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Popular content caching is expected to play a major role in efficiently reducing backhaul congestion and achieving user satisfaction in next generation mobile radio systems. Consider the downlink of a cache-enabled cloud radio access…
A cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is a promising cellular network, wherein densely deployed multi-antenna remote-radio-heads (RRHs) jointly serve many users using the same time-frequency resource. By extremely high signaling overheads…
This paper addresses the coordinated scheduling problem in cloud-enabled networks. Consider the downlink of a cloud-radio access network (C-RAN), where the cloud is only responsible for the scheduling policy and the synchronization of the…
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/…
Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is emerging as a transformative architecture for the next generation of mobile cellular networks. In C-RAN, the Baseband Unit (BBU) is decoupled from the Base Station (BS) and consolidated in a centralized…
Over the last few years, Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) has arisen as a transformative architecture for 5G cellular networks that brings the flexibility and agility of cloud computing to wireless communications. At the same time,…
Massive MIMO's immense potential to serve large number of users at fast data rates also comes with the caveat of requiring tremendous processing power. This favours a centralized radio access network (C-RAN) architecture that concentrates…
Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) and massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) are two key enabling technologies to meet the diverse and stringent requirements of the 5G use cases. In a C-RAN system with massive MIMO, fronthaul is…
In this paper, we investigate the downlink secure beamforming (BF) design problem of cloud radio access networks (C-RANs) relying on multicast fronthaul, where millimeter-wave and microwave carriers are used for the access links and…
In network MIMO cellular systems, subsets of base stations (BSs), or remote radio heads, are connected via backhaul links to central units (CUs) that perform joint encoding in the downlink and joint decoding in the uplink. Focusing on the…
The evolution of wireless mobile networks towards cloudification, where Radio Access Network (RAN) functions can be hosted at either a central or distributed locations, offers many benefits like low cost deployment, higher capacity, and…
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…
We investigate the precoding, remote radio head (RRH) selection and signal splitting in the simultaneous wireless information and power transferring (SWIPT) cloud radio access networks \mbox{(C-RANs)}. The objective is to minimize the power…
There is a widely held belief that future Radio Access Network (RAN) architectures will be characterized by increased levels of virtualization, whereby base station functionalities, traditionally residing at a single location, will be…
Heterogeneous cloud radio access networks (HCRANs) are potential solutions to improve both spectral and energy efficiencies by embedding cloud computing into heterogeneous networks (HetNets). The interference among remote radio heads (RRHs)…
This dissertation paper presents the main contributions to the design and the implementation of a Cloud-RAN solution. We concretely address the two main challenges of Cloud-RAN systems: real-time processing of radio signals and reduced…
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…
In this paper, we consider an edge cache-assisted millimeter wave cloud radio access network (C-RAN). Each remote radio head (RRH) in the C-RAN has a local cache, which can pre-fetch and store the files requested by the actuators. Multiple…
We study the important and challenging problem of virtualized radio access network (vRAN) design in its most general form. We develop an optimization framework that decides the number and deployment locations of central/cloud units (CUs);…
This work studies distributed compression for the uplink of a cloud radio access network where multiple multi-antenna base stations (BSs) are connected to a central unit, also referred to as cloud decoder, via capacity-constrained backhaul…