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This paper jointly optimizes the precoding matrices and the set of active remote radio heads (RRHs) to minimize the network power consumption (NPC) for a user-centric cloud radio access network (C-RAN), where both the RRHs and users have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Cunhua Pan , Huiling Zhu , Nathan J. Gomes , Jiangzhou Wang

In this paper, we study joint antenna activity detection, channel estimation, and multiuser detection for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with general spatial modulation (GSM). We first establish a double-sparsity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Xiaoyan Kuai , Xiaojun Yuan , Wenjing Yan , Hang Liu , Ying Jun , Zhang

Grant-free random access (GF-RA) is a promising access technique for massive machine-type communications (mMTC) in future wireless networks, particularly in the context of 5G and beyond (6G) systems. Within the context of GF-RA, this study…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Ali Elkeshawy , Haifa Fares , Amor Nafkha

In this paper, we study the stochastic optimization of cloud radio access networks (C-RANs) by joint remote radio head (RRH) activation and beamforming in the downlink. Unlike most previous works that only consider a static optimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Jian Li , Jingxian Wu , Mugen Peng , Ping Zhang

Cloud radio access networks (C-RAN) enable a network platform for beyond the fifth generation of communication networks (B5G), which incorporates the advances in cloud computing technologies to modern radio access networks. Recently, rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Alaa Alameer Ahmad , Yijie Mao , Aydin Sezgin , Bruno Clerckx

We consider unsourced random access (uRA) in a cell-free (CF) user-centric wireless network, where a large number of potential users compete for a random access slot, while only a finite subset is active. The random access users transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Burak Çakmak , Eleni Gkiouzepi , Manfred Opper , Giuseppe Caire

The Internet of Things paradigm heavily relies on a network of a massive number of machine-type devices (MTDs) that monitor various phenomena. Consequently, MTDs are randomly activated at different times whenever a change occurs. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-21 Leatile Marata , Esa Ollila , Hirley Alves

A cloud radio access network (Cloud-RAN) is a network architecture that holds the promise of meeting the explosive growth of mobile data traffic. In this architecture, all the baseband signal processing is shifted to a single baseband unit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Yuanming Shi , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

The performance of grant-free random access (GF-RA) is limited by the number of accessible random access resources (RRs) due to the absence of collision resolution. Compressive sensing (CS)-based RA schemes scale up the RRs at the expense…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Ameha Tsegaye Abebe , Chung G. Kang

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 paper considers the power-efficient resource allocation problem in a cloud radio access network (C-RAN). The C-RAN architecture consists of a set of base-band units (BBUs) which are connected to a set of radio remote heads (RRHs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-22 Nahid Amani , Saeedeh Parsaeefard , Hassan Taheri , Hossein Pedram

Cell-free massive MIMO is one of the key technologies for future wireless communications, in which users are simultaneously and jointly served by all access points (APs). In this paper, we investigate the minimum mean square error (MMSE)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Mangqing Guo , M. Cenk Gursoy

This paper considers a downlink cloud radio access network (C-RAN) in which all the base-stations (BSs) are connected to a central computing cloud via digital backhaul links with finite capacities. Each user is associated with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Binbin Dai , Wei Yu

Compressive Sensing has been utilized in Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) to exploit the sparse nature of the occupation of the primary users. Also, distributed spectrum sensing has been proposed to tackle the wireless channel problems, like…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Mohamed Seif , Tamer Elbatt , Karim G. Seddik

Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) with centralized baseband processing is envisioned as a promising candidate for the next-generation wireless communication network. However, the joint processing gain of C-RAN is fundamentally constrained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-23 Liu Liang , Zhang Rui

This paper considers a low-complexity Gaussian Message Passing Iterative Detection (GMPID) algorithm for massive Multiuser Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) system, in which a base station with $M$ antennas serves $K$ Gaussian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Lei Liu , Chau Yuen , Yong Liang Guan , Ying Li , Yuping Su

The cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is a promising paradigm to meet the stringent requirements of the fifth generation (5G) wireless systems. Meanwhile, wireless traffic prediction is a key enabler for C-RANs to improve both the spectrum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Yue Xu , Feng Yin , Wenjun Xu , Jiaru Lin , Shuguang Cui

Parametric message passing (MP) is a promising technique that provides reliable marginal probability distributions for distributed cooperative positioning (DCP) based on factor graphs (FG), while maintaining minimal computational…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Yue Cao , Shaoshi Yang , Zhiyong Feng

Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO is important for beyond 5G or 6G wireless communication networks. The goal of this paper is to establish successful communication between the cellular base stations and devices, focusing on the problem of joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-08 Yinchuan Li , Yuancheng Zhan , Le Zheng , Xiaodong Wang

This paper investigates the problem of estimating sparse channels in massive MIMO systems. Most wireless channels are sparse with large delay spread, while some channels can be observed having sparse common support (SCS) within a certain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Zhengdao Yuan , Chuanzong Zhang , Zhongyong Wang , Qinghua Guo