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Cloud radio-access networks (C-RAN) have been proposed as an enabling technology for keeping up with the requirements of next-generation wireless networks. Most existing works on C-RAN consider the uplink or the downlink separately.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Mahmoud Hasabelnaby , Anas Chaaban

In this paper, we study a network of distributed radar sensors that collaboratively perform sensing tasks by transmitting their quantized radar signals over capacity-constrained fronthaul links to a central unit for joint processing. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-27 Christian Eckrich , Abdelhak M. Zoubir , Vahid Jamali

This paper considers a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) system where the precoding matrix is selected in a baseband unit (BBU) and then sent over a digital fronthaul to the transmitting antenna array. The fronthaul has a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Emil Björnson , Joakim Jaldén

This paper presents a compression scheme developed for the transport of downlink radio signals in packet fronthaul of centralized-radio access networks (C-RAN). The technique is tailored to frequency-domain functional splits, in which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-13 Cleverson Nahum , Leonardo Ramalho , Joary Fortuna , Chenguang Lu , Miguel Berg , Igor Almeida , Aldebaro Klautau

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

In this paper, a centralized Power Control (PC) scheme and an interference channel learning method are jointly tackled to allow a Cognitive Radio Network (CRN) access to the frequency band of a Primary User (PU) operating based on an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-10-23 Anestis Tsakmalis , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

Popular content caching is expected to play a major role in efficiently reducing backhaul congestion and achieving user satisfaction in next generation mobile radio systems. Consider the downlink of a cache-enabled cloud radio access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Oussama Dhifallah , Hayssam Dahrouj , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper considers the channel estimation (CE) and multi-user detection (MUD) problems in cloud radio access network (C-RAN). Assuming that active users are sparse in the network, we solve CE and MUD problems with compressed sensing (CS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Qi He , Tony Q. S. Quek , Zhi Chen , Shaoqian Li

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

Featured by centralized processing and cloud based infrastructure, Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is a promising solution to achieve an unprecedented system capacity in future wireless cellular networks. The huge capacity gain mainly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Congmin Fan , Ying Jun Zhang , Xiaojun Yuan

Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is a promising technology for fifth-generation (5G) cellular systems. However the burden imposed by the huge amount of data to be collected (in the uplink) from the radio remote heads (RRHs) and processed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Alessandro Brighente , Stefano Tomasin

Offloading computation-intensive tasks to edge clouds has become an efficient way to support resource constraint edge devices. However, task offloading delay is an issue largely due to the networks with limited capacities between edge…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Anselme Ndikumana , Kim Khoa Nguyen , Mohamed Cheriet

Centralized Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is a new paradigm for wireless networks that centralizes the signal processing in a computing cloud, allowing commodity computational resources to be pooled. While C-RAN improves utilization and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Kyle Whetzel , Matthew C. Valenti

In this work we propose a fronthaul compression scheme for distributed MIMO systems with multi-antenna receivers, in which, prior to signal quantisation, dimension reduction is performed at each receiver by matched filtering the received…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Fred Wiffen , Mohammud Z. Bocus , Angela Doufexi , Woon Hau Chin

Modulation compression is a technique considered in the recent Open-RAN (O-RAN) framework, which has continued the 3GPP effort towards the definition of new virtualized and multi-vendor RAN architectures. Basically, fronthaul compression is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Sandra Lagen , Lorenza Giupponi , Andreas Hansson , Xavier Gelabert

This paper addresses the coordinated scheduling problem in cloud-enabled networks. Consider the downlink of a cloud-radio access network (C-RAN), where the cloud is only responsible for the scheduling policy and the synchronization of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Ahmed Douik , Hayssam Dahrouj , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Cloud radio access network (CRAN), in which remote radio heads (RRHs) are deployed to serve users in a target area, and connected to a central processor (CP) via limited-capacity links termed the fronthaul, is a promising candidate for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Reuben George Stephen , Rui Zhang

The cloud radio access network (C-RAN) has become the foundational structure for various emerging communication paradigms, leveraging the flexible deployment of distributed access points (APs) and centralized task processing. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Chang Wu , Hancheng Lu , Yuang Chen , Langtian Qin

The recent adaption of virtualization technologies in the next generation mobile network enables 5G base station to be segregated into a Radio Unit (RU), a Distributed Unit (DU), and a Central Unit (CU) to support Cloud based Radio Access…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Himank Gupta , Antony Franklin A , Mayank Kumar , Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma

In a multistatic cloud radar system, receive sensors measure signals sent by a transmit element and reflected from a target and possibly clutter, in the presence of interference and noise. The receive sensors communicate over non-ideal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-13 Seongah Jeong , Shahrouz Khalili , Osvaldo Simeone , Alexander Haimovich , Joonhyuk Kang