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Resource allocation in the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) multiple access channel (MAC) is a fundamental problem in multiuser communications, yet it is increasingly treated as non-convex and computationally intractable. This has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Muhammad Umer , Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin , Ahsan Bilal , John M. Cioffi

In this paper, we investigate the network power minimization problem for the multicast cloud radio access network (Cloud-RAN) with imperfect channel state information (CSI). The key observation is that network power minimization can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-23 Yuanming Shi , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

In the Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) architecture, the baseband signals from multiple remote radio heads are processed in a centralized baseband unit (BBU) pool. This architecture allows network operators to adapt the BBU's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Anders E. Kalør , Mauricio I. Agurto , Nuno K. Pratas , Jimmy J. Nielsen , Petar Popovski

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

This paper considers a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) where spatially distributed remote radio heads (RRHs) communicate with a full-duplex user. In order to reflect a realistic scenario, the uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) RRHs are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Mohammadali Mohammadi , Himal A. Suraweera , Chintha Tellambura

This paper proposes two low-complexity iterative algorithms to compute the capacity of a single-user multiple-input multiple-output channel with per-antenna power constraint. The first method results from manipulating the optimality…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Thuy M. Pham , Ronan Farrell , Le-Nam Tran

This paper studies the resource allocation algorithm design for multiuser coordinated multipoint (CoMP) networks with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT). In particular, remote radio heads (RRHs) are connected to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-03 Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

There is a widely held belief that future Radio Access Network (RAN) architectures will be characterized by increased levels of virtualization, whereby base station functionalities, traditionally residing at a single location, will be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Sandra Lagén , Xavier Gelabert , Andreas Hansson , Manuel Requena , Lorenza Giupponi

This work studies the robust design of downlink precoding for cloud radio access network (C-RAN) in the presence of asynchronism among remote radio heads (RRHs). Specifically, a C-RAN downlink system is considered in which non-ideal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Shlomo Shamai

In this paper, we consider a green cloud radio access network (C-RAN) with simultaneous wireless and power transfer ability. In order to reduce the energy consumed for updating the chanel state information (CSI), energy users are divided…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Xu Li , Zhao Chen , Aurobinda Laha , Ziru Chen , Yu Cheng , Lin X. Cai

In this letter, we consider optimal hybrid beamforming design to minimize the transmission power under individual signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) constraints in a multiuser massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-27 Guangda Zang , Ying Cui , Hei Victor Cheng , Feng Yang , Lianghui Ding , Hui Liu

The cloud radio access network (Cloud-RAN) has recently been proposed as one cost-effective and energy-efficient technique for 5G wireless networks. By moving the signal processing functionality to a single baseband unit (BBU) pool,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Yuanming Shi , Jinkun Cheng , Jun Zhang , Bo Bai , Wei Chen , Khaled B. Letaief

The performance of cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is limited by the finite capacities of the backhaul links connecting the centralized processor (CP) with the base-stations (BSs), especially when the backhaul is implemented in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Binbin Dai , Ya-Feng Liu , Wei Yu

In this paper, we propose a reformulation for the Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) problem into an exact and continuous model through using the $\ell_2$-box technique to recast the binary constraints into a box with an $\ell_2$ sphere…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-30 Fan Zhang , Qiong Wu , Hao Wang , Yuanming Shi

Group sparse beamforming is a general framework to minimize the network power consumption for cloud radio access networks (Cloud-RANs), which, however, suffers high computational complexity. In particular, a complex optimization problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Yuanming Shi , Jun Zhang , Wei Chen , Khaled B. Letaief

With the rapid growth of mobile data traffic, the shortage of radio spectrum resource has become increasingly prominent. Millimeter wave (mmWave) small cells can be densely deployed in macro cells to improve network capacity and spectrum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Ziqi Guo , Yong Niu , Shiwen Mao , Ruisi He , Ning Wang , Zhangdui Zhong , Bo Ai

Limited capacity of fronthaul links in a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system can cause quantization errors at a central processing unit (CPU) during data transmission, complicating the centralized rate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-29 Minje Kim , In-soo Kim , Junil Choi

A joint resource allocation (RA), user association (UA), and power control (PC) problem is addressed for proportional fairness maximization in a cooperative multiuser downlink small cell network with limited backhaul capacity, based on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Jonggyu Jang , Hyun Jong Yang , Hyekyung Jwa

In this paper we study energy efficient joint power allocation and beamforming for coordinated multicell multiuser downlink systems. The considered optimization problem is in a non-convex fractional form and hard to tackle. We propose to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-09 He Shiwen , Huang Yongming , Jin Shi , Yang Luxi

To overcome the limited on-board battery issue of nominal airborne base stations (ABSs), we are exploring the use of robotic airborne base station (RABS) with energy neutral grasping end-effectors that are able to autonomously perch at tall…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Yuan Liao , Vasilis Friderikos