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Energy efficiency in cellular networks is a growing concern for cellular operators to not only maintain profitability, but also to reduce the overall environment effects. This emerging trend of achieving energy efficiency in cellular…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-09-27 Ziaul Hasan , Hamidreza Boostanimehr , Vijay K. Bhargava

Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) architecture is a new mobile network architecture that enables cooperative baseband processing and information sharing among multiple cells and achieves high adaptability to nonuniform traffic by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Yi Li , M. Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar

The growing demand for radio access networks (RANs) driven by advanced wireless technology and the everincreasing mobile traffic, faces significant energy consumption challenges that threaten sustainability. To address this, an architecture…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Maryam Salamatmoghadasi , Amir Mehrabian , Halim Yanikomeroglu

In the recent past, many mobile/telecom operators have seen a continuously growing demand for ubiquitous high-speed wireless access and an unprecedented increase in connected wireless devices. As a result, we have seen explosive growth in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Topside E. Mathonsi , Tshimangadzo M. Tshilongamulenzhe

Within 3GPP, the campus network architecture has evolved as a deployment option for industries and can be provisioned using network slicing over already installed 5G public network infrastructure. In campus networks, the ultra-reliable low…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Iulisloi Zacarias , Francisco Carpio , André Costa Drummond , Admela Jukan

In this paper, to minimize the on-grid energy cost in a large-scale green cellular network, we jointly design the optimal base station (BS) on/off operation policy and the on-grid energy purchase policy from a network-level perspective. Due…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-24 Yueling Che , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

Densely deployed base stations are responsible for the majority of the energy consumed in Radio access network (RAN). While these deployments are crucial to deliver the required data rate in busy hours of the day, the network can save…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Xuanyu Liang , Ahmed Al-Tahmeesschi , Swarna Chetty , Cicek Cavdar , Berk Canberk , Hamed Ahmadi

Network slicing enables multiple virtual networks to be instantiated and customized to meet heterogeneous use case requirements over 5G and beyond network deployments. However, most of the solutions available today face scalability issues…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Farhad Rezazadeh , Lanfranco Zanzi , Francesco Devoti , Hatim Chergui , Xavier Costa-Perez , Christos Verikoukis

Existing cellular networks suffer from inflexible and expensive equipment, and complex control-plane protocols. To address these challenges, we present SoftCell, a scalable architecture for supporting fine-grained policies for mobile…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-05-16 Xin Jin , Li Erran Li , Laurent Vanbever , Jennifer Rexford

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

Network slicing is a well assessed approach enabling virtualization of the mobile core and radio access network (RAN) in the emerging 5th Generation New Radio. Slicing is of paramount importance when dealing with the emerging and diverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Lorenzo Bellone , Boris Galkin , Emiliano Traversi , Enrico Natalizio

Recent advancements in wireless technologies towards the next-generation cellular networks have brought a new era that made it possible to apply cellular technology on traditionally-wired networks with tighter requirements, such as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Kerim Gökarslan

5G and beyond wireless networks are the upcoming evolution for the current cellular networks to provide the essential requirement of future demands such as high data rate, low energy consumption, and low latency to provide seamless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Nazanin Moosavi , Mahnaz Sinaie , Paeiz Azmi , Pin-Hsun Lin , Eduard Jorswieck

A hybrid cloud radio access network (H-CRAN) architecture has been proposed to alleviate the midhaul capacity limitation in C-RAN. In this architecture, functional splitting is utilized to distribute the processing functions between a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Ajay Sriram , Meysam Masoudi , Abdulrahman Alabbasi , Cicek Cavdar

Satellite-terrestrial integrated networks (STIN) are envisioned as a promising architecture for ubiquitous network connections to support diversified services. In this paper, we propose a novel resource slicing scheme with cross-cell…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Mingcheng He , Huaqing Wu , Conghao Zhou , Xuemin , Shen

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of large number of randomly deployed energy constrained sensor nodes. Sensor nodes have ability to sense and send sensed data to Base Station (BS). Sensing as well as transmitting data towards BS…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-03-22 N. Javaid , T. N. Qureshi , A. H. Khan , A. Iqbal , E. Akhtar , M. Ishfaq

Radio Access Networks (RANs) for telecommunications represent large agglomerations of interconnected hardware consisting of hundreds of thousands of transmitting devices (cells). Such networks undergo frequent and often heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Igor Kozlov , Dmitriy Rivkin , Wei-Di Chang , Di Wu , Xue Liu , Gregory Dudek

Heterogeneous cloud radio access networks (HCRANs) are potential solutions to improve both spectral and energy efficiencies by embedding cloud computing into heterogeneous networks (HetNets). The interference among remote radio heads (RRHs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mugen Peng , Xinqian Xie , Qiang Hu , Jie Zhang , H. Vincent Poor

Base station (BS) deployment and operation are fundamental to network performance, yet they require accurate demand understanding, which remains difficult for operators. Cellular traffic in dense urban regions is well measured but highly…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shiyuan Zhang , Jiale Du , Yuanwei Liu , Kaibin Huang , Hongyang Du

This paper investigates sensing, communication, security, and energy efficiency of the heterogeneous integrated sensing and communication networks under challenging operational conditions. We focus on scenarios in which communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xudong Li , Rugui Yao , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos