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The Cloud-Radio Access Network (C-RAN) cellular architecture relies on the transfer of complex baseband signals to and from a central unit (CU) over digital fronthaul links to enable the virtualization of the baseband processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Wonju Lee , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang , Shlomo Shamai

Mobile networks of the future are predicted to be much denser than today's networks in order to cater to increasing user demands. In this context, cloud based radio access networks have garnered significant interest as a cost effective…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vinay Suryaprakash , Peter Rost , Gerhard Fettweis

This paper studies transmission strategies for the downlink of a cloud radio access network, in which the base stations are connected to a centralized cloud-computing based processor with digital fronthaul or backhaul links. We provide a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Pratik Patil , Binbin Dai , Wei Yu

With the rapid growth in the telecommunications industry moving towards 5G and beyond (5GB) and the emergence of data-hungry and time-sensitive applications, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) are faced with a considerable challenge to keep up…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Abdulhalim Fayad , Manish Jha , Tibor Cinkler , Jacek Rak

Software-defined networking (SDN) is the concept of decoupling the control and data planes to create a flexible and agile network, assisted by a central controller. However, the performance of SDN highly depends on the limitations in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-06 Chen-Feng Liu , Sumudu Samarakoon , Mehdi Bennis

Ultra-low latency is the most important requirement of the Tactile Internet (TI), which is one of the proposed services for the next-generation wireless network (NGWN), e.g., fifth generation (5G) network. In this paper, a new queuing model…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Narges Gholipoor , Saeedeh Parsaeefard , Mohammad Reza Javan , Nader Mokari , Hamid Saeedi , Hossein Pishro-Nik

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

As wireless connectivity continues to evolve towards 6G, there is an ever-increasing demand to not only deliver higher throughput, lower latency, and improved reliability, but also do so as efficiently as possible. To this point, the term…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Joseph Boccuzzi

Cloud-Radio Access Networks (Cloud-RANs) are separating the mobile networks base station functions into three units, the connection between the two of them is referred to as the fronthaul network. This work demonstrates the transmission of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Line Larsen , Frank Slyne , Ghizlane Mountaser , Marco Ruffini , Toktam Mahmoodi

This paper considers a cloud-RAN architecture with cache-enabled multi-antenna Edge Nodes (ENs) that deliver content to cache-enabled end-users. The ENs are connected to a central server via limited-capacity fronthaul links, and, based on…

This work studies the advantages of coded multicasting for the downlink of a Fog Radio Access Network (F-RAN) system equipped with a multicast fronthaul link. In this system, a control unit (CU) in the baseband processing unit (BBU) pool is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Wonju Lee , Shlomo Shamai

Cloud RAN (C-RAN) is a promising enabler for distributed massive MIMO systems, yet is vulnerable to its fronthaul congestion. To cope with the limited fronthaul capacity, this paper proposes a hybrid analog-digital precoding design that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Jihong Park , Dong Min Kim , Elisabeth De Carvalho , Carles Navarro Manchón

The anticipated launch of the Sixth Generation (6G) of mobile technology by 2030 will mark a significant milestone in the evolution of wireless communication, ushering in a new era with advancements in technology and applications. 6G is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Abdulhalim Fayad , Tibor Cinkler , Jacek Rak

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications has been recently standardized for use in the fifth generation (5G) of cellular networks, fulfilling the promise of multi-gigabit mobile throughput of current and future mobile radio network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Eugenio Moro , Gabriele Gemmi , Michele Polese , Leonardo Maccari , Antonio Capone , Tommaso Melodia

Centralized coded caching and delivery is studied for a radio access combination network (RACN), whereby a set of $H$ edge nodes (ENs), connected to a cloud server via orthogonal fronthaul links with limited capacity, serve a total of $K$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Ahmed Roushdy , Abolfazl Seyed Motahari , Mohammed Nafie , Deniz Gunduz

The conventional design of cellular systems prescribes the separation of uplink and downlink transmissions via time-division or frequency-division duplex. Recent advances in analog and digital domain self-interference interference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 O. Simeone , E. Erkip , S. Shamai

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

Large-scale cloud radio access network (LS-CRAN) is a highly promising next-generation cellular network architecture whereby lots of base stations (BSs) equipped with a massive antenna array are connected to a cloud-computing based central…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Kyung Jun Choi , Kwang Soon Kim

Ultra dense cloud small cell network (UDCSNet), which combines cloud computing and massive deployment of small cells, is a promising technology for the fifth-generation (5G) LTE-U mobile communications because it can accommodate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Haijun Zhang , Yanjie Dong , Julian Cheng , Md. Jahangir Hossain , Victor C. M. Leung

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has recently been recognized as a promising scheme for a fusion center to achieve fast distributed data aggregation in wireless networks via exploiting the superposition property of multiple-access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-23 Lukuan Xing , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi