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Cellular Fronthauling for Data Capacity Increase in Underserved Spaces

The increase in wireless data traffic continues and is a product of several factors. First, new technologies and capabilities enable new use cases for which new products emerge. Then, with the growing user adoption over time, the data traffic is further in ...

EPFL2022

Adding Indoor Capacity without Fiber Backhaul: An mmWave Bridge Prototype

Andreas Peter Burg, Ruben Merz, Adrian Schumacher

Today, a large portion of mobile data traffic is consumed behind the shielding walls of buildings or in the Faraday cage of trains. This renders cellular network coverage from outdoor cell sites difficult. Indoor small cells and distributed antennas along ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Optimal Number of Paths with Multipath Routing in Hybrid Networks

Patrick Thiran, Sébastien Christophe Henri

In recent years, multipath routing, i.e., employing several paths simultaneously, has emerged as an efficient way to provide significant throughput gains in local networks. This has been observed both with technologies that are not subject to interference, ...

2018

Optimal Number of Paths with Multipath Routing in Hybrid Networks

Patrick Thiran, Sébastien Christophe Henri

IEEE2018

Wireless Network Simplification: The Gaussian N-Relay Diamond Network

Christina Fragouli

We consider the Gaussian N-relay diamond network, where a source wants to communicate to destination node through a layer of N-relay nodes. We investigate the following question: what fraction of the capacity can we maintain using only k out of the N avail ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Wireless Multi-hop Networks Beyond Capacity

Patrick Thiran, Adel Aziz

Wireless multi-hop local area networks use in general scheduling schemes that assume the network capacity to be known. Indeed in most of the throughput-optimal algorithms the sources are assumed to send at a rate within the capacity region. However, measur ...

IEEE2013

Broadcasting and Multicasting Nested Message Sets

Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

Finding theoretical limits on the performance of communication systems and designing schemes to achieve them is one of the fundamental questions in information theory. While the theory of point-to-point communication is well-investigated, most problems hav ...

EPFL2012

Bringing Stability to Wireless Mesh Networks

Adel Aziz

Wireless mesh networks were designed as a mean to rapidly deliver large-scale communication capabilities without the support of any prior infrastructure. Among the different properties of mesh networks, the self-organizing feature is particularly interesti ...

EPFL2011

Demo Abstract of Net-Controller: a Network Visualization and Management Tool

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen, Adel Aziz

Net-Controller is a user-friendly network visualization and management tool developed at EPFL in order to easily retrieve and display in real time network statistics, such as link throughput and queue occupancy from a large testbed composed of wireless rou ...

2010

Cross-Layer Based Analysis of Multi-Hop Wireless Networks

Tarik Tabet

In this work, we revisit classical packet radio networks with a modern treatment of physical-layer (PHY) procedures, medium-access (MAC) and geographic channel-driven routing protocols. Our network model assumes that nodes are randomly distributed on the p ...

2010

Fundamental limits and optimal operation in large wireless networks

Ayfer Özgür Aydin

Wireless adhoc networks consist of users that want to communicate with each other over a shared wireless medium. The users have transmitting and receiving capabilities but there is no additional infrastructure for assisting communication. This is in contra ...

EPFL2009

Effect of 802.11 Adaptive Exponential Backoffs on the Fluidity of Downlink Flows in Mesh Networks

Patrick Thiran, Adel Aziz

Efficient multihop traffic management is a need for successful Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) deployment. Using an analogy with fluid mechanism, we classify a flow as laminar if the packets flow smoothly from the Wired Access Point (WAP) over the mesh netwo ...

WinMee2008

Border effects, fairness, and phase transition in large wireless networks

Patrick Thiran, Olivier Dousse, Mathilde Durvy

We characterize the fairness of decentralized medium access control protocols based on CSMA/CA, such as IEEE 802.11, in large multi-hop wireless networks. In particular, we show that the widely observed unfairness of the protocol in small network topologie ...

IEEE Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2008

On Wireless Social Community Networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Mark Felegyhazi, Julien Freudiger, Peter Marbach

Wireless social community networks are emerging as a new alternative to provide wireless data access in urban areas. By relying on users in the network deployment, a wireless community can rapidly deploy a high-quality data access infrastructure in an inex ...

2008

Modelling the IEEE 802.11 protocol in wireless multi-hop networks

Mathilde Durvy

IEEE 802.11 is probably the most widely used, medium access control protocol in current wireless networks. In the Wireless LAN (i.e., single-hop) setting, its performance is by now quite well understood. However, in the multi-hop setting where relay nodes ...

EPFL2007

A frame-start detector for a 4x4 MIMO-OFDM system

Andreas Peter Burg

Future wireless LANs will increase the peak data rate by employing multiple antennas at both transmitter and receiver. ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2006

Modeling and performance analysis of IP access interface in optical transmission networks with packet switching

Christian Gaumier

The article analyzes the influence of the Internet Protocol (IP) access interface on the packet loss probability and delay times in the optical packet switched network. The network and node model have been proposed, and the structure of the IP access inter ...

2006

A Packing Approach to Compare Slotted and Non-Slotted Medium Access Control

Patrick Thiran, Mathilde Durvy

In multi-hop ad hoc networks, the efficiency of a medium access control protocol under heavy traffic load depends mainly on its ability to schedule a large number of simultaneous non-interfering transmissions. However, as each node has only a local view of ...

2006

Asymptotic properties of wireless multi-hop networks

Olivier Dousse

In this dissertation, we consider wireless multi-hop networks, where the nodes are randomly placed. We are particularly interested in their asymptotic properties when the number of nodes tends to infinity. We use percolation theory as our main tool of anal ...

EPFL2005