This paper considers the transmission of confidential messages over noisy wireless ad hoc networks, where both background noise and interference from concurrent transmitters affect the received signals. For the random networks where the legitimate nodes and the eavesdroppers are distributed as Poisson point processes, we study the secrecy transmission capacity (STC), as well as the connection o...

This paper presents an analysis of the 19.5 GHz clear-air signal level measurement variations over a line of sight link set up between two campuses of University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. The measurement over the link spans a period of eleven months. An analytical expression for fade depth exceedance is proposed for KwaZulu-Natal, in South Africa. The link outage probability is ...

General Packet radio service (GPRS) is designed for transmitting packet data and supposed to take its radio resource from the pool of unused channels by GSM voice services. Obviously, the introduction of GPRS has impact on the voice services. In this paper, we present a method to calculate the outage probability of the GSM-GPRS network for both the non-frequency hopping and the frequency hoppi...

We consider multi-input multi-output (MIMO) Rayleigh block fading channels and examine the V-BLAST architecture proposed for point-to-point communications over such channels. The results obtained are also applicable to the MIMO multiaccess channel. We derive the outage probabilities or upper bounds to outage probabilities, obtained with the optimum decoder and various successive decoders, namel...

In this paper, a cooperative transmission protocol for cognitive radio systems is proposed. In this protocol, the primary system comprises a transmitter (PT), a receiver (PR), and a decode-and-forward relay (Relay), while the secondary system comprises a transmitter (ST) and a receiver (SR). Both the ST and the Relay assist the transmissions of the primary users together. The outage probabiliti...

Reliable detection of other radio systems is crucial for systems that share the same frequency band. In wireless communication channels, there is uncertainty in the received signal level due to multipath fading and shadowing. Cooperative sensing techniques in which radio stations share their sensing information can improve the detection probability of other systems. In this paper, a new coopera...

In this paper, we study the beam-based training design jointly with the transmission design for the hybrid massive antenna single-user (SU) and multiple-user (MU) systems where outage probability is adopted as the performance measure. For SU systems, an interleaved training design is proposed where the feedback is concatenated with the training procedure to monitor the training status and to ha...

Most related works addressing cognitive relaying networks focus on the impact of the interference constraint imposed by the primary receivers on the performance of the secondary network, while neglecting the interference coming from the primary transmitters. In this paper, we assess the outage performance of a cognitive relaying network composed by a source communicating with a destination unde...

In this article, we propose a novel method to derive exact closed-form ergodic capacity and outage probability expressions for correlated Rayleigh fading channels with receive diversity. Unlike the existing works, the proposed method employ a simple approach for the capacity and outage analysis for receiver diversity channels operating at different signal-to-noise ratios depicted in the diagona...

In this paper, we address the data link layer quality of service (QoS) issue by investigating the outage probabilities for multi-connection multiclass services in the uplink of a wideband CDMA cellular mobile network. Four Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) QoS classes are served within each mobile user simultaneously. Each class has different QoS constraints. Assuming perfect po...