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Full-duplex (FD) has emerged as a disruptive communications paradigm for enhancing the achievable spectral efficiency (SE), thanks to the recent major breakthroughs in self-interference (SI) mitigation. The FD versus half-duplex (HD) SE…
Downlink joint transmission by a cluster of remote radio heads (RRHs) is an essential technique for enhancing throughput in future cellular networks. This method requires global channel state information (CSI) at the processing unit that…
Network Slice as a Service (NSaaS) is a key enabler of Beyond Fifth Generation (5G) and Sixth Generation (6G) networks, supporting next-generation applications such as extended reality (XR), immersive services, and the tactile Internet.…
Multi-connectivity (MC) for aerial users via a set of ground access points offers the potential for highly reliable communication. Within an open radio access network (O-RAN) architecture, edge clouds (ECs) enable MC with low latency for…
In this paper, the problem of opportunistic spectrum sharing for the next generation of wireless systems empowered by the cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is studied. More precisely, low-priority users employ cooperative spectrum sensing…
Cloud radio access networks (C-RAN) and Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) have emerged as promising candidates for the next generation access network techniques. MCC enables resource limited mobile devices to offload computationally intensive…
With the increasing popularity of user equipments (UEs), the corresponding UEs' generating big data (UGBD) is also growing substantially, which makes both UEs and current network structures struggling in processing those data and…
The downlink of symmetric Cloud Radio Access Networks (C-RANs) with multiple relays and a single receiver is studied. Lower and upper bounds are derived on the capacity. The lower bound is achieved by Marton's coding which facilitates…
In a Fog-Radio Access Network (F-RAN), edge caching and fronthaul connectivity to a cloud processor are utilized for the purpose of content delivery. Additional Device-to-Device (D2D) communication capabilities can support the operation of…
In this correspondence, we propose hierarchical high-altitude platform (HAP)-low-altitude platform (LAP) networks with the aim of maximizing the sum-rate of ground user equipments (UEs). The multiple aerial radio units (RUs) mounted on HAPs…
In this paper, a new queuing model for the Tactile Internet (TI) is proposed for the cloud radio access network (C-RAN) architecture of the next generation wireless networks, e.g., 5G, assisted via orthogonal frequency division multiple…
In this paper, we consider an uplink heterogeneous cloud radio access network (H-CRAN), where a macro base station (BS) coexists with many remote radio heads (RRHs). For cost-savings, only the BS is connected to the baseband unit (BBU) pool…
The combination of cloud computing capabilities at the network edge and artificial intelligence promise to turn future mobile networks into service- and radio-aware entities, able to address the requirements of upcoming latency-sensitive…
Advanced Cyber-Physical Systems aim for the balancing of restricted local resources of deeply embedded systems with cloud-based resources depending on the availability of network connectivity: in case of excellent connectivity, the…
Cloud-based Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is a promising architecture for future cellular networks, in which Baseband Units (BBUs) are placed at a centralized location, with capacity-constrained fronthaul connected to multiple distributed…
Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) refers to the virtualization of base station functionalities by means of cloud computing. This results in a novel cellular architecture in which low-cost wireless access points, known as radio units (RUs)…
To provide Uplink Centric Broadband Communication (UCBC), New Radio Unlicensed (NR-U) network has been standardized to exploit the unlicensed spectrum using Listen Before Talk (LBT) scheme to fairly coexist with the incumbent Wireless…
This paper presents a compression scheme developed for the transport of downlink radio signals in packet fronthaul of centralized-radio access networks (C-RAN). The technique is tailored to frequency-domain functional splits, in which…
Cooperative beamforming across access points (APs) and fronthaul quantization strategies are essential for cloud radio access network (C-RAN) systems. The nonconvexity of the C-RAN optimization problems, which is stemmed from per-AP power…
Open radio access network (ORAN) alliance which has been formed recently establishes a flexible, open, and smart radio access network (RAN) by combing the ideas from xRAN and cloud RAN (C-RAN). ORAN divides the functions of the RAN into…