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Next generation cellular networks will have to leverage large cell densifications to accomplish the ambitious goals for aggregate multi-user sum rates, for which CRAN architecture is a favored network design. This shifts the attention back…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Sahar Imtiaz , Hadi Ghauch , Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman , George Koudouridis , James Gross

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

Distributed scheduling is essential for open radio access network (O-RAN) employing advanced physical-layer techniques such as multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO), carrier aggregation (CA), and joint transmission (JT). This work investigates the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Tenghao Cai , Lei Li , Tsung-Hui Chang

In this paper, cooperative caching is investigated in fog radio access networks (F-RAN). To maximize the offloaded traffic, cooperative caching optimization problem is formulated. By analyzing the relationship between clustering and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Yanxiang Jiang , Xiaoting Cui , Mehdi Bennis , Fu-Chun Zheng

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

Current Distributed Radio Access Networks~(D-RANs), which are characterized by a static configuration and deployment of Base Stations~(BSs), have exposed their limitations in handling the temporal and geographical fluctuations of capacity…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Abolfazl Hajisami , Tuyen X. Tran , Dario Pompili

We consider the uplink of a cloud radio access network (C-RAN), where massive MIMO remote radio heads (RRHs) serve as relays between users and a centralized baseband unit (BBU). Although employing massive MIMO at RRHs can improve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-01 An Liu , Xihan Chen , Wei Yu , Vincent Lau , Min-Jian Zhao

This paper considers a joint transmission scheme (JT) developed for cloud radio access networks (C-RANs). This proposed scheme features cooperative sets of remote radio heads (RRH) defined in a disk around each user location. The nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Charles Wiame , Luc Vandendorpe , Claude Oestges

In modern implementations of Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN), the fronthaul transport network will often be packet-based and it will have a multi-hop architecture built with general-purpose switches using network function virtualization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Shlomo Shamai

Recently, implementing Radio Access Network (RAN) functionalities on cloud-based computing platform has become an emerging solution that leverages the many advantages of cloud infrastructure, such as shared computing resources and storage…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Tuyen X. Tran , Dario Pompili

This paper develops stream combining techniques for rate-splitting (RS) multiple-antenna systems with multiple users to enhance the common rate. We propose linear combining techniques based on the Min-Max, the maximum ratio and the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-10 A. Flores , R. C. de Lamare , B. Clerckx

The heterogeneous cloud radio access network (H-CRAN) is a promising paradigm which incorporates the cloud computing into heterogeneous networks (HetNets), thereby taking full advantage of cloud radio access networks (C-RANs) and HetNets.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Mugen Peng , Yuling Yu , Hongyu Xiang , H. Vincent Poor

Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) are transforming telecommunications by shifting from centralized to distributed architectures, promoting flexibility, interoperability, and innovation through open interfaces and multi-vendor environments.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Zaineh Abughazzah , Emna Baccour , Ahmed Refaey , Amr Mohamed , Mounir Hamdi

The limited fronthaul capacity is known to be one of the main problems in cloud radio access networks (CRANs), especially in the wireless fronthaul links. In this paper, we consider the uplink of a CRAN system, where massive multiple-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Dick Maryopi , Yingjia Huang , Aissa Ikhlef

In cloud radio access networks (C-RANs), a substantial amount of data must be exchanged in both backhaul and fronthaul links, which causes high power consumption and poor quality of service (QoS) experience for real-time services. To solve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Zhongyuan Zhao , Mugen Peng , Zhiguo Ding , Wenbo Wang , H. Vincent Poor

Dynamic subarray achieves a compromise between sum rate and hardware complexity for millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems in which antenna elements are dynamically partitioned to radio frequency (RF)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-19 Jing Jiang , Yue Yuan , Li Zhen

This paper addresses the slicing of Radio Access Network (RAN) resources by multiple tenants, e.g., virtual wireless operators and service providers. We consider a criterion for dynamic resource allocation amongst tenants, based on a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-01 P. Caballero , A. Banchs , G. de Veciana , X. Costa-Perez

Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is proposed recently to reduce network cost, enable cooperative communications, and increase system flexibility through centralized baseband processing. By pooling multiple virtual base stations (VBSs) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Jingchu Liu , Sheng Zhou , Jie Gong , Zhisheng Niu , Shugong Xu

Reconfigurable distributed antennas and reflecting surface (RDARS) has emerged as a promising architecture for communication and sensing performance enhancement. In particular, the new selection gain can be achieved by leveraging the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Chengwang Ji , Haiquan Lu , Qiaoyan Peng , Jintao Wang , Shaodan Ma

Cognitive Radio Networks allow unlicensed users to opportunistically access the licensed spectrum without causing disruptive interference to the primary users (PUs). One of the main challenges in CRNs is the ability to detect PU…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-15 Shuang Li , Zizhan Zheng , Eylem Ekici , Ness Shroff