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Virtualizing the Radio-Access Network (RAN) is increasingly viewed as an enabler of affordable 5G expansion and a stepping-stone toward AI-native 6G. Most discussions, however, still approach spectrum policy, cloud engineering and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ryan Barker

The transformation of 5G networks into software-defined, agile, intelligent and programmable architectures necessitates a paradigm shift in deployment strategies. To deliver superior performance and surpass traditional systems, public and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Amogh PC , Nagamuthu Vignesh , Pei Yiyang , Neelakantam Venkatarayalu , Pedro Henrique Amorim Rezende , Shyam Babu Mahato , Sumei Sun

The next-generation wireless networks are required to satisfy a variety of services and criteria concurrently. To address upcoming strict criteria, a new open radio access network (O-RAN) with distinguishing features such as flexible…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-03 Fatemeh Lotfi , Omid Semiari , Fatemeh Afghah

Fog radio access networks (F-RANs) are seen as potential architectures to support services of internet of things by leveraging edge caching and edge computing. However, current works studying resource management in F-RANs mainly consider a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Yaohua Sun , Mugen Peng , Shiwen Mao

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) implemented in virtualized cloud radio access networks (V-CRAN) has emerged as a promising architecture to enhance spectral efficiency (SE), network flexibility, and energy efficiency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Derya Nurcan-Atceken , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Aysegul Altin-Kayhan , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar , Bulent Tavli

Upcoming cellular networks aim to improve the efficiency and flexibility of mobile networks by incorporating various technologies, such as Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and Network Slicing (NS).…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Sepehr Ganji , Shirin Behnaminia , Ali Ahangarpour , Erfan Mazaheri , Sara Baradaran , Zeinab Zali , Mohammad Reza Heidarpour , Ali Rakhshan , Mahsa Faraji Shoyari

Emerging AI/ML techniques have been showing great potential in automating network control in open radio access networks (Open RAN). However, existing approaches heavily rely on blackbox policies parameterized by deep neural networks, which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Ming Zhao , Yuru Zhang , Qiang Liu , Ahan Kak , Nakjung Choi

We present ProtO-RU, the first open source, software-defined O-RAN Split-7.2 Radio Unit built using SDRs and commodity CPUs. Unlike proprietary hardware-based commercial O-RUs, ProtO-RU is built on the open-source srsRAN software stack, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Zhiyu Zhou , Xin Zhe Khooi , Satis Kumar Permal , Mun Choon Chan

Innovation and standardization in 5G have brought advancements to every facet of the cellular architecture. This ranges from the introduction of new frequency bands and signaling technologies for the radio access network (RAN), to a core…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Michele Polese , Mischa Dohler , Falko Dressler , Melike Erol-Kantarci , Rittwik Jana , Raymond Knopp , Tommaso Melodia

This paper considers a multicloud radio access network (M-CRAN), wherein each cloud serves a cluster of base-stations (BS's) which are connected to the clouds through high capacity digital links. The network comprises several remote users,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Hayssam Dahrouj , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The Radio Access Network (RAN) is evolving into a programmable and disaggregated infrastructure that increasingly relies on AI-native algorithms for optimization and closed-loop control. However, current RAN intelligence is still largely…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ioannis Panitsas , Leandros Tassiulas

In recent years, a large number of smart devices will be connected in Internet of Things (IoT) using an ad hoc network, which needs more frequency spectra. The cognitive radio (CR) technology can improve spectrum utilization in an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Xiaoxiong Zhong , Li Li , Yuanping Zhang , Bin Zhang , Weizhe Zhang , Tingting Yang

Cellular networks are one of the corner stones of our information-driven society. However, existing cellular systems have been seriously challenged by the explosion of mobile data traffic, the emergence of machine-type communications and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Jingchu Liu , Tao Zhao , Sheng Zhou , Yu Cheng , Zhisheng Niu

We consider computation offloading for Internet-of-things (IoT) applications in multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) cloud-radio-access-network (C-RAN). Due to the limited battery life and computational capability in the IoT devices…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Chandan Pradhan , Ang Li , Changyang She , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

The transition to disaggregated and interoperable Open Radio Access Network (RAN) architectures and the introduction of RAN Intelligent Controllers (RICs) in O-RAN creates new resource optimization opportunities and fine-grained tuning and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Ravis Shirkhani , Stefano Maxenti , Leonardo Bonati , Niloofar Mohamadi , Maxime Elkael , Umair Hashmi , Jeebak Mitra , Michele Polese , Tommaso Melodia , Salvatore D'Oro

The next-generation radio access network (RAN), known as Open RAN, is poised to feature an AI-native interface for wireless cellular networks, including emerging satellite-terrestrial systems, making deep learning integral to its operation.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Siya Chen , Chee Wei Tan , Xiangping Zhai , H. Vincent Poor

Offloading computation-intensive tasks to edge clouds has become an efficient way to support resource constraint edge devices. However, task offloading delay is an issue largely due to the networks with limited capacities between edge…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Anselme Ndikumana , Kim Khoa Nguyen , Mohamed Cheriet

One of the most promising techniques for network-wide interference management necessitates a redesign of the network architecture known as cloud radio access network (CRAN). The cloud is responsible for coordinating multiple Remote Radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Mohammed S. Al-Abiad , Ahmed Douik , Sameh Sorour , Md Jahangir Hossain

To mitigate the severe inter-tier interference and enhance limited cooperative gains resulting from the constrained and non-ideal transmissions between adjacent base stations in heterogeneous networks (HetNets), heterogeneous cloud radio…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-10-14 Mugen Peng , Yuan Li , Jiamo Jiang , Jian Li , Chonggang Wang

Fog-aided network architectures for 5G systems encompass wireless edge nodes, referred to as remote radio systems (RRSs), as well as remote cloud center (RCC) processors, which are connected to the RRSs via a fronthaul access network. RRSs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Jinkyu Kang , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang , Shlomo Shamai