Ratheesh Mungara

• PhD
• PostDoc Position at Technische Universität Berlin

The coded caching scheme proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen (MAN) critically hinges on the ability of the system to deliver a common coded multicast message from a server to all users in the system at a fixed rate, independent of the number of users. In order to apply this paradigm to a spatially distributed wireless network, it is important to make...

Although in cellular networks full duplex and dynamic time-division duplexing promise increased spectrum efficiency, their potential is so far challenged by increased interference. While previous studies have shown that self-interference can be suppressed to a sufficient level, we show that the cross-link interference for both duplexing modes, espe...

Although in cellular networks full-duplex and dynamic time-division duplexing promise increased spectrum efficiency, their potential is so far challenged by increased interference. While previous studies have shown that self-interference can be suppressed to a sufficient level, we show that the cross-link interference for both duplexing modes, espe...

The coded caching scheme proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen (MAN) critically hinges on the ability of the system to deliver a common coded multicast message from a server to all users in the system at a fixed rate, independent of the number of users. In order to apply this paradigm to a spatially distributed wireless network, it is important to make...

The decoupling of data and control planes, as proposed for 5G networks, will enable the efficient implementation of multitier networks where user equipment (UE) nodes obtain coverage and connectivity through the top-tier macro-cells, and, at the same time, achieve high-throughput low-latency communication through lower tiers in the hierarchy. This...

The decoupling of data and control planes, as proposed for 5G networks, will enable the efficient implementation of multitier networks where user equipment (UE) nodes obtain coverage and connectivity through the top-tier macro-cells, and, at the same time, achieve high-throughput low-latency communication through lower tiers in the hierarchy. This...

The coded caching scheme proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen considers the delivery of files in a given content library to users through a deterministic error-free network where a common multicast message is sent to all users at a fixed rate, independent of the number of users. In order to apply this paradigm to a wireless network, it is important to...

This paper shows how the application of stochastic geometry to the analysis of wireless networks is greatly facilitated by (i) a clear separation of time scales, (ii) abstraction of small-scale effects via ergodicity, and (iii) an interference model that reflects the receiver's lack of knowledge of how each individual interference term is faded. Th...

This paper characterizes, through a stochastic geometry analysis, the increase in spectral efficiency that full-duplex transmission brings about in wireless networks. While, on isolated links, full-duplex promises a doubling of the spectral efficiency, in the context of a network this is weighted down by the corresponding rise in interference, and...

This paper shows how the application of stochastic geometry to the analysis of wireless networks is greatly facilitated by (i) a clear separation of time scales, (ii) the abstraction of small-scale effects via ergodicity, and (iii) an interference model that reflects the receiver's lack of knowledge of how each individual interference term is faded...

Device-to-device (D2D) communication allows serving local wireless traffic bypassing the system's infrastructure. One way to control the interference in D2D networks is to carefully channelize transmissions. This paper presents an analytical characterization of ITLinQ, one of the principal D2D channelization schemes proposed to date. Recognizing th...

This paper presents an analytical framework that enables characterizing analytically the spectral efficiency achievable by D2D (device-to-device) communication links integrated within a cellular network. This framework is based on a stochastic geometry formulation with a novel approach to the modeling and spatial averaging of interference, which fa...

This paper addresses the benefits of introducing exclusion regions around both transmitters and receivers in D2D wireless networks. Such exclusion regions offer protection from interference at the expense of a sparser spatial reuse of spectrum, bringing about a tradeoff whose resolution entails optimizing the size of the exclusion regions as functi...

Capitalizing on the analytical potency of stochastic geometry and on some new ideas to model intercell interference, this paper presents analytical expressions that enable quantifying the spectral efficiency of interference alignment (IA) in cellular networks without the need for simulation. From these expressions, the benefits of IA are characteri...

We present an analytical characterization of the spectral efficiency achievable by D2D communication links overlaid on a cellular network. The analysis relies on a stochastic geometry formulation with a novel approach to the modeling and spatial averaging of interference, which facilitates obtaining compact expressions. These expressions are then a...

This paper presents analytical expressions that enable quantifying the spectral efficiency of antenna-domain IA (interference alignment) in cellular networks. From these expressions, the benefits of such IA are characterized. Under rather favorable assumptions, IA is found to be beneficial only in very specific and relatively infrequent network sit...

Device-to-device (D2D) communication allows serving local wireless traffic bypassing the system's infrastructure. The interference in D2D can be controlled by carefully allocating users to orthogonal channels. This paper analytically characterizes the spectral efficiency of the ITLinQ channelization technique [1]. The analysis relies on a stochasti...

The spectral efficiency achievable by interference alignment (IA) in a $K$-user multiple-input–multiple-output interference channel is studied in the face of time-selective continuous fading explicitly estimated through pilot-symbol observations. The robustness of IA in such operationally relevant conditions is assessed through a joint optimization...

The spectral efficiency achievable by IA (interference alignment) in a K-user interference channel is studied in the face of time-selective fading explicitly estimated through pilot-symbol observations. The robustness of IA is assessed through a joint optimization of the pilot overhead and the IA update interval, which are characterized-in the high...

Distributed cooperation schemes such as Interference Alignment hold the promise of an increased number of spatial degrees of freedom and, with that, of substantially higher spectral efficiencies. Most results available to date, however, have been obtained in simplified settings featuring a small number of transmitters and receivers in isolation. Wh...

We provide lower and upper bounds on the degree of freedom of B multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) interfering broadcast channels where each base station equipped with M antennas supports its corresponding K users each equipped with M antennas. It is observed that both bounds coincide using interference alignment with symbol extension when B > m...