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Cloud-Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is characterized by a hierarchical structure in which the baseband processing functionalities of remote radio heads (RRHs) are implemented by means of cloud computing at a Central Unit (CU). A key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Zoran Utkovski , Osvaldo Simeone , Tamara Dimitrova , Petar Popovski

The cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is a promising network architecture for future mobile communications, and one practical hurdle for its large scale implementation is the stringent requirement of high capacity and low latency fronthaul…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Xiongbin Rao , Vincent K. N. Lau

Recently, Cloud-based Radio Access Network (C-RAN) has been proposed as a potential solution to reduce energy cost in cellular networks. C-RAN centralizes the baseband processing capabilities of Base Stations (BSs) in a cloud computing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Qiang Fan , Hancheng Lu , Wei Jiang , Peilin Hong , Jun Wu , Chang Wen Chen

The emergence of Centralized-RAN (C-RAN) has revolutionized mobile network infrastructure, offering streamlined cell-site engineering and enhanced network management capabilities. As C-RAN gains momentum, the focus shifts to optimizing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Marcello Morini , Eugenio Moro , Ilario Filippini , Danilo De Donno , Antonio Capone

This paper considers a downlink transmission of cloud radio access network (C-RAN) in which precoded baseband signals at a common baseband unit are compressed before being forwarded to radio units (RUs) through limited fronthaul capacity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Kien-Giang Nguyen , Quang-Doanh Vu , Markku Juntti , Le-Nam Tran

Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) refers to the virtualization of base station functionalities by means of cloud computing. This results in a novel cellular architecture in which low-cost wireless access points, known as radio units (RUs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-25 Osvaldo Simeone , Andreas Maeder , Mugen Peng , Onur Sahin , Wei Yu

This paper considers the uplink of a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) comprised of several multi-antenna remote radio units (RUs) which send the data that they received from multiple mobile users (MUs) to a central unit (CU) via a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Marzieh Najafi , Vahid Jamali , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

In cloud radio access networks (C-RANs), the baseband units and radio units of base stations are separated, which requires high-capacity fronthaul links connecting both parts. In this paper, we consider the delay-aware fronthaul allocation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Wei Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau , Mugen Peng

This work studies the joint design of cloud and edge processing for the downlink of a fog radio access network (F-RAN). In an F-RAN, as in cloud-RAN (C-RAN), a baseband processing unit (BBU) can perform joint baseband processing on behalf…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Shlomo Shamai

The baseband-up centralization architecture of radio access networks (C-RAN) has recently been proposed to support efficient cooperative communications and reduce deployment and operational costs. However, the massive fronthaul bandwidth…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-28 Jingchu Liu , Sheng Zhou , Jie Gong , Zhisheng Niu , Shugong Xu

This paper explores the application of uplink fronthaul compression techniques within Open RAN (O-RAN) to mitigate fronthaul load in decentralized distributed MIMO (DD-MIMO) systems. With the ever-increasing demand for high data rates and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Mostafa Rahmani , Junbo Zhao , Vida Ranjbar , Ahmed Al-Tahmeesschi , Hamed Ahmadi , Sofie Pollin , Alister G. Burr

A cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is considered as a candidate to meet the expectations of higher data rate de- mands in wireless networks. In C-RAN, low energy base stations (BSs) are deployed over a small geography and are allowed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-11 Yigit Ugur , Zohaib Hassan Awan , Aydin Sezgin

Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) and massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) are two key enabling technologies to meet the diverse and stringent requirements of the 5G use cases. In a C-RAN system with massive MIMO, fronthaul is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-11 Jobin Francis , Gerhard Fettweis

This paper considers the power-efficient resource allocation problem in a cloud radio access network (C-RAN). The C-RAN architecture consists of a set of base-band units (BBUs) which are connected to a set of radio remote heads (RRHs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-22 Nahid Amani , Saeedeh Parsaeefard , Hassan Taheri , Hossein Pedram

The limited fronthaul capacity imposes a challenge on the uplink of centralized radio access network (C-RAN). We propose to boost the fronthaul capacity of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) aided C-RAN by globally optimizing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Jiankang Zhang , Sheng Chen , Xinying Guo , Jia Shi , Lajos Hanzo

This letter studies a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) with multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) deployed between users and remote radio heads (RRH). Specifically, we consider the uplink transmission where each RRH quantizes the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-12 Yu Zhang , Xuelu Wu , Hong Peng , Caijun Zhong , Xiaoming Chen

The cloud radio access network (C-RAN) provides high spectral and energy efficiency performances, low expenditures and intelligent centralized system structures to operators, which has attracted intense interests in both academia and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-30 Jian Li , Mugen Peng , Aolin Cheng , Yuling Yu , Chonggang Wang

This paper considers networked sensing in cellular network, where multiple base stations (BSs) first compress their received echo signals from multiple targets and then forward the quantized signals to the central unit (CU) via…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-09 Weifeng Zhu , Shuowen Zhang , Liang Liu

In this paper, we consider an uplink heterogeneous cloud radio access network (H-CRAN), where a macro base station (BS) coexists with many remote radio heads (RRHs). For cost-savings, only the BS is connected to the baseband unit (BBU) pool…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Wenchao Xia , Jun Zhang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Shi Jin , Hongbo Zhu

This paper considers the joint fronthaul compression and transmit beamforming design for the uplink cloud radio access network (C-RAN), in which multi-antenna user terminals communicate with a cloud-computing based centralized processor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Yuhan Zhou , Wei Yu