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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

Model quantization can reduce the model size and computational latency, it has become an essential technique for the deployment of deep neural networks on resourceconstrained hardware (e.g., mobile phones and embedded devices). The existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Qigong Sun , Yan Ren , Licheng Jiao , Xiufang Li , Fanhua Shang , Fang Liu

Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is emerging as a transformative architecture for the next generation of mobile cellular networks. In C-RAN, the Baseband Unit (BBU) is decoupled from the Base Station (BS) and consolidated in a centralized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Tuyen X. Tran , Ayman Younis , Dario Pompili

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Jian Li , Jingxian Wu , Mugen Peng , Ping Zhang

Network virtualization and cloudification in Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) enable joint orchestration of the processing and fronthaul resources, which are essential for realizing the energy-saving potential of cell-free massive MIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

Uplink-downlink duality refers to the fact that under a sum-power constraint, the capacity regions of a Gaussian multiple-access channel and a Gaussian broadcast channel with Hermitian transposed channel matrices are identical. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Liang Liu , Ya-Feng Liu , Pratik Patil , Wei Yu

Downlink precoding is considered for multi-path multi-input single-output channels where the base station uses orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing and low-resolution signaling. A quantized coordinate minimization (QCM) algorithm is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Andrei Stefan Nedelcu , Fabian Steiner , Gerhard Kramer

Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) has emerged as a potential candidate of the next generation access network technology to address the increasing mobile traffic, while mobile cloud computing (MCC) offers a prospective solution to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang , Chathura Sarathchandra Magurawalage

With the dense deployment of the remote radio heads (RRHs), the huge network power consumption has become a great challenge for green cloud radio access networks (Cloud-RANs), and multiuser downlink beamforming has been proposed as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Zhi Yu , Ke Wang , Lei Chen , Hong Ji

This paper studies the optimal bit allocation for shape-gain vector quantization of wireless channels in multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink systems based on linear precoding. Our design minimizes the mean…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-30 Muhammad Nazmul Islam , Raviraj Adve , Behrouz Khoshnevis

Fog Radio Access Network (F-RAN) exploits cached contents at edge nodes (ENs) and fronthaul connection to the cloud for content delivery. Assuming dedicated fronthaul links between cloud and each EN, previous works focused on analyses of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Seyyed Mohammadreza Azimi

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 this work, we present block diagonalization and power allocation algorithms for large-scale multiple-antenna systems with coarsely quantized signals. In particular, we develop Coarse Quantization-Aware Block Diagonalization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-09 S. Pinto , R. de Lamare

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)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Mohammad. Moltafet , Saeedeh. Parsaeefard , Mohammad R. Javan , Nader. Mokari

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

We characterize the uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) rates of a full-duplex cloud radio access network (C-RAN) with all participate and single best remote radio head (RRH) association schemes. Specifically, multi-antenna equipped RRHs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Mohammadali Mohammadi , Himal A. Suraweera , Chintha Tellambura

Many wireless systems divide the baseband processing between two locations, interconnected by a fronthaul. This paper examines the impact of fronthaul quantization on multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Starting from a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

In the Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) architecture, the baseband signals from multiple remote radio heads are processed in a centralized baseband unit (BBU) pool. This architecture allows network operators to adapt the BBU's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Anders E. Kalør , Mauricio I. Agurto , Nuno K. Pratas , Jimmy J. Nielsen , Petar Popovski

Configuring the hybrid precoders and combiners in a millimeter wave (mmWave) multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system is challenging in frequency selective channels. In this paper, we develop a system that uses…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 J. P. González-Coma , J. Rodríguez-Fernández , N. González-Prelcic , L. Castedo , R. W. Heath

Near-term quantum machine learning must balance expressivity, optimization, and hardware constraints. We study quantum re-uploading units (QRUs) as compact circuits and compare them, at matched parameter count, to a standard mono-encoded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Léa Cassé , Bernhard Pfahringer , Albert Bifet , Frédéric Magniette