nodes acting concurrently between the plurality of strongly coupled zones, determining a plurality of pair of flows that can be concurrently operated when the aggregate throughput exceeds the average throughput, estimating a resulting throughput of the plurality of pair of flows that can be concurrently operated, and optimizing a schedule for the plurality of pair of flows based on the resulting throughput.
Abstract:
A system and method are provided. The method includes a base station receiving a plurality of tasks from a plurality of user devices, each of the plurality of tasks involving a respective one of multiple sets of jobs. The method further includes a load balancer generating task allocations for the plurality of tasks, responsive to receiving the plurality of tasks from the base station. A unique task ID is generated for and assigned to each task, from which a task allocation is generated by the load balancer. The task allocations for the plurality of tasks are generated such that all the jobs received from a respective same one of the plurality of user devices are assigned to a same one of the worker entities in the set. The method also includes a set of worker entities performing the plurality of tasks in accordance with the task allocations.
Abstract:
Methods and systems for beam forming, implemented in a base station used in a communication system, include measuring channel state information (CSI) for a number of active phased-array antennas less than a full number of phased-array antennas. Analog beam forming weights are determined using the measured CSI. An optimal digital precoder is determined from the analog beam forming weights. The analog beam forming weights and optimal digital precoder are applied to one phased-array antenna.
Abstract:
Methods and systems are provided for cancelling self-interference in a wireless communication system is provided. One of the methods includes placing a first set of antennas in an omni-directional antenna pattern, wherein the first set of antennas includes a plurality of directional antenna elements in a node. The method further includes forming, using the first set of antennas, an isolated null region wherein at least one antenna in a second set of antennas is used for reception or transmission, wherein the second set of antennas includes at least one omni-directional antenna in the same node.
Abstract:
Methods and systems for beam forming include measuring channel state information for a set of different codebook entries. An angle of arrival (AoA) distribution is determined with a processor using compressive testing based on the measured channel state information. A set of phase shift values is determined based on the determined AoA to perform phased array beamforming.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for adaptive video delivery over a network, including receiving a plurality of types of data flows from one or more network base stations; separating resource management of the plurality of types of data flows, wherein the data flows include one or more of adaptive video streaming flows, regular video traffic flows, and other traffic flows by resource slicing. A scheduling framework for adaptive video delivery is instantiated; available choices of video bit rates for all users is received as input to an allocator; optimal allocation of resources is computed for all users by determining and selecting an optimal bit rate for each user using the allocator; the optimal bit rate being sent to an enforcer; resources across flows are isolated using the enforcer; and the optimal bit rate for each user is enforced using per-flow traffic shapers to maximize resource utilization without reaching network capacity.
Abstract:
A method for managing a power line communication network in a multi-flow environment. The method includes determining an average throughput between each pair of nodes acting in isolation within the power line communication network, defining logical zones by grouping each pair of nodes if the average throughput between the pair of nodes exceeds a first threshold, wherein the logical zones include a plurality of strongly coupled zones. The method further includes determining an aggregate throughput for a pair of flows between randomly selected pairs of nodes acting concurrently between the plurality of strongly coupled zones, determining a plurality of pair of flows that can be concurrently operated when the aggregate throughput exceeds the average throughput, estimating a resulting throughput of the plurality of pair of flows that can be concurrently operated, and optimizing a schedule for the plurality of pair of flows based on the resulting throughput.