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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 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

Cloud radio access network (CRAN), in which remote radio heads (RRHs) are deployed to serve users in a target area, and connected to a central processor (CP) via limited-capacity links termed the fronthaul, is a promising candidate for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Reuben George Stephen , Rui Zhang

We demonstrate a distributed and a centralized 4G/5G compliant approach to minimize signaling and latency related to user mobility in cellular networks. This is crucial due to the densification of networks and the additional signaling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Merim Dzaferagic , Nicola Marchetti , Irene Macaluso

The fog-radio-access-network (F-RAN) has been proposed to address the strict latency requirements, which offloads computation tasks generated in user equipments (UEs) to the edge to reduce the processing latency. However, it incorporates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-04 Haonan Hu , Yan Jiang , Jiliang Zhang , Yanan Zheng , Qianbin Chen , Jie Zhang

The potential of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) is investigated as a promising technique for enhancing the energy efficiency of wireless networks. Specifically, the IRS enables passive beamsteering by employing many low-cost…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-13 Kevin Weinberger , Alaa Alameer Ahmad , Aydin Sezgin , Alessio Zappone

A fog computing based radio access network (F-RAN) is presented in this article as a promising paradigm for the fifth generation (5G) wireless communication system to provide high spectral and energy efficiency. The core idea is to take…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mugen Peng , Shi Yan , Kecheng Zhang , Chonggang Wang

This paper studies the joint multicast beamforming and user scheduling problem, with the objective of minimizing total transmitting power across multiple channels by jointly assigning each user to appropriate channel and designing multicast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-05 L. Zhou , Z. Xu , W. Jiang , W. Luo

As a promising paradigm for the fifth generation wireless communication (5G) system, the fog radio access network (F-RAN) has been proposed as an advanced socially-aware mobile networking architecture to provide high spectral efficiency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Mugen Peng , Kecheng Zhang

This paper is interested in maximizing the total throughput of cloud radio access networks (CRANs) in which multiple radio remote heads (RRHs) are connected to a central computing unit known as the cloud. The transmit frame of each RRH…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Mohammed S. Al-Abiad , Ahmed Douik , Sameh Sorour , MD Jahangir Hossain

To mitigate the severe inter-tier interference and enhance limited cooperative gains resulting from the constrained and non-ideal transmissions between adjacent base stations in heterogeneous networks (HetNets), heterogeneous cloud radio…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-10-14 Mugen Peng , Yuan Li , Jiamo Jiang , Jian Li , Chonggang Wang

We propose a low complexity antenna selection algorithm for low target rate users in cloud radio access networks. The algorithm consists of two phases: In the first phase, each remote radio head (RRH) determines whether to be included in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Jeonghun Park , Robert W. Heath

As a promising paradigm to reduce both capital and operating expenditures, the cloud radio access network (C-RAN) has been shown to provide high spectral efficiency and energy efficiency. Motivated by its significant theoretical performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Mugen Peng , Yaohua Sun , Xuelong Li , Zhendong Mao , Chonggang Wang

Radio access network (RAN) slicing is a key technology that enables 5G network to support heterogeneous requirements of generic services, namely ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) and enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB). In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Abderrahime Filali , Zoubeir Mlika , Soumaya Cherkaoui , Abdellatif Kobbane

Explosive growth in the use of smart wireless devices has necessitated the provision of higher data rates and always-on connectivity, which are the main motivators for designing the fifth generation (5G) systems. To achieve higher system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Sahar Imtiaz , Hadi Ghauch , M. Mahboob Ur Rahman , George Koudouridis , James Gross

Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) are transforming telecommunications by shifting from centralized to distributed architectures, promoting flexibility, interoperability, and innovation through open interfaces and multi-vendor environments.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Zaineh Abughazzah , Emna Baccour , Ahmed Refaey , Amr Mohamed , Mounir Hamdi

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems, particularly those leveraging multi-user multiple-input and multiple-output (MU-MIMO) with hybrid beamforming, face challenges in optimizing user throughput and minimizing latency due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Ramin Hashemi , Vismika Ranasinghe , Teemu Veijalainen , Petteri Kela , Risto Wichman

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

The recently proposed open-radio access network (O-RAN) architecture embraces cloudification and network function virtualization techniques to perform the base-band function processing by dis-aggregated radio units (RUs), distributed units…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Sourav Mondal , Marco Ruffini

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

Incorporating cloud computing into heterogeneous networks, the heterogeneous cloud radio access network (H-CRAN) has been proposed as a promising paradigm to enhance both spectral and energy efficiencies. Developing interference suppression…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Mugen Peng , Hongyu Xiang , Yuanyuan Cheng , Shi Yan , H. Vincent Poor