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Massive MIMO and C-RAN are two promising techniques for implementing future wireless communication systems, where a large number of antennas are deployed either being co-located at the base station (BS) or totally distributed at separate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Liang Liu , Rui Zhang

Uplink and downlink cloud radio access networks are modeled as two-hop K-user L-relay networks, whereby small base-stations act as relays for end-to-end communications and are connected to a central processor via orthogonal fronthaul links…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Shouvik Ganguly , Seung-Eun Hong , Young-Han Kim

Recently, several advanced multi-antenna radio communications technologies have emerged to meet the increased capacity demands in wireless multi-user networks. Despite their great potential, the extent of these techniques' practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-16 Konstantinos Ntougias , Dimitrios Ntaikos , Constantinos B. Papadias

Future autonomous systems require wireless connectivity able to support extremely stringent requirements on both latency and reliability. In this paper, we leverage recent developments in the field of finite-blocklength information theory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Johan Östman , Giuseppe Durisi , Erik G. Ström , Jingya Li , Henrik Sahlin , Gianluigi Liva

One of the first widespread uses of multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) is in 5G networks, where each base station has an advanced antenna system (AAS) that is connected to the baseband unit (BBU) with a capacity-constrained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Emil Björnson , Joakim Jaldén

The use of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based communication in millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies to provide on-demand radio access is a promising approach to improve capacity and coverage in beyond-5G (B5G) systems. There are several…

The use of a large excess of service antennas brings a variety of performance benefits to distributed MIMO C-RAN, but the corresponding high fronthaul data loads can be problematic in practical systems with limited fronthaul capacity. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Fred Wiffen , Woon Hau Chin , Angela Doufexi

This paper optimizes the fronthaul bit allocation in massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems operating with limited-capacity fronthaul links. We consider an advanced antenna system (AAS) controlled by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Emil Bjornson , Joakim Jalden

We demonstrate a high capacity IF-over-fiber mobile fronthaul solution for multi-user massive MIMO 5G RAN. Using this scheme, a record aggregated radio bandwidth of 25.6 GHz was transmitted on a single optical wavelength over 40 km without…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-25 Son T. Le , Stefan Wesemann , Roman Dischler , Sivarama Venkatesan

By allowing a large number of links to be simultaneously transmitted, directional antenna arrays with beamforming have been envisioned as a promising candidate to reach unprecedented levels of spatial isolation. To achieve the high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Yilin Li , Jian Luo , Richard A. Stirling-Gallacher , Giuseppe Caire

It is known that data rates in standard cellular networks are limited due to inter-cell interference. An effective solution of this problem is to use the multi-cell cooperation idea. In Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN), which is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Fehmi Emre Kadan , Ali Özgür Yılmaz

In the Fifth generation (5G) wireless communication systems, a majority of the traffic demands is contributed by various multimedia applications. To support the future 5G multimedia communication systems, the massive multiple-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Xiaohu Ge , Haichao Wang , Ran Zi , Qiang Li , Qiang Ni

To meet the future demand for huge traffic volume of wireless data service, the research on the fifth generation (5G) mobile communication systems has been undertaken in recent years. It is expected that the spectral and energy efficiencies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Dongming Wang , Yu Zhang , Hao Wei , Xiaohu You , Xiqi Gao , Jiangzhou Wang

Only radio access networks can provide connectivity across multiple antenna sites to achieve the great leap forward in capacity targeted by 5G. Optical fronthaul remains a sticking point in that connectivity, and we make the case for analog…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Xun Guan , Wei Shi , Jia Liu , Peng Tan , Jim Slevinsky , Leslie A. Rusch

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) antenna systems and inter-band carrier aggregation (CA)-enabled multi-band communication are two key technologies to achieve very high data rates in beyond fifth generation (B5G) wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Nuwan Balasuriya , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

Despite the extensive research on massive MIMO systems for 5G telecommunications and beyond, the reality is that many deployed base stations are equipped with a limited number of antennas rather than supporting massive MIMO configurations.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-04 Youjin Kim , Jonggyu Jang , Hyun Jong Yang

Cell-Free (CF) Massive MIMO (mMIMO) is a technology which can potentially augment not only the deployment of 5G, but also the deployment of beyond 5G (B5G) wireless networks. However, the cost for rolling out such systems may be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Ioannis Chiotis , Aris L. Moustakas

Employing massively distributed antennas brings radio access points (RAPs) closer to users, thus enables aggressive spectrum reuse that can bridge gaps between the scarce spectrum resource and extremely high connection densities in future…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-19 Lisu Yu , Jingxian Wu , Andong Zhou , Erik G. Larsson , Pingzhi Fan

We consider a cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system and investigate the system performance for the case when the quantized version of the estimated channel and the quantized received signal are available at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Manijeh Bashar , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Alister G. Burr , Hien Quoc Ngo , Merouane Debbah

The initial 6G networks will likely operate in the upper mid-band (7-24 GHz), which has decent propagation conditions but underwhelming new spectrum availability. In this paper, we explore whether we can anyway reach the ambitious 6G…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Emil Björnson , Ferdi Kara , Nikolaos Kolomvakis , Alva Kosasih , Parisa Ramezani , Murat Babek Salman