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Multicasting is a fundamental networking primitive utilized by numerous applications. This also holds true for cognitive radio networks (CRNs) which have been proposed as a solution to the problems that emanate from the static non-adaptive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-11-10 Junaid Qadir , Adeel Baig , Asad Ali , Quratulain Shafi

The exponential growth of mobile data traffic is driving the deployment of dense wireless networks, which will not only impose heavy backhaul burdens, but also generate considerable power consumption. Introducing caches to the wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Xi Peng , Yuanming Shi , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

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

Previous works on cache-enabled small-cell networks (SCNs) with probabilistic caching often assume that each user is connected to the nearest small base station (SBS) among all that have cached its desired content. The user may, however,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Xianzhe Xu , Meixia Tao

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

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

In this paper, the problem of content-aware user clustering and content caching in wireless small cell networks is studied. In particular, a service delay minimization problem is formulated, aiming at optimally caching contents at the small…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mohammed S. ElBamby , Mehdi Bennis , Walid Saad , Matti Latva-aho

In this paper, an underlay cognitive radio (CR) multicast network, consisting of a cognitive base station (CBS) and multiple multicast groups of secondary users (SUs), is considered. All SUs, belonging to a particular multicast group, are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Sangeeta Bhattacharjee , Tamaghna Acharya , Uma Bhattacharya

It is known that data rates in standard cellular networks are limited due to inter-cell interference. An effective solution of this problem is to use the multi-cell cooperation idea. In Cloud Radio Access Network, which is a candidate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Fehmi Emre Kadan , Ali Özgür Yılmaz

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

In this paper, cooperative caching is investigated in fog radio access networks (F-RAN). To maximize the offloaded traffic, cooperative caching optimization problem is formulated. By analyzing the relationship between clustering and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Yanxiang Jiang , Xiaoting Cui , Mehdi Bennis , Fu-Chun Zheng

In many wireless communication applications, it is desirable to transmit the same data to multiple user equipments (UEs). Physical layer multicasting presents an efficient transmission topology to exploit the beamforming capabilities at the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Mahmoud Zaher , Emil Björnson , Marina Petrova

The deployment of small cells is expected to gain huge momentum in the near future, as a solution for managing the skyrocketing mobile data demand growth. Local caching of popular files at the small cell base stations has been recently…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-03-03 Konstantinos Poularakis , George Iosifidis , Vasilis Sourlas , Leandros Tassiulas

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

This paper considers the uplink of a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) comprised of several multi-antenna remote radio units (RUs) which compress the signals that they receive from multiple mobile users (MUs) and forward them to a CU via…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Marzieh Najafi , Vahid Jamali , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

Caching popular contents at the edge of cellular networks has been proposed to reduce the load, and hence the cost of backhaul links. It is significant to decide which files should be cached and where to cache them. In this paper, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Shuo Wang , Xing Zhang , Kun Yang , Lin Wang , Wenbo Wang

In this paper, we consider the robust beamforming design in a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided cell-free (CF) system considering the channel state information (CSI) uncertainties of both the direct channels and cascaded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Jiacheng Yao , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chau Yuen , Xiaohu You

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 focuses on edge caching in mm/{\mu}Wave hybrid wireless networks, in which all mmWave SBSs and {\mu}Wave MBSs are capable of storing contents to alleviate the traffic burden on the backhaul link that connect the BSs and the core…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-02 Tong Zhang , Sudip Biswas , Keshav Singh , Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

Downlink beamforming techniques with low signaling overhead are proposed for joint processing coordinated (JP) multi-point transmission. The objective is to maximize the weighted sum rate within joint transmission clusters. As the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Jarkko Kaleva , Antti Tölli , Markku Juntti , Randall Berry , Michael Honig