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This paper considers the uplink of a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) comprised of several multi-antenna remote radio units (RUs) which send the data that they received from multiple mobile users (MUs) to a central unit (CU) via a…
Network slicing to support multi-tenancy plays a key role in improving the performance of 5G networks. In this paper, we propose a two time-scale framework for the reservation-based network slicing in the backhaul and Radio Access Network…
Previous works on cell-free massive MIMO mostly consider physical-layer and fronthaul transport aspects. How to deploy cell-free massive MIMO functionality in a practical wireless system is an open problem. This paper proposes a new…
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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…
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Massive MIMO and C-RAN are two promising techniques for implementing future wireless communication systems, where a large number of antennas are deployed either being co-located at the base station (BS) or totally distributed at separate…
In this paper, we study the stochastic optimization of cloud radio access networks (C-RANs) by joint remote radio head (RRH) activation and beamforming in the downlink. Unlike most previous works that only consider a static optimization…
Next generation wireless networks are expected to be extremely complex due to their massive heterogeneity in terms of the types of network architectures they incorporate, the types and numbers of smart IoT devices they serve, and the types…
In this paper, by considering multiple slices, a downlink transmission of a sparse code multiple access (SCMA) based cloud-radio access network (C-RAN) is investigated. In this regard, by supposing multiple input and single output (MISO)…
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