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Mohsen Tajallifar

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arXiv2026

Robust and Feasible QoS-Aware mmWave Massive MIMO Hybrid Beamforming

Hybrid beamforming (HB) with quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning per stream in millimeter waves is indispensable in 5G/6G networks. HB includes baseband and radio frequency (RF) beamforming, and requires error-free channel state information (CSI), which is erroneous in practice. So there is a need for efficient, feasible, robust, and QoS-aware HB. To achieve this, we mitigate CSI uncertainty via baseband beamforming, and we steer the RF beamformer by using the estimates of the channel's eigenvectors. In doing so, we consider the effective channel's uncertainty region instead of the uncertainty region of the channel itself, as the former is smaller than the latter, requiring less transmit power to satisfy the QoS constraint. We also detect and eliminate the infeasible data streams. Our iterative scheme (which is based on the cutting-set method) for baseband beamforming satisfies the mean-squared error (MSE) constraint per stream, where a limited number of constraints are considered instead of infinitely many constraints. In our low-complexity scheme, we derive a simple sufficient condition to check the feasibility of each stream, we diagonalize the effective channel at the baseband precoder, and we use minimum MSE combining at the baseband combiner. Extensive simulations validate our formulations and theoretical derivations.

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arXiv2021

Energy-Efficient Task Offloading Under E2E Latency Constraints

In this paper, we propose a novel resource management scheme that jointly allocates the transmit power and computational resources in a centralized radio access network architecture. The network comprises a set of computing nodes to which the requested tasks of different users are offloaded. The optimization problem minimizes the energy consumption of task offloading while takes the end-to-end latency, i.e., the transmission, execution, and propagation latencies of each task, into account. We aim to allocate the transmit power and computational resources such that the maximum acceptable latency of each task is satisfied. Since the optimization problem is non-convex, we divide it into two sub-problems, one for transmit power allocation and another for task placement and computational resource allocation. Transmit power is allocated via the convex-concave procedure. In addition, a heuristic algorithm is proposed to jointly manage computational resources and task placement. We also propose a feasibility analysis that finds a feasible subset of tasks. Furthermore, a disjoint method that separately allocates the transmit power and the computational resources is proposed as the baseline of comparison. A lower bound on the optimal solution of the optimization problem is also derived based on exhaustive search over task placement decisions and utilizing Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions. Simulation results show that the joint method outperforms the disjoint method in terms of acceptance ratio. Simulations also show that the optimality gap of the joint method is less than 5%.

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arXiv2020

E2E Migration Strategies Towards 5G: Long-term Migration Plan and Evolution Roadmap

After freezing the first phase of the fifth generation of wireless networks (5G) standardization, it finally goes live now and the rollout of the commercial launch (most in fixed 5G broadband services) and migration has been started. However, some challenges are arising in the deployment, integration of each technology, and the interoperability in the network of the communication service providers (CSPs). At the same time, the evolution of 5G is not clear and many questions arise such as whether 5G has long-term evolution or when 5G will change to a next-generation one. This paper provides long-term migration options and paths towards 5G considering many key factors such as the cost, local/national data traffic, marketing, and the standardization trends in the radio access network (RAN), the transport network (TN), the core network (CN), and E2E network. Moreover, we outline some 5G evolution road maps emphasizing on the technologies, standards, and service time lines. The proposed migration paths can be the answer to some CSPs concerns about how to do long-term migration to 5G and beyond.

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