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This paper considers a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a multi-antenna base station (BS) with transceiver hybrid analog-digital arrays transmits dual-functional signals to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yizhuo Wang , Shuowen Zhang

This paper studies an uplink multicell joint processing model in which the base-stations are connected to a centralized processing server via rate-limited digital backhaul links. Unlike previous studies where the centralized processor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-28 Lei Zhou , Wei Yu

Full-duplex self-backhauling is promising to provide cost-effective and flexible backhaul connectivity for ultra-dense wireless networks, but also poses a great challenge to resource management between the access and backhaul links. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Erkai Chen , Meixia Tao , Nan Zhang

Ultra-dense (UD) wireless networks and cloud radio access networks (CRAN) are two promising network architectures for the emerging fifth-generation (5G) wireless communication systems. By jointly employing them, a new appealing network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Reuben George Stephen , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we aim at maximizing the weighted sum-rate (WSR) of rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) in multi-user multi-antenna transmission networks through the joint optimization of rate allocation and beamforming. Unlike…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Tianyu Fang , Yijie Mao

With the evolution of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology toward extremely large (XL) MIMO systems comprising hundreds of, or more, antennas, this work investigates scalable and fronthaul-efficient reception design for the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Dogon Kim , Hyunmin Noh , Seok-Hwan Park

We propose a power-and rate-adaptation scheme for cloud radio access networks (C-RANs), where each radio remote head (RRH) is connected to the baseband unit (BBU) pool through optical links. The RRHs jointly support the users by efficiently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Hong Ren , Nan Liu , Cunhua Pan , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Xiaohu You , Lajos Hanzo

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

Large-scale multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems and cloud radio access networks (C-RANs) are considered promising technologies for the fifth generation (5G) of wireless networks. In these technologies, the use of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-08 T. Cunha , R. C. de Lamare , T. N. Ferreira , L. T. N. Landau

Cognitive beamforming (CB) is a multi-antenna technique for efficient spectrum sharing between primary users (PUs) and secondary users (SUs) in a cognitive radio network. Specifically, a multi-antenna SU transmitter applies CB to suppress…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-18 Kaibin Huang , Rui Zhang

The performance of cloud-based small cell networks (C-SCNs) relies highly on a capacity-limited fronthaul, which degrade quality of service when it is saturated. Coded caching is a promising approach to addressing these challenges, as it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Xiongwei Wu , Qiang Li , Victor C. M. Leung , P. C. Ching

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a key paradigm for next-generation wireless systems, which allows wireless resources to be used for data transmission and target sensing simultaneously. In this paper, multi-user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Ling He , Vaibhav Kumar , Roberto Bomfin , Yingyang Chen , Miaowen Wen , Marwa Chafii

Compressed sensing (CS)-based techniques have been widely applied in the grant-free non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to a single-antenna base station (BS). In this paper, we consider the multi-antenna reception at the BS for uplink…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Guoqing Xia , Pei Xiao , Bohan Li , Yue Zhang , Huiyu Zhou

In a multistatic cloud radar system, receive sensors measure signals sent by a transmit element and reflected from a target and possibly clutter, in the presence of interference and noise. The receive sensors communicate over non-ideal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-13 Seongah Jeong , Shahrouz Khalili , Osvaldo Simeone , Alexander Haimovich , Joonhyuk Kang

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems may face a heavy computation burden since the sensory data needs to be further processed. This paper studies a novel system that integrates sensing, communication, and computation, aiming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Yapeng Zhao , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Yong Zeng , Ruiqi Liu , Weidong Mei , Fen Hou , Shaodan Ma

This paper studies transmission strategies for the downlink of a cloud radio access network, in which the base stations are connected to a centralized cloud-computing based processor with digital fronthaul or backhaul links. We provide a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Pratik Patil , Binbin Dai , Wei Yu

The use of a large excess of service antennas brings a variety of performance benefits to distributed MIMO C-RAN, but the corresponding high fronthaul data loads can be problematic in practical systems with limited fronthaul capacity. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Fred Wiffen , Woon Hau Chin , Angela Doufexi

This paper studies joint uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) resource allocation in user-centric orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) cloud radio access network (CRAN), where the users select the distributed remote radio heads…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Zehong Lin , Yuan Liu

The uplink where both the transmitter and receiver can use a large antenna array is considered. This is proposed as a method of antenna offloading and connecting small cell access points (SCAP) in a Two-Tier cellular network. Due to having…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Namal Rajatheva , Elvino Sousa

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been recognized as one of the key technologies capable of simultaneously improving communication and sensing services in future wireless networks. Moreover, the introduction of recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Nemanja Stefan Perović , Keshav Singh , Chih-Peng Li , Octavia A. Dobre , Mark F. Flanagan