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This paper studies the design of a decentralized multiuser multi-antenna (MIMO) system for spectrum sharing over a fixed narrow band, where the coexisting users independently update their transmit covariance matrices for individual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-22 Rui Zhang , John M. Cioffi

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

This paper studies the optimal bit allocation for shape-gain vector quantization of wireless channels in multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink systems based on linear precoding. Our design minimizes the mean…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-30 Muhammad Nazmul Islam , Raviraj Adve , Behrouz Khoshnevis

The downlink of symmetric Cloud Radio Access Networks (C-RANs) with multiple relays and a single receiver is studied. Lower and upper bounds are derived on the capacity. The lower bound is achieved by Marton's coding which facilitates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti , Gerhard Kramer , Shlomo Shamai

Cloud radio-access networks (C-RAN) have been proposed as an enabling technology for keeping up with the requirements of next-generation wireless networks. Most existing works on C-RAN consider the uplink or the downlink separately.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Mahmoud Hasabelnaby , Anas Chaaban

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

We consider cooperative radio access network architectures, especially distributed massive MIMO and Cloud RAN, considering their similarities and differences. We address in particular the major challenge posed to both by the implementation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Alister Burr , Manijeh Bashar , Dick Maryopi

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

The limited fronthaul capacity is known to be one of the main problems in cloud radio access networks (CRANs), especially in the wireless fronthaul links. In this paper, we consider the uplink of a CRAN system, where massive multiple-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Dick Maryopi , Yingjia Huang , Aissa Ikhlef

This paper is interested in maximizing the total throughput of cloud radio access networks (CRANs) in which multiple radio remote heads (RRHs) are connected to a central computing unit known as the cloud. The transmit frame of each RRH…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Mohammed S. Al-Abiad , Ahmed Douik , Sameh Sorour , MD Jahangir Hossain

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

Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) and massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) are two key enabling technologies to meet the diverse and stringent requirements of the 5G use cases. In a C-RAN system with massive MIMO, fronthaul is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-11 Jobin Francis , Gerhard Fettweis

In this work, we study a full-duplex (FD) cloud radio access network (C-RAN) from the aspects of infrastructure sharing and information secrecy, where the central unit utilizes FD remote radio units (RU)s belonging to the same operator,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Omid Taghizadeh , Tianyu Yang , Hiroki Iimori , Giuseppe Abreu , Ali Cagatay Cirik , Rudolf Mathar

Block diagonalization is a linear precoding technique for the multiple antenna broadcast (downlink) channel that involves transmission of multiple data streams to each receiver such that no multi-user interference is experienced at any of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Niranjay Ravindran , Nihar Jindal

In this paper, the downlink of a typical massive MIMO system is studied when each base station is composed of three antenna arrays with directional antenna elements serving 120 degrees of the two-dimensional space. A lower bound for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Shahram Shahsavari , Parisa Hassanzadeh , Alexei Ashikhmin , Elza Erkip

We consider the uplink of a cloud radio access network (C-RAN), where massive MIMO remote radio heads (RRHs) serve as relays between users and a centralized baseband unit (BBU). Although employing massive MIMO at RRHs can improve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-01 An Liu , Xihan Chen , Wei Yu , Vincent Lau , Min-Jian Zhao

This work studies the optimization of rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) transmission technique for a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) downlink system. Main idea of RSMA is to split the message for each user equipment (UE) to private…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-05 Daesung Yu , Junbeom Kim , Seok-Hwan Park

The uplink of a cloud radio access network architecture is studied in which decoding at the cloud takes place via network function virtualization on commercial off-the-shelf servers. In order to mitigate the impact of straggling decoders in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Malihe Aliasgari , Jörg Kliewer , Osvaldo Simeone

We study the problem of uplink compression for cell-free multi-input multi-output networks with limited fronthaul capacity. In compress-forward mode, remote radio heads (RRHs) compress the received signal and forward it to a central unit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Zehua Li , Jingjie Wei , Raviraj Adve

We investigate the MIMO broadcast channel in the high SNR regime when linear filtering is applied instead of dirty paper coding. Using a user-wise rate duality where the streams of every single user are not treated as self-interference as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-07-18 Raphael Hunger , Michael Joham