# IEEE Transactions on Communications

## Issue 6 • June 2017

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Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• ### IEEE Communications Society

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): C2
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• ### Construction of MDS Convolutional Error-Correcting Network Codes Over Cyclic Networks

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2305 - 2318
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Recently, the refined singleton bound over acyclic networks was extended to convolutional error-correcting network codes over cyclic networks using extended coding vectors. In this paper, it is shown that constructing an MDS code is equivalent to constructing a multicast code. This is used to develop an algorithm for constructing MDS field-based codes over acyclic networks when the sinks know the ... View full abstract»

• ### How to Boost the Throughput of HARQ With Off-the-Shelf Codes

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2319 - 2331
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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In this paper, we propose a coding strategy designed to enhance the throughput of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmissions over independent identically distributed block-fading channels with the channel state information unknown at the transmitter. We use a joint packet coding where the same channel block is logically shared among many packets. To reduce the encoding and decoding compl... View full abstract»

• ### On the Construction of Local Parities for $(r, t)$ -Availability in Distributed Storage

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2332 - 2344
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Motivated by applications involving hot data, the notion of (r, t)-availability was introduced, where a symbol is said to have (r, t)-availability if it can be reconstructed, respectively, from t disjoint repair alternatives of other symbols, each of size at most r. The key to constructing a family of locally repairable codes with (r, t)-availability is the design of a membership matrix for dividi... View full abstract»

• ### Performance Analysis of LDPC-Coded Diversity Combining on Rayleigh Fading Channels With Impulsive Noise

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2345 - 2356
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Spatial diversity is an effective method to mitigate the effects of fading, and when used in conjunction with low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, it can achieve excellent error-correcting performance. Noise added at each branch of the diversity combiner is generally assumed to be additive white Gaussian noise, but there are many applications where the received signal is impaired by noise with a... View full abstract»

• ### Transmit Antenna Selection for Power Adaptive Underlay Cognitive Radio With Instantaneous Interference Constraint

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2357 - 2367
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The high hardware cost associated with multiple antennas at the secondary transmitter of an underlay cognitive radio (CR) can be reduced by antenna selection. This paper analyzes different power adaptive transmit antenna selection (TAS) schemes for an underlay CR, which ensure that the instantaneous interference caused by the secondary transmitter to the primary receiver is below a predetermined l... View full abstract»

• ### Power Allocation Optimization for Energy-Efficient Massive MIMO Aided Multi-Pair Decode-and-Forward Relay Systems

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2368 - 2381
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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We investigate power allocation optimization for global energy efficiency (GEE) maximization in the massive multiple-input multiple-output technique aided multi-pair one-way decode-and-forward relay systems. Assuming that the minimum mean-square error channel estimator and zero-forcing transceivers are employed at the relay, we first derive an accurate closed-form expression of the GEE of this com... View full abstract»

• ### Massive MIMO Systems With IQ Imbalance: Channel Estimation and Sum Rate Limits

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2382 - 2396
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In this paper, we study the impact of in-phase and quadrature imbalance (IQI) on single-cell multiuser multiple-input multiple-output systems with large antenna arrays. Moreover, we consider a time-division duplex system, where we assume uplink/downlink channel reciprocity in the downlink precoding design. First, we investigate the effect of transceiver IQI on the uplink channel estimation by deri... View full abstract»

• ### Expectation-Maximization-Based Channel Estimation for Multiuser MIMO Systems

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2397 - 2410
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Multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) transmission techniques have been popularly used to improve the spectral efficiency and user experience. However, due to the coarse knowledge of channel state information at the transmitter, the quality of transmit precoding to control multiuser interference is degraded, and hence, co-scheduled user equipment may suffer from large residual multius... View full abstract»

• ### Optimal Rate-Diverse Wireless Network Coding

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2411 - 2426
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This paper proposes an encoding/decoding framework for achieving the optimal channel capacities of the two-user broadcast channel where each user (receiver) has the message targeted for the other user (receiver) as side information. Since the link qualities of the channels from the base station to the two users are different, their respective single-user non-broadcast channel capacities are also d... View full abstract»

• ### Generalized Satisfaction Equilibrium for Service-Level Provisioning in Wireless Networks

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2427 - 2437
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In this paper, a generalization of the satisfaction equilibrium (SE) for games in satisfaction form (SF) is presented. This new solution concept is referred to as the generalized satisfaction equilibrium (GSE). In games in SF, players choose their actions to satisfy an individual constraint that depends on the actions of all the others. At a GSE, players that are unsatisfied are unable to unilater... View full abstract»

• ### Availability Analysis and Optimization in CoMP and CA-enabled HetNets

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2438 - 2450
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Traditional cellular networks are moving toward heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets) to satisfy the stringent demand for data rates and capacity. To enable the new applications in 5G, such as haptic communications, we face new challenges of achieving high availability with low latency in HetNets. In this paper, we introduce coordinated multi-point (CoMP) and carrier aggregation (CA) technique... View full abstract»

• ### Mission Aware Contact Plan Design in Resource-Limited Small Satellite Networks

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2451 - 2466
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Small satellite networks (SSNs) are playing an increasing role in nowadays earth observation due to their less development cost and energy consumption. In SSNs, it is pivotal to transmit a huge amount of data for differentiated missions to ground stations. Nevertheless, due to limited transponders and energy budget, not all contacts, i.e., potential available communication links, are feasible in d... View full abstract»

• ### Delay-Sensitive Area Spectral Efficiency: A Performance Metric for Delay-Constrained Green Networks

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2467 - 2480
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This paper introduces a new metric, referred to as delay-sensitive area spectral efficiency (DASE), to analyze the performance of delay-constrained wireless networks. We study DASE in different point-to-point, spectrum sharing, interference, and Poisson-point process-based dense network configurations and with different levels of channel state information (CSI) at the transmitters. Also, we determ... View full abstract»

• ### On the Capacity of Bandlimited Optical Intensity Channels With Gaussian Noise

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2481 - 2493
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We determine the lower and upper bounds on the capacity of bandlimited optical intensity channels (BLOIC) with white Gaussian noise. Three types of input power constraints are considered: 1) only an average power constraint; 2) only a peak power constraint; and 3) an average and a peak power constraint. Capacity lower bounds are derived by a two-step process including: 1) for each type of constrai... View full abstract»

• ### Linear Transceiver Designs for MIMO Indoor Visible Light Communications Under Lighting Constraints

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2494 - 2508
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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In this paper, we study linear transceiver designs for indoor visible light communications (VLCs) with multiple light emitting diodes (LEDs). Specifically, we investigate VLCs including white emitting diodes and VLCs including red/green/blue (RGB) LEDs. The transmitter precoding and the offset are jointly designed by considering certain key practical lighting constraints, such as optical power, no... View full abstract»

• ### Multi-User Visible Light Communication Broadcast Channels With Zero-Forcing Precoding

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2509 - 2521
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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This paper studies zero-forcing (ZF) precoding designs for multi-user multiple-input single-output visible light communication (VLC) broadcast channels. In such broadcast systems, the main challenging issue arises from the presence of multi-user interference (MUI) among non-coordinated users. In order to completely suppress the MUI, ZF precoding, which is originally designed for radio frequency (R... View full abstract»

• ### Energy-Efficient Secrecy in Wireless Networks Based on Random Jamming

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2522 - 2533
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This paper considers secure energy-efficient routing in the presence of multiple passive eavesdroppers. Previous work in this area has considered secure routing assuming probabilistic or exact knowledge of the location and channel-state-information (CSI) of each eavesdropper. In wireless networks, however, the locations and CSIs of passive eavesdroppers are not known, making it challenging to guar... View full abstract»

• ### Iterative Synchronization for Dually-Polarized Independent Transmission Streams

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2534 - 2542
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In this paper, we investigate a wireless communication scenario, where polarization multiplexing is exploited to increase the spectral efficiency. Independent modems over each polarization are considered, with communication links affected by phase noise and cross-polarization interference (XPI). We devise a novel per-polarization soft decision-directed iterative receiver with separate a posteriori... View full abstract»

• ### A Synthetic Statistical MIMO PLC Channel Model Applied to an In-Home Scenario

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2543 - 2553
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This paper proposes a synthetic statistical top-down MIMO power line communications channel model based on a pure phenomenological approach. The basic idea consists of directly synthesizing the experimental channel statistical properties to obtain an extremely compact model that requires a small set of parameters. The model is derived from the analysis of the in-home 2 × 3 MIMO PLC channel ... View full abstract»

• ### Universal Filtered Multi-Carrier Transmission With Adaptive Active Interference Cancellation

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2554 - 2567
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Universal filtered multi-carrier (UFMC) is one of the enabling techniques for 5G, which supports sliced spectrum by filtering successive sub-bands. The filter design is an essential and challenging issue, which is critical to the performance of UFMC. In this paper, we propose a novel UFMC scheme, namely, UFMC-AIC, which incorporates active interference cancellation into UFMC so as to mitigate the ... View full abstract»

• ### Optimal Channel Shortener Design for Reduced- State Soft-Output Viterbi Equalizer in Single-Carrier Systems

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2568 - 2582
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We consider optimal channel shortener design for a reduced-state soft-output Viterbi equalizer (RS-SOVE) in single-carrier systems. To use RS-SOVE, three receiver filters need to be designed: a prefilter, a target response, and a feedback filter. The collection of these three filters are commonly referred to as the “channel shortener.” Conventionally, the channel shortener is designe... View full abstract»

• ### On the Efficient Simulation of Outage Probability in a Log-Normal Fading Environment

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2583 - 2593
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The outage probability (OP) of the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) is an important metric that is used to evaluate the performance of wireless systems. One difficulty toward assessing the OP is that, in realistic scenarios, closed-form expressions cannot be derived. This is, for instance, the case of the Log-normal environment, in which evaluating the OP of the SINR amounts to compu... View full abstract»

• ### A Communication Theoretical Analysis of Multiple-Access Channel Capacity in Magneto-Inductive Wireless Networks

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2594 - 2607
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Magneto-inductive (MI) wireless communications is an emerging subject with a rich set of applications, including local area networks for the Internet-of-Things, wireless body area networks, in-body and on-chip communications, and underwater and underground sensor networks as a low-cost alternative to radio frequency, acoustic or optical methods. Practical MI networks include multiple access channe... View full abstract»

## Aims & Scope

IEEE Transactions on Communications focuses on all telecommunications including telephone, telegraphy, facsimile, and point-to-point television by electromagnetic propagation.

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University of Texas at Dallas