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See detailFedFog: Network-Aware Optimization of Federated Learning over Wireless Fog-Cloud System
Nguyen, van Dinh UL; Chatzinotas, Symeon UL; Ottersten, Björn UL et al

in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (in press)

Federated learning (FL) is capable of performing large distributed machine learning tasks across multiple edge users by periodically aggregating trained local parameters. To address key challenges of ... [more ▼]

Federated learning (FL) is capable of performing large distributed machine learning tasks across multiple edge users by periodically aggregating trained local parameters. To address key challenges of enabling FL over a wireless fogcloud system (e.g., non-i.i.d. data, users’ heterogeneity), we first propose an efficient FL algorithm based on Federated Averaging (called FedFog) to perform the local aggregation of gradient parameters at fog servers and global training update at the cloud. Next, we employ FedFog in wireless fog-cloud systems by investigating a novel network-aware FL optimization problem that strikes the balance between the global loss and completion time. An iterative algorithm is then developed to obtain a precise measurement of the system performance, which helps design an efficient stopping criteria to output an appropriate number of global rounds. To mitigate the straggler effect, we propose a flexible user aggregation strategy that trains fast users first to obtain a certain level of accuracy before allowing slow users to join the global training updates. Extensive numerical results using several real-world FL tasks are provided to verify the theoretical convergence of FedFog. We also show that the proposed co-design of FL and communication is essential to substantially improve resource utilization while achieving comparable accuracy of the learning model. [less ▲]

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See detailResource Optimization for Integrated Terrestrial Non-Terrestrial Networks Involving IRS
Khan, Wali Ullah UL; Mahmood, Asad UL; Lagunas, Eva UL et al

E-print/Working paper (2023)

Intelligent reconfigurable surfaces (RIS) have emerged as one of the most promising and cost-effective technologies due to their high energy efficiency, extended wireless coverage, enhanced signal ... [more ▼]

Intelligent reconfigurable surfaces (RIS) have emerged as one of the most promising and cost-effective technologies due to their high energy efficiency, extended wireless coverage, enhanced signal strength, and interference mitigation capability. This paper provides a new framework of cognitive radio-based integrated terrestrial non-terrestrial networks (ITNTNs) involving IRS. The objective is to maximize the achievable sum rate of the secondary network by simultaneously optimizing the transmission power, user association, phase shift design of IRS and 2D placement of UAVs while controlling the co-channel interference temperature to the primary network. The problem is formulated as non-convex/non-linear due to interference and decision variables which makes it NP-hard and intractable. To reduce the complexity and make the problem tractable, we first decouple it into subproblems and iteratively obtain an efficient solution. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed optimization scheme converges within a few iterations and achieves high sum rate than the benchmark suboptimal schemes. [less ▲]

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See detailRIS-Assisted Energy-Efficient LEO Satellite Communications with NOMA
Khan, Wali Ullah UL; Lagunas, Eva UL; Mahmood, Asad UL et al

E-print/Working paper (2023)

This paper proposes an energy-efficient RIS-assisted downlink NOMA communication for LEO satellite networks. The proposed framework simultaneously optimizes the transmit power of ground terminals of the ... [more ▼]

This paper proposes an energy-efficient RIS-assisted downlink NOMA communication for LEO satellite networks. The proposed framework simultaneously optimizes the transmit power of ground terminals of the LEO satellite and the passive beamforming of RIS while ensuring the quality of services. Due to the nature of the considered system and optimization variables, the energy efficiency maximization problem is non-convex. In practice, obtaining the optimal solution for such problems is very challenging. Therefore, we adopt alternating optimization methods to handle the joint optimization in two steps. In step 1, for any given phase shift vector, we calculate satellite transmit power towards each ground terminal using the Lagrangian dual method. Then, in step 2, given the transmit power, we design passive beamforming for RIS by solving the semi-definite programming. We also compare our solution with a benchmark framework having a fixed phase shift design and a conventional NOMA framework without involving RIS. Numerical results show that the proposed optimization framework achieves 21.47% and 54.9% higher energy efficiency compared to the benchmark and conventional frameworks. [less ▲]

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See detailEfficient Content Caching for Delivery Time Minimization in the LEO Satellite Networks
Bhandari, Sovit UL; Vu, Thang Xuan UL; Chatzinotas, Symeon UL et al

Scientific Conference (2023, June 01)

Next-generation multi-spot beam satellite systems open a new way to design low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication systems with full flexibility in managing bandwidth, transmit power, and spot beam ... [more ▼]

Next-generation multi-spot beam satellite systems open a new way to design low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication systems with full flexibility in managing bandwidth, transmit power, and spot beam coverage, enabling the adoption of spatial multiplexing techniques to meet the unprecedented demand for future mobile traffic. However, conventional spatial multiplexing techniques perform poorly in satellite systems due to high correlation between the satellite channels, resulting in inefficient mitigation of inter-user interference. In this paper, we exploit the flexibility of multi-spot beam LEO satellites and consider the geographic distribution of users to improve the performance of LEO satellite-assisted edge caching systems. Our goal is to jointly optimize the beam coverage, bandwidth and transmit power and minimize the cache delivery time. In particular, the spot beam coverage is optimized by using the K-means algorithm applied to the realistic user demands, followed by a proposed successive convex approximation (SCA)-based iterative algorithm for optimizing the radio resources. Simulations shows that our optimal approach outperforms the conventional precoding-based approach and also shows a significant improvement in the minimization of the maximum content delivery time. [less ▲]

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See detailEnergy-Efficient Service-Aware Multi-Connectivity Scheduler for Uplink Multi-Layer Non-Terrestrial Networks
Dazhi, Michael UL; Al-Hraishawi, Hayder UL; Mysore Rama Rao, Bhavani Shankar UL et al

in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (2023)

This paper introduces the concept of energy efficiency (EE) in the uplink with the capability of multi-connectivity (MC) in a multi-orbit non-terrestrial network (NTN), where user terminals (UTs) can be ... [more ▼]

This paper introduces the concept of energy efficiency (EE) in the uplink with the capability of multi-connectivity (MC) in a multi-orbit non-terrestrial network (NTN), where user terminals (UTs) can be simultaneously served by more than one satellite to achieve higher peak throughput at reduced energy consumption. This concept also considers the service classification of the users, so that network dimensioning is performed in order to satisfy the quality of service (QoS) requirement of users. MC can increase throughput, but this entails increased power consumption at user terminal for uplink transmissions. To this end, an energy-efficient service-aware multi-connectivity (EE-SAMC) scheduling algorithm is developed in this paper to improve the EE of uplink communications. EE-SAMC uses available radio resources and propagation information to intelligently define a dynamic resource allocation pattern, that optimally routes traffic so as to reduce the energy consumption at the UT while ensuring QoS is maximized. EE-SAMC is designed based on the formulation of a non-convex combinatorial problem, it is solved in two ways involving firstly an optimization solution and secondly a heuristic approach. The effectiveness of EE-SAMC is compared with random allocation, round robin and heuristic schedulers in terms of EE, throughput and delay; EE-SAMC outperforms all schedulers. [less ▲]

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See detailIntegration of NOMA with Reflecting Intelligent Surfaces: A Multi-cell Optimization with SIC Decoding Errors
Khan, Wali Ullah UL; Lagunas, Eva UL; Mahmood, Asad UL et al

in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (2023)

Reflecting intelligent surfaces (RIS) has gained significant attention due to its high energy and spectral efficiency in next-generation wireless networks. By using low-cost passive reflecting elements ... [more ▼]

Reflecting intelligent surfaces (RIS) has gained significant attention due to its high energy and spectral efficiency in next-generation wireless networks. By using low-cost passive reflecting elements, RIS can smartly reconfigure the signal propagation to extend the wireless communication coverage. On the other hand, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been proven as a key air interface technique for supporting massive connections over limited resources. Utilizing the superposition coding and successive interference cancellation (SIC) techniques, NOMA can multiplex multiple users over the same spectrum and time resources by allocating different power levels. This paper proposes a new optimization scheme in a multi-cell RIS-NOMA network to enhance the spectral efficiency under SIC decoding errors. In particular, the power budget of the base station and the transmit power of NOMA users while the passive beamforming of RIS is simultaneously optimized in each cell. Due to objective function and quality of service constraints, the joint problem is formulated as non-convex, which is very complex and challenging to obtain the optimal global solution. To reduce the complexity and make the problem tractable, we first decouple the original problem into two sub-problems for power allocation and passive beamforming. Then, the efficient solution of each sub-problem is obtained in two-steps. In the first-step of For power allocation sub-problem, we transform it to a convex problem by inner approximation method and then solve it through a standard convex optimization solver in the second-step. Accordingly, in the first-step of passive beamforming, it is transformed to a standard semidefinite programming problem by successive convex approximation and different of convex programming methods. Then, penalty based method is used to achieve a Rank-1 solution for passive beamforming in second-step. Numerical results demonstrate the benefits of the proposed optimization scheme in the multi-cell RIS-NOMA network. [less ▲]

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See detailEnergy-Efficient RIS-Enabled NOMA Communication for 6G LEO Satellite Networks
Khan, Wali Ullah UL; Lagunas, Eva UL; Mahmood, Asad UL et al

E-print/Working paper (2023)

Reconfigurable Intelligent surfaces (RIS) have the potential to significantly improve the performance of future 6G LEO satellite networks. In particular, RIS can improve the signal quality of ground ... [more ▼]

Reconfigurable Intelligent surfaces (RIS) have the potential to significantly improve the performance of future 6G LEO satellite networks. In particular, RIS can improve the signal quality of ground terminal, reduce power consumption of satellite and increase spectral efficiency of overall network. This paper proposes an energy-efficient RIS-enabled NOMA communication for LEO satellite networks. The proposed framework simultaneously optimizes the transmit power of ground terminals at LEO satellite and passive beamforming at RIS while ensuring the quality of services. Due to the nature of the considered system and optimization variables, the problem of energy efficiency maximization is formulated as non-convex. In practice, it is very challenging to obtain the optimal solution for such problems. Therefore, we adopt alternating optimization methods to handle the joint optimization in two steps. In step 1, for any given phase shift vector, we calculate efficient power for ground terminals at satellite using Lagrangian dual method. Then, in step 2, given the transmit power, we design passive beamforming for RIS by solving the semi-definite programming. To validate the proposed solution, numerical results are also provided to demonstrate the benefits of the proposed optimization framework. [less ▲]

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See detailBeam Splash Mitigation for NGSO Spectrum Coexistence between Feeder and User Downlink
Lagunas, Eva UL; Perez-Neira, Ana; Grotz, Joel et al

in International ITG 26th Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA), Braunschweig, Germany, 27 Feb - 03 Mar 2023. (2023)

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See detailDemand-Aware Onboard Payload Processor Management for High Throughput NGSO Satellite Systems
Abdu, Tedros Salih; Kisseleff, Steven UL; Lagunas, Eva UL et al

in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (2023)

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See detailStacked-Cascode Current Steering Architecture for Gallium Nitride Variable-Gain LNAs
Gonzalez Rios, Jorge Luis UL; Vazquez, Diego; Moreno, Robson et al

in IEEE 14th Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems (LASCAS 2023) (2023)

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See detailOpportunities for physical layer security in UAV communication enhanced with intelligent reflective surfaces
Khan, Wali Ullah UL; Lagunas, Eva UL; Ali, Zain et al

in IEEE Wireless Communications (2022), 29(06), 22-28

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are an important component of next-generation wireless networks that can assist in high data rate communications and provide enhanced coverage.Their high mobility and ... [more ▼]

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are an important component of next-generation wireless networks that can assist in high data rate communications and provide enhanced coverage.Their high mobility and aerial nature offer deployment flexibility and low-cost infrastructure support to existing cellular networks and provide many applications that rely on mobile wireless communications. However, security is a major challenge in UAV communications, and physical layer security (PLS) is an important technique to improve the reliability and security of data shared with the assistance of UAVs. Recently, the intelligent reflective surface (IRS) has emerged as a novel technology to extend and/or enhance wireless coverage by reconfiguring the propagation environment of communications. This article provides an overview of how the IRS can improve the PLS of UAV networks. We discuss different use cases of PLS for IRS-enhanced UAV communications and briefly review the recent advances in this area. Then, based on the recent advances, we also present a case study that utilizes alternate optimization to maximize the secrecy capacity for an IRS-enhanced UAV scenario in the presence of multiple Eves. Finally, we highlight several open issues and research challenges to realize PLS in IRS-enhanced UAV communications. [less ▲]

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See detailLearning-Based Joint Channel Prediction and Antenna Selection for Massive MIMO with Partial CSI
He, Ke UL; Vu, Thang Xuan UL; Chatzinotas, Symeon UL et al

in IEEE GLOBECOM 2022 proceedings (2022, December)

This paper investigates the massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system in practical deployment scenarios, in which, to balance the economic and energy efficiency with the system performance, the ... [more ▼]

This paper investigates the massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system in practical deployment scenarios, in which, to balance the economic and energy efficiency with the system performance, the number of radio frequency (RF) chains is smaller than the number of antennas. The base station employs antenna selection (AS) to fully harness the spatial multiplexing gain. Conventional AS techniques require full channel state information (CSI), which is time-consuming as the antennas cannot be simultaneously connected to the RF chains during the channel estimation process. To tackle this issue, we propose a novel joint channel prediction and AS (JCPAS) framework to reduce the CSI acquisition time and improve the system performance under temporally correlated channels. Our proposed JCPAS framework is a fully probabilistic model driven by deep unsupervised learning. The proposed framework is able to predict the current full CSI, while requiring only a historical window of partial observations. Extensive simulation results show that the proposed JCPAS can significantly improve the system performance under temporally correlated channels, especially for very large-scale systems with highly correlated channels. [less ▲]

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See detailOptimizing Computational and Communication Resources for MEC Network Empowered UAV-RIS Communication
Mahmood, Asad UL; Xuan VU, Thang; Khan, Wali Ullah UL et al

Scientific Conference (2022, December)

With the technological evolution and new applications, user equipment (UEs) has become a vital part of our lives. However, limited computational capabilities and finite battery life bottleneck the ... [more ▼]

With the technological evolution and new applications, user equipment (UEs) has become a vital part of our lives. However, limited computational capabilities and finite battery life bottleneck the performance of computationally demanding applications. A practical solution to enhance the quality of experience (QoE) is to offload the extensive computation to the mobile edge cloud (MEC). Moreover, the network’s performance can be further improved by deploying an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) integrated with intelligent reflective surfaces (IRS): an effective alternative to massive antenna systems to enhance the signal quality and suppress interference. In this work, the MEC network architecture is assisted by UAV-IRS to provide computational services to the UEs. To do so, a cost minimization problem in terms of computing time and hovering energy consumption is formulated. Furthermore, to achieve an efficient solution to a formulated challenging problem, the original optimization problem is decoupled into sub-problems using the block-coordinate decent method. Moreover, numerical results are compared to baseline schemes to determine the effectiveness of the proposed scheme. Simulation results demonstrate that the optimal allocation of local computational resources results in minimizing tasks’ computational time and hovering energy consumption. [less ▲]

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See detailPower Allocation for Space-Terrestrial Cooperation Systems with Statistical CSI
Chien, Trinh-Van; Lagunas, Eva UL; Hoang, Tiep M. et al

in IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE Globecom), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dec. 2022 (2022, December)

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See detailSpace-Terrestrial Cooperation Over Spatially Correlated Channels Relying on Imperfect Channel Estimates: Uplink Performance Analysis and Optimization
Chien, Trinh Van; Lagunas, Eva UL; Hoang, Tiep M. et al

in IEEE Transactions on Communications (2022)

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See detailMultiuser-MISO Precoding under Channel Phase Uncertainty in Satellite Communication Systems
Martinez Marrero, Liz UL; Haqiqatnejad, Alireza UL; Merlano Duncan, Juan Carlos UL et al

in IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology (2022)

Linear and symbol-level precoding in satellite communications have received increasing research attention thanks to their ability to tackle inter-beam interference, allowing the use of spectral resources ... [more ▼]

Linear and symbol-level precoding in satellite communications have received increasing research attention thanks to their ability to tackle inter-beam interference, allowing the use of spectral resources more efficiently. However, there are still challenges and open questions regarding the implementation of practical precoding systems taking the phase uncertainties in estimating the channel state information into account. This work assesses the impact of phase variations and uncertainties inherent to the satellite communication system operating a precoded forward link. Specifically, we address the inability to measure at the user terminal, the absolute phase rotation introduced by the channel, and the transponder local oscillator phase noise effects on the precoding operations considering the use of frequency division multiplexing in the forward-uplink transmission. We formally demonstrate that the system performance for linear and non-linear precoding operations is not affected by the uncertainty in the phase measurements at the user terminal. Additionally, we show that using a single frequency reference for all the local oscillators at the transponder does not avoid the phase variations related to the frequency division multiplexing in the forward-uplink. This work demonstrates that these phase variations would not affect the system performance for an ideal zero-delay precoding loop. However, this is not feasible in practical scenarios, where the phase noise of the frequency reference at the transponder and the loop delay determine the impact on the system performance. We validate our results by simulations considering three frequency references with different stability levels in a typical GEO satellite system. Our results suggest that practical implementations of multiuser-MISO precoding systems must include a differential phase synchronization loop to compensate for this performance degradation. [less ▲]

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See detailIntegration of backscatter communication with multi-cell NOMA: a spectral efficiency optimization under imperfect SIC
Khan, Wali Ullah UL; Lagunas, Eva UL; Mahmood, Asad UL et al

Poster (2022, November 03)

Future wireless networks are expected to connect large-scale low-powered communication devices using the available spectrum resources. Backscatter communications (BC) is an emerging technology towards ... [more ▼]

Future wireless networks are expected to connect large-scale low-powered communication devices using the available spectrum resources. Backscatter communications (BC) is an emerging technology towards battery-free transmission in future wireless networks by leveraging ambient radio frequency (RF) waves that enable communications among wireless devices. Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has recently drawn significant attention due to its high spectral efficiency. The combination of these two technologies can play an important role in the development of future networks. This paper proposes a new optimization approach to enhance the spectral efficiency of nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-BC network. Our framework simultaneously optimizes the power allocation of base station and reflection coefficient (RC) of the backscatter device in each cell under the assumption of imperfect signal decoding. The problem of spectral efficiency maximization is coupled on power and RC which is challenging to solve. To make this problem tractable, we first decouple it into two subproblems and then apply the decomposition method and Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions to obtain the efficient solution. Numerical results show the performance of the proposed NOMA-BC network over the pure NOMA network without BC. [less ▲]

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See detailOn the Performance of Cache-Free/Cache-Aided STBC-NOMA in Cognitive Hybrid Satellite-Terrestrial Networks
Singh, Vibhum UL; Solanki, Sourabh UL; Eappen, Geoffrey UL et al

in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (2022), 11(12), 2655-2659

Future wireless networks pose several challenges such as high spectral efficiency, wide coverage massive connectivity, low receiver complexity, etc. To this end, this letter investigates an overlay based ... [more ▼]

Future wireless networks pose several challenges such as high spectral efficiency, wide coverage massive connectivity, low receiver complexity, etc. To this end, this letter investigates an overlay based cognitive hybrid satellite-terrestrial network (CHSTN) combining non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and conventional Alamouti space-time block coding (STBC) techniques. Herein, a decode-and-forward based secondary terrestrial network cooperates with a primary satellite network for dynamic spectrum access. Further, for reliable content delivery and low latency requirements, wireless caching is employed, whereby the secondary network can store the most popular contents of the primary network. Considering the relevant heterogeneous fading channel models and the NOMA-based imperfect successive interference cancellation, we examine the performance of CHSTN for the cache-free (CF) STBC-NOMA and the cache-aided (CA) STBC-NOMA schemes. We assess the outage probability expressions for primary and secondary networks and further, highlight the corresponding achievable diversity orders. Indicatively, the proposed CF/CA STBC-NOMA schemes for CHSTN perform significantly better than the benchmark standalone NOMA and OMA schemes. [less ▲]

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