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Hybrid analog/digital precoding architectures can address the trade-off between achievable spectral efficiency and power consumption in large-scale MIMO systems. This makes it a promising candidate for millimeter wave systems, which require…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Sungwoo Park , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Robert W. Heath

In this work we propose a fronthaul compression scheme for distributed MIMO systems with multi-antenna receivers, in which, prior to signal quantisation, dimension reduction is performed at each receiver by matched filtering the received…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Fred Wiffen , Mohammud Z. Bocus , Angela Doufexi , Woon Hau Chin

The limited fronthaul capacity imposes a challenge on the uplink of centralized radio access network (C-RAN). We propose to boost the fronthaul capacity of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) aided C-RAN by globally optimizing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Jiankang Zhang , Sheng Chen , Xinying Guo , Jia Shi , Lajos Hanzo

Centralized Radio Access Network (C-RAN) architecture is the only viable solution to handle the complex interference scenario generated by massive antennas and small cells deployment as required by next generation (5G) mobile networks. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Syed Hassan Raza Naqvi , Andrea Matera , Lorenzo Combi , Umberto Spagnolini

Hybrid analog and digital (HAD) beamforming has been recently receiving considerable deserved attention for a practical implementation on the large-scale antenna systems. As compared to full digital beamforming, partial-connected HAD…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Mohammed A. Almagboul , Feng Shu , Yaolu Qin , Xiaobo Zhou , Jin Wang , Yuwen Qian , Kingsley Jun Zou

We investigate a fronthaul-limited cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system and propose a hybrid centralized-distributed precoding strategy that dynamically adapts to varying fronthaul and spectral efficiency (SE)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Ardavan Rahimian , Anvar Tukmanov , David Townend , Michail Matthaiou , Simon L. Cotton

Microwave linear analog computing (MiLAC) has recently emerged as a promising architecture for analog-domain beamforming. In particular, a hybrid digital-MiLAC architecture was proposed and was shown to achieve fully-digital beamforming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Yiyang Peng , Zheyu Wu , Bruno Clerckx

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a key technology for next-generation wireless systems. The integration of cell-free massive MIMO within the open radio access network (O-RAN) architecture addresses the growing need…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Mohammad Hossein Shokouhi , Vincent W. S. Wong

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

Antenna arrays will be an important ingredient in millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular systems. A natural application of antenna arrays is simultaneous transmission to multiple users. Unfortunately, the hardware constraints in mmWave systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Geert Leus , Robert W. Heath

In cloud radio access networks (C-RANs), the baseband units and radio units of base stations are separated, which requires high-capacity fronthaul links connecting both parts. In this paper, we consider the delay-aware fronthaul allocation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Wei Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau , Mugen Peng

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Wanming Hao , Ming Zeng , Gangcan Sun , Pei Xiao

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

A novel dynamic hybrid beamforming architecture is proposed to achieve the spatial multiplexing-power consumption tradeoff for near-field multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks, where each radio frequency (RF) chain is connected to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zheng Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhaolin Wang , Jian Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek

This paper studies energy-efficient hybrid beamforming architectures and its algorithm design in millimeter-wave communication systems, aiming to address the challenges faced by existing hybrid beamforming due to low hardware flexibility…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Hongpu Zhang , Yulu Guo , Liuxun Xue , Xingchen Liu , Shu Sun , Ruifeng Gao , Xianghao Yu , Meixia Tao

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

To enable user diversity and multiplexing gains, a fully digital precoding multiple input multiple output (MIMO) architecture is typically applied. However, a large number of radio frequency (RF) chains make the system unrealistic to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-02 Tongyang Xu , Christos Masouros , Izzat Darwazeh

The cloud radio access network (C-RAN) provides high spectral and energy efficiency performances, low expenditures and intelligent centralized system structures to operators, which has attracted intense interests in both academia and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-30 Jian Li , Mugen Peng , Aolin Cheng , Yuling Yu , Chonggang Wang

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 work investigates the joint design of fronthaul compression and precoding for the downlink of Cloud Radio Access Networks (C-RANs). In a C-RAN, a central unit (CU) performs the baseband processing for a cluster of radio units (RUs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jinkyu Kang , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang , Shlomo Shamai