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Modulation compression is a technique considered in the recent Open-RAN (O-RAN) framework, which has continued the 3GPP effort towards the definition of new virtualized and multi-vendor RAN architectures. Basically, fronthaul compression is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Sandra Lagen , Lorenza Giupponi , Andreas Hansson , Xavier Gelabert

Today's mobile data traffic is dominated by content-oriented traffic. Caching popular contents at the network edge can alleviate network congestion and reduce content delivery latency. This paper provides a comprehensive and unified study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Meixia Tao , Deniz Gündüz , Fan Xu , Joan S. Pujol Roig

The implementation of uplink HARQ in a Cloud- Radio Access Network RAN (C-RAN) architecture is constrained by the two-way latency on the fronthaul links connecting the Remote Radio Heads (RRHs) with the Baseband Units (BBUs) that perform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Shahrouz Khalili , Osvaldo Simeone

Network virtualization and cloudification in Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) enable joint orchestration of the processing and fronthaul resources, which are essential for realizing the energy-saving potential of cell-free massive MIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

The baseband-up centralization architecture of radio access networks (C-RAN) has recently been proposed to support efficient cooperative communications and reduce deployment and operational costs. However, the massive fronthaul bandwidth…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-28 Jingchu Liu , Sheng Zhou , Jie Gong , Zhisheng Niu , Shugong Xu

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

This work studies multigroup multicasting transmission in cloud radio access networks (C-RANs) with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer, where densely packed remote radio heads (RRHs) cooperatively provide information and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Fangqing Tan , Peiran Wu , Yik-Chung Wu , Minghua Xia

In this paper, we investigate the joint beamforming and power splitting design problem in a base station (BS) cluster-based cloud radio access network (C-RAN) with multicast fronthaul, where users are jointly served by BSs within each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Wanming Hao , Gangcan Sun , Ming Zeng , Zhengyu Zhu , Bin Jiang , Shouyi Yang

We study the problem of maximizing privacy of quantized sensor measurements by adding random variables. In particular, we consider the setting where information about the state of a process is obtained using noisy sensor measurements. This…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Carlos Murguia , Iman Shames , Farhad Farokhi , Dragan Nesic

This letter aims to provide sensing capabilities for a potential eavesdropper, while simultaneously enabling the secure communications with the legitimate users in a cell-free multipleinput multiple-output system with limited fronthaul…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-13 Seongjun Kim , Seongah Jeong

The future wireless network, such as Centralized Radio Access Network (C-RAN), will need to deliver data rate about 100 to 1000 times the current 4G technology. For C-RAN based network architecture, there is a pressing need for tremendous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-19 Hongbo Si , Boon Loong Ng , Md. Saifur Rahman , Jianzhong , Zhang

Limited fronthaul capacity is a practical bottleneck in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) 5G architectures, where a base station (BS) consists of an advanced antenna system (AAS) connected to a baseband unit (BBU). Conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Emil Bjornson , Joakim Jalden

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has recently been recognized as a promising scheme for a fusion center to achieve fast distributed data aggregation in wireless networks via exploiting the superposition property of multiple-access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-23 Lukuan Xing , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi

Network-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications is a common solution to achieve high-rate image transmission. The broadcast nature of these wireless networks makes this communication vulnerable to eavesdropping. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Behrooz Khadem , Salar Mohebalizadeh

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

Cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is considered, where distributed access points (APs) multiply the received signal by the conjugate of the estimated channel, and send back a quantized version of this weighted signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Manijeh Bashar , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Alister G. Burr , Hien Quoc Ngo , Merouane Debbah , Pei Xiao

Deep Neural Networks reached state-of-the-art performance across numerous domains, but this progress has come at the cost of increasingly large and over-parameterized models, posing serious challenges for deployment on resource-constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Dario Malchiodi , Mattia Ferraretto , Marco Frasca

Fronthaul quantization causes a significant distortion in cell-free massive MIMO networks. Due to the limited capacity of fronthaul links, information exchange among access points (APs) must be quantized significantly. Furthermore, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Vida Ranjbar , Robbert Beerten , Marc Moonen , Sofie Pollin

The heterogeneous cloud radio access network (Cloud-RAN) provides a revolutionary way to densify radio access networks. It enables centralized coordination and signal processing for efficient interference management and flexible network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Yuanming Shi , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief , Bo Bai , Wei Chen

Federated Learning (FL) with quantization and deliberately added noise over wireless networks is a promising approach to preserve user differential privacy (DP) while reducing wireless resources. Specifically, an FL process can be fused…