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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

A cloud radio access network (Cloud-RAN) is a network architecture that holds the promise of meeting the explosive growth of mobile data traffic. In this architecture, all the baseband signal processing is shifted to a single baseband unit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Yuanming Shi , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Hybrid beamforming is known to be a cost-effective and wide-spread solution for a system with large-scale antenna arrays. This work studies the optimization of the analog and digital components of the hybrid beamforming solution for remote…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Jaein Kim , Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Inkyu Lee , Shlomo Shamai

Full-duplex self-backhauling is promising to provide cost-effective and flexible backhaul connectivity for ultra-dense wireless networks, but also poses a great challenge to resource management between the access and backhaul links. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Erkai Chen , Meixia Tao , Nan Zhang

In this work, we consider a downlink NOMA network with multiple single-antenna users and multi-antenna UAVs. In particular, the users are spatially located in several clusters by following the Poisson Cluster Process and each cluster is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Yanqing Xu , Fang Fang , Donghong Cai , Yi Yuan

This paper considers a multicloud radio access network (M-CRAN), wherein each cloud serves a cluster of base-stations (BS's) which are connected to the clouds through high capacity digital links. The network comprises several remote users,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Hayssam Dahrouj , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

With the explosive growth of smart devices and mobile data traffic, limited fronthaul capacity has become a notable bottleneck of green communication access networks, such as cloud radio access networks(C-RANs). In this paper, we proposed a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Zhi Yu , Ke Wang , Hong Ji , Xi Li , Heli Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the downlink secure beamforming (BF) design problem of cloud radio access networks (C-RANs) relying on multicast fronthaul, where millimeter-wave and microwave carriers are used for the access links and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Wanming Hao , Gangcan Sun , Jiankang Zhang , Pei Xiao , Lajos Hanzo

Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) has become a promising network architecture to support the massive data traffic in the next generation cellular networks. In a C-RAN, a massive number of low-cost remote antenna ports (RAPs) are connected…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Zhiyang Liu , Hong Wu , Yingxin Zhao , Shuxue Ding

The cloud radio access network (C-RAN) concept, in which densely deployed access points (APs) are empowered by cloud computing to cooperatively support mobile users (MUs), to improve mobile data rates, has been recently proposed. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-24 Shixin Luo , Rui Zhang , Teng Joon Lim

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

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

We study downlink of multiantenna cloud radio access networks (C-RANs) with finite-capacity fronthaul links. The aim is to propose joint designs of beamforming and remote radio head (RRH)-user association, subject to constraints on users'…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Kien-Giang Nguyen , Quang-Doanh Vu , Markku Juntti , Le-Nam Tran

We investigate the user-to-cell association (or user-clustering) and beamforming design for Cloud Radio Access Networks (CRANs) and Fog Radio Access Networks (FogRANs) for 5G. CRAN enables cloud centralized resource and power allocation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-06 Nicolas Pontois , Megumi Kaneko , Thi Ha Ly Dinh , Lila Boukhatem

The gains afforded by cloud radio access network (C-RAN) in terms of savings in capital and operating expenses, flexibility, interference management and network densification rely on the presence of high-capacity low-latency fronthaul…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Osvaldo Simeone , Jinkyu Kang , Joonhyuk Kang , Shlomo Shamai

This paper considers the unavailability of complete channel state information (CSI) in ultra-dense cloud radio access networks (C-RANs). The user-centric cluster is adopted to reduce the computational complexity, while the incomplete CSI is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Cunhua Pan , Hani Mehrpouyan , Yuanwei Liu , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan

In millimeter-wave communication systems with large-scale antenna arrays, conventional digital beamforming may not be cost-effective. A promising solution is the implementation of hybrid beamforming techniques, which consist of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Jaein Kim , Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Inkyu Lee , Shlomo Shamai

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

In a cloud radio access network (C-RAN), distributed remote radio heads (RRHs) are coordinated by baseband units (BBUs) in the cloud. The centralization of signal processing provides flexibility for coordinated multi-point transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Lei You , Di Yuan

The cloud radio access network (Cloud-RAN) has recently been proposed as one cost-effective and energy-efficient technique for 5G wireless networks. By moving the signal processing functionality to a single baseband unit (BBU) pool,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Yuanming Shi , Jinkun Cheng , Jun Zhang , Bo Bai , Wei Chen , Khaled B. Letaief