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The open radio access network (O-RAN) describes an industry-driven open architecture and interfaces for building next generation RANs with artificial intelligence (AI) controllers. We circulated a survey among researchers, developers, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Aly S. Abdalla , Pratheek S. Upadhyaya , Vijay K. Shah , Vuk Marojevic

Network slicing has been advocated by both academia and industry as a cost-efficient way to enable operators to provide networks on an as-a-service basis and meet the wide range of use cases that the fifth generation wireless network will…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Hongyu Xiang , Wenan Zhou , Mahmoud Daneshmand , Mugen Peng

In order to make Internet connections ubiquitous and autonomous in our daily lives, maximizing the utilization of radio resources and social information is one of the major research topics in future mobile communication technologies. Fog…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Haijun Zhang , Yu Qiu , Xiaoli Chu , Keping Long , Victor C. M. Leung

Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) is a major advancement in the telecommunications field, providing standardized interfaces that promote interoperability between different vendors' technologies, thereby enhancing network flexibility and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Lujia Liang , Lei Zhang

Energy Efficiency (EE) is a big issue in 5th Generation Wireless Communications (5G) on condition that the number of access User Equipments (UEs) are exploding and more antennas should be equipped in one Base Station (BS). In EE studies,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Di Zhang , Zhenyu Zhou , Keping Yu , Takuro Sato

Recently, Cloud-based Radio Access Network (C-RAN) has been proposed as a potential solution to reduce energy cost in cellular networks. C-RAN centralizes the baseband processing capabilities of Base Stations (BSs) in a cloud computing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Qiang Fan , Hancheng Lu , Wei Jiang , Peilin Hong , Jun Wu , Chang Wen Chen

In the Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) architecture, a Control Unit (CU) implements the baseband processing functionalities of a cluster of Base Stations (BSs), which are connected to it through a fronthaul network. This architecture…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Qing Han , Chenxi Wang , Marco Levorato , Osvaldo Simeone

This paper investigates the resource allocation problem combined with fronthaul precoding and access link sparse precoding design in cloud radio access network (C-RAN) wireless fronthaul systems.Multiple remote antenna units (RAUs) in C-RAN…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Peng Jiang , Jiafei Fu , Pengcheng Zhu , Jiamin Li , Xiaohu You

The evolution of telecommunication network towards cloud-native environments enables flexible centralization of the base band processing of radio signals. There is however a trade-off between the centralization benefits and the fronthaul…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Veronica Quintuna Rodriguez , Fabrice Guillemin , Alexandre Ferrieux , Laurent Thomas

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

Open RAN (ORAN, O-RAN) represents a novel industry-level standard for RAN (Radio Access Network), which defines interfaces that support inter-operation between vendors' equipment and offer network flexibility at a lower cost. Open RAN…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Madhusanka Liyanage , An Braeken , Shahriar Shahabuddin , Pasika Ranaweera

The Open Radio Access Network (RAN) and its embodiment through the O-RAN Alliance specifications are poised to revolutionize the telecom ecosystem. O-RAN promotes virtualized RANs where disaggregated components are connected via open…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Michele Polese , Leonardo Bonati , Salvatore D'Oro , Stefano Basagni , Tommaso Melodia

Current Distributed Radio Access Networks~(D-RANs), which are characterized by a static configuration and deployment of Base Stations~(BSs), have exposed their limitations in handling the temporal and geographical fluctuations of capacity…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Abolfazl Hajisami , Tuyen X. Tran , Dario Pompili

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 Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) offers a revolutionary approach to cellular network deployment, management and evolution. Advances in software-defined radio (SDR) and networking technology, moreover, enable delivering…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Marti Floriach-Pigem , Guillem Xercavins-Torregrosa , Vuk Marojevic , Antoni Gelonch-Bosch

Data-intensive Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications at the network edge demand a fundamental shift in Radio Access Network (RAN) design, from merely consuming AI for network optimization, to actively enabling distributed AI workloads.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Michele Polese , Niloofar Mohamadi , Salvatore D'Oro , Leonardo Bonati , Tommaso Melodia

In cloud radio access networks (C-RANs), the baseband units and radio units of base stations are separated, which requires high-capacity fronthaul links connecting both parts. In this paper, we consider the delay-aware fronthaul allocation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Wei Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau , Mugen Peng

The performance of cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is constrained by the limited fronthaul link capacity under future heavy data traffic. To tackle this problem, extensive efforts have been devoted to design efficient signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Liu Liang , Suzhi Bi , Rui Zhang

There are two fundamentally different fronthaul techniques in the downlink communication of cloud radio access network (C-RAN): the data-sharing strategy and the compression-based strategy. Under the former strategy, each user's message is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Liang Liu , Wei Yu

Recently, implementing Radio Access Network (RAN) functionalities on cloud-based computing platform has become an emerging solution that leverages the many advantages of cloud infrastructure, such as shared computing resources and storage…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Tuyen X. Tran , Dario Pompili