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This paper considers a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) where spatially distributed remote radio heads (RRHs) communicate with a full-duplex user. In order to reflect a realistic scenario, the uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) RRHs are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Mohammadali Mohammadi , Himal A. Suraweera , Chintha Tellambura

The important problem of weighted sum rate maximization (WSRM) in a multicellular environment is intrinsically sensitive to channel estimation errors. In this paper, we study ways to maximize the weighted sum rate in a linearly precoded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-21 Muhammad Fainan Hanif , Le-Nam Tran , Antti Tölli , Markku Juntti , Savo Glisic

As a promising paradigm to reduce both capital and operating expenditures, the cloud radio access network (C-RAN) has been shown to provide high spectral efficiency and energy efficiency. Motivated by its significant theoretical performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Mugen Peng , Yaohua Sun , Xuelong Li , Zhendong Mao , Chonggang Wang

This paper optimizes the fronthaul bit allocation in massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems operating with limited-capacity fronthaul links. We consider an advanced antenna system (AAS) controlled by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Emil Bjornson , Joakim Jalden

Fronthaul limitations in terms of capacity and latency motivate the growing interest in the wireless industry for the study of alternative functional splits between cloud and edge nodes in Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN). This work…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Jinkyu Kang , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang , Shlomo Shamai

Over the last few years, Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) has arisen as a transformative architecture for 5G cellular networks that brings the flexibility and agility of cloud computing to wireless communications. At the same time,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Tuyen X. Tran , Abolfazl Hajisami , Dario Pompili

We consider the coordinated downlink beamforming problem in a cellular network with the base stations (BSs) equipped with multiple antennas, and with each user equipped with a single antenna. The BSs cooperate in sharing their local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-29 Mingyi Hong , Alfredo Garcia , J. Joaquin Escudero Garzas , Ana Garcia-Armada

In this paper, a cloud radio access network (Cloud-RAN) based collaborative edge AI inference architecture is proposed. Specifically, geographically distributed devices capture real-time noise-corrupted sensory data samples and extract the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Pengfei Zhang , Dingzhu Wen , Guangxu Zhu , Qimei Chen , Kaifeng Han , Yuanming Shi

Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) has emerged as a potential candidate of the next generation access network technology to address the increasing mobile traffic, while mobile cloud computing (MCC) offers a prospective solution to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang , Chathura Sarathchandra Magurawalage

Aerial-ground interference is the main obstacle to achieving high spectral efficiency in cellular networks with both traditional terrestrial users and new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) users. Due to their strong line-of-sight (LoS) channels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

We characterize the uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) rates of a full-duplex cloud radio access network (C-RAN) with all participate and single best remote radio head (RRH) association schemes. Specifically, multi-antenna equipped RRHs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Mohammadali Mohammadi , Himal A. Suraweera , Chintha Tellambura

One of the first widespread uses of multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) is in 5G networks, where each base station has an advanced antenna system (AAS) that is connected to the baseband unit (BBU) with a capacity-constrained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Emil Björnson , Joakim Jaldén

The ultra-dense cloud radio access network (UD-CRAN), in which remote radio heads (RRHs) are densely deployed in the network, is considered. To reduce the channel estimation overhead, we focus on the design of robust transmit beamforming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-12 Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Lajos Hanzo

Migrating computational intensive tasks from mobile devices to more resourceful cloud servers is a promising technique to increase the computational capacity of mobile devices while saving their battery energy. In this paper, we consider a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Stefania Sardellitti , Gesualdo Scutari , Sergio Barbarossa

Fog radio access networks (F-RANs), which consist of a cloud and multiple edge nodes (ENs) connected via fronthaul links, have been regarded as promising network architectures. The F-RAN entails a joint optimization of cloud and edge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Hoon Lee , Junbeom Kim , Seok-Hwan Park

The massive scale of future wireless networks will create computational bottlenecks in performance optimization. In this paper, we study the problem of connecting mobile traffic to Cloud RAN (C-RAN) stations. To balance station load, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Georgios Paschos , Nikolaos Liakopoulos , Merouane Debbah , Tong Wen

Mobile cloud and edge computing protocols make it possible to offer computationally heavy applications to mobile devices via computational offloading from devices to nearby edge servers or more powerful, but remote, cloud servers. Previous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-31 Seok-Hwan Park , Seongah Jeong , Jinyeop Na , Osvaldo Simeone , Shlomo Shamai

The problem of maximizing weighted sum rates in the downlink of a multicell environment is of considerable interest. Unfortunately, this problem is known to be NP-hard. For the case of multi-antenna base stations and single antenna mobile…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-12 Le-Nam Tran , Muhammad Fainan Hanif , Antti Tölli , Markku Juntti

Base station cooperation improves the sum-rates that can be achieved in cellular systems. Conventional cooperation techniques require sharing large amounts of information over finite-capacity backhaul links and assume that base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-12-08 Ramya Bhagavatula , Robert W. Heath

We consider computation offloading for Internet-of-things (IoT) applications in multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) cloud-radio-access-network (C-RAN). Due to the limited battery life and computational capability in the IoT devices…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Chandan Pradhan , Ang Li , Changyang She , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic