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Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) has been recognized as a promising physical layer strategy for 6G. Motivated by ever increasing popularity of cache-enabled content delivery in wireless communications, this paper proposes an innovative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Robert-Jeron Reifert , Alaa Alameer Ahmad , Yijie Mao , Aydin Sezgin , Bruno Clerckx

Modern fronthaul links in wireless systems must transport high-dimensional signals under stringent bandwidth and latency constraints, which makes compression indispensable. Traditional strategies such as compressed sensing, scalar…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Keqin Zhang

In this work we propose a fronthaul compression scheme for distributed MIMO systems with multi-antenna receivers, in which, prior to signal quantisation, dimension reduction is performed at each receiver by matched filtering the received…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Fred Wiffen , Mohammud Z. Bocus , Angela Doufexi , Woon Hau Chin

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

In traditional Fog-Radio Access Networks (F-RANs), enhanced remote radio heads (eRRHs) are connected to a macro base station (MBS) through fronthaul links. Deploying a massive number of eRRHs is not always feasible due to site constraints…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Hesameddin Mokhtarzadeh , Mohammed S. Al-Abiad , Md Jahangir Hossain , Julian Cheng

The cloud radio access network (C-RAN) has become the foundational structure for various emerging communication paradigms, leveraging the flexible deployment of distributed access points (APs) and centralized task processing. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Chang Wu , Hancheng Lu , Yuang Chen , Langtian Qin

To account for the randomness of propagation channels and interference levels in hierarchical spectrum sharing, a novel approach to multihop routing is introduced for cognitive random access networks, whereby packets are randomly routed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-05 Emiliano Dall'Anese , Georgios B. Giannakis

Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is a prominent architecture for 5G wireless cellular system that is based on the centralization of baseband processing for multiple distributed radio units (RUs) at a control unit (CU). In this work, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Seongah Jeong , Osvaldo Simeone , Alexander Haimovich , Joonhyuk Kang

A multistatic radar set-up is considered in which distributed receive antennas are connected to a Fusion Center (FC) via limited-capacity backhaul links. Similar to cloud radio access networks in communications, the receive antennas…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Shahrouz Khalili , Osvaldo Simeone , Alexander M. Haimovich

Centralized coded caching and delivery is studied for a radio access combination network (RACN), whereby a set of $H$ edge nodes (ENs), connected to a cloud server via orthogonal fronthaul links with limited capacity, serve a total of $K$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Ahmed Roushdy , Abolfazl Seyed Motahari , Mohammed Nafie , Deniz Gunduz

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 ultra-dense cloud radio access network (UD-CRAN), in which remote radio heads (RRHs) are densely deployed in the network, is considered. To reduce the channel estimation overhead, we focus on the design of robust transmit beamforming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-12 Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Lajos Hanzo

This paper studies the resource allocation algorithm design for multiuser coordinated multipoint (CoMP) networks with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT). In particular, remote radio heads (RRHs) are connected to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-03 Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

To alleviate the burdens on the fronthaul and reduce the transmit latency, the device-to-device (D2D) communication is presented in cloud radio access networks (C-RANs). Considering dynamic traffic arrivals and time-varying channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Yitao Mo , Mugen Peng , Hongyu Xiang , Yaohua Sun , Xiaodong Ji

Cloud-Radio Access Networks (Cloud-RANs) are separating the mobile networks base station functions into three units, the connection between the two of them is referred to as the fronthaul network. This work demonstrates the transmission of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Line Larsen , Frank Slyne , Ghizlane Mountaser , Marco Ruffini , Toktam Mahmoodi

We consider cooperative radio access network architectures, especially distributed massive MIMO and Cloud RAN, considering their similarities and differences. We address in particular the major challenge posed to both by the implementation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Alister Burr , Manijeh Bashar , Dick Maryopi

Cloud-radio access network (C-RAN) can enable cell-less operation by connecting distributed remote radio heads (RRHs) via fronthaul links to a powerful central unit. In conventional C-RAN, baseband signals are forwarded after quantization/…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Daniyal Amir Awan , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Zoran Utkovski , Slawomir Stanczak

Due to the unique physical-layer characteristics associated with MIMO and cognitive radio (CR), the network performance is tightly coupled with mechanisms at the physical, link, network, and transport layers. In this paper, we consider an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Weiqiang Xu , Wenchu Yuan , Qingjiang Shi , Xiaodong Wang , Yake Zhang

Two mobile users communicate with a central decoder via two base stations. Communication between the mobile users and the base stations takes place over a Gaussian interference channel with constant channel gains or quasi-static fading.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Roy Karasik , Osvaldo Simeone , Shlomo Shamai

In this paper, optimal content caching strategy is proposed to jointly minimize the cell average outage probability and fronthaul usage in cloud radio access network (Cloud-RAN). At first, an accurate closed form expression of the outage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Zhun Ye , Cunhua Pan , Huiling Zhu , Jiangzhou Wang