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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

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

Caching contents at the network edge is an efficient mean for offloading traffic, reducing latency and improving users' quality-of-experience. In this letter, we focus on aspects of storage-bandwidth tradeoffs in which small cell base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Syed Tamoor-ul-Hassan , Mehdi Bennis , Pedro H. J. Nardelli , Matti Latva-Aho

In this paper, a Cognitive Radio Network (CRN) based on artificial intelligence is proposed to distribute the limited radio spectrum resources more efficiently. The CRN framework can analyze the time-sensitive signal data close to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-29 Jingyang Lu , Lun Li , Genshe Chen , Dan Shen , Khanh Pham , Erik Blasch

Industry 4.0 applications foster new business opportunities but they also pose new and challenging requirements, such as low latency communications and highly reliable systems. They enable to exploit novel wireless technologies (5G), but it…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Goiuri Peralta , Pablo Garrido , Josu Bilbao , Ramón Agüero , Pedro M. Crespo

As an extension of cloud computing, fog computing at the edge of networks provides low latency, location awareness, and real-time interactions. At the same time, millimeter wave (mmWave) communications are able to provide directional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Yong Niu , Yu Liu , Yong Li , Zhangdui Zhong , Bo Ai , Pan Hui

In this paper, cooperative edge caching problem is studied in fog radio access networks (F-RANs). Given the non-deterministic polynomial hard (NP-hard) property of the problem, a dueling deep Q network (Dueling DQN) based caching update…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-24 Yanxiang Jiang , Min Zhang , Fu-Chun Zheng , Yan Chen , Mehdi Bennis , Xiaohu You

Device-to-device (D2D) communication is a promising approach to optimize the utilization of air interface resources in 5G networks, since it allows decentralized opportunistic short-range communication. For D2D to be useful, mobile nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Derya Malak , Mazin Al-Shalash , Jeffrey G. Andrews

We study the throughput and delay characteristics of wireless caching networks, where users are mainly interested in retrieving content stored in the network, rather than in maintaining source-destination communication. Nodes are assumed to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Milad Mahdian , Edmund Yeh

Fog devices are beginning to play a key role in relaying data and services within the Internet-of-Things (IoT) ecosystem. These relays may be static or mobile, with the latter offering a new degree of freedom for performance improvement via…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Babatunji Omoniwa , Riaz Hussain , Muhammad Adil , Atif Shakeel , Ahmed Kamal Tahir , Qadeer Ul Hasan , Shahzad A. Malik

The increasing complexity of fog computing environments calls for efficient resource optimization techniques. In this paper, we propose and evaluate three distributed designs of a genetic algorithm (GA) for resource optimization in fog…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Carlos Guerrero , Isaac Lera , Carlos Juiz

We study the problem of caching optimization in heterogeneous networks with mutual interference and per-file rate constraints from an energy efficiency perspective. A setup is considered in which two cache-enabled transmitter nodes and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Estefanía Recayte , Giuseppe Cocco

Managing the explosion of data from the edge to the cloud requires intelligent supervision such as fog node deployments, which is an essential task to assess network operability. To ensure network operability, the deployment process must be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Abdenacer Naouri , Nabil Abdelkader Nouri , Sahraoui Dhelim , Amar Khelloufi , Abdelkarim Ben Sada , Huansheng Ning

In this paper, the fundamental problem of distribution and proactive caching of computing tasks in fog networks is studied under latency and reliability constraints. In the proposed scenario, computing can be executed either locally at the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Mohammed S. Elbamby , Mehdi Bennis , Walid Saad

Fog computing emerged as a crucial platform for the deployment of IoT applications. The complexity of such applications requires methods that handle the resource diversity and network structure of Fog devices while maximizing the service…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Zahra Najafabadi Samani , Nishant Saurabh , Radu Prodan

We consider caching in cellular networks in which each base station is equipped with a cache that can store a limited number of files. The popularity of the files is known and the goal is to place files in the caches such that the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Jasper Goseling , Berksan Serbetci

Mobile networks are experiencing tremendous increase in data volume and user density. An efficient technique to alleviate this issue is to bring the data closer to the users by exploiting the caches of edge network nodes, such as fixed or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Nikolaos Nomikos , Spyros Zoupanos , Themistoklis Charalambous , Ioannis Krikidis , Athina Petropulu

Centralized coded caching of popular contents is studied for users with heterogeneous distortion requirements, corresponding to diverse processing and display capabilities of mobile devices. Users' distortion requirements are assumed to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Qianqian Yang , Deniz Gunduz

This paper explores the application of uplink fronthaul compression techniques within Open RAN (O-RAN) to mitigate fronthaul load in decentralized distributed MIMO (DD-MIMO) systems. With the ever-increasing demand for high data rates and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Mostafa Rahmani , Junbo Zhao , Vida Ranjbar , Ahmed Al-Tahmeesschi , Hamed Ahmadi , Sofie Pollin , Alister G. Burr

The massive scale of future wireless networks will create computational bottlenecks in performance optimization. In this paper, we study the problem of connecting mobile traffic to Cloud RAN (C-RAN) stations. To balance station load, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Georgios Paschos , Nikolaos Liakopoulos , Merouane Debbah , Tong Wen