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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

We propose a power-and rate-adaptation scheme for cloud radio access networks (C-RANs), where each radio remote head (RRH) is connected to the baseband unit (BBU) pool through optical links. The RRHs jointly support the users by efficiently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Hong Ren , Nan Liu , Cunhua Pan , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Xiaohu You , Lajos Hanzo

Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is a promising technology for fifth-generation (5G) cellular systems. However the burden imposed by the huge amount of data to be collected (in the uplink) from the radio remote heads (RRHs) and processed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Alessandro Brighente , Stefano Tomasin

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

Cloud-radio access networks (C-RAN) help overcoming the scarcity of radio resources by enabling dense deployment of base-stations (BSs), and connecting them to a central-processor (CP). This paper considers the downlink of a C-RAN, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Alaa Alameer Ahmad , Hayssam Dahrouj , Anas Chaaban , Aydin Sezgin , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Benefited from the advances of deep learning (DL) techniques, deep joint source-channel coding (JSCC) has shown its great potential to improve the performance of wireless transmission. However, most of the existing works focus on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Kaiyi Chi , Qianqian Yang , Zhaohui Yang , Yiping Duan , Zhaoyang Zhang

In this paper, we consider an uplink heterogeneous cloud radio access network (H-CRAN), where a macro base station (BS) coexists with many remote radio heads (RRHs). For cost-savings, only the BS is connected to the baseband unit (BBU) pool…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Wenchao Xia , Jun Zhang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Shi Jin , Hongbo Zhu

The performance of cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is constrained by the limited fronthaul link capacity under future heavy data traffic. To tackle this problem, extensive efforts have been devoted to design efficient signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Liu Liang , Suzhi Bi , Rui Zhang

In a heterogeneous network (HetNet) with a large number of low power base stations (BSs), proper user-BS association and power control is crucial to achieving desirable system performance. In this paper, we systematically study the joint BS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ruoyu Sun , Mingyi Hong , Zhi-Quan Luo

Power saving is a main pillar in the operation of wireless communication systems. In this paper, we investigate cloud radio access network (C-RAN) capability to reduce power consumption based on the user equipment (UE) requirement. Aiming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yuchao Chang , Hongli Wang , Wen Chen , Yonghui Li , Naofal Al-Dhahir

We study downlink of multiantenna cloud radio access networks (C-RANs) with finite-capacity fronthaul links. The aim is to propose joint designs of beamforming and remote radio head (RRH)-user association, subject to constraints on users'…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Kien-Giang Nguyen , Quang-Doanh Vu , Markku Juntti , Le-Nam Tran

The cloud-radio access network (CRAN) is expected to be the core network architecture for next generation mobile radio systems. In this paper, we consider the downlink of a CRAN formed of one central processor (the cloud) and several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-28 Oussama Dhifallah , Hayssam Dahrouj , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper considers a downlink cloud radio access network (C-RAN) in which all the base-stations (BSs) are connected to a central computing cloud via digital backhaul links with finite capacities. Each user is associated with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Binbin Dai , Wei Yu

With the dense deployment of the remote radio heads (RRHs), the huge network power consumption has become a great challenge for green cloud radio access networks (Cloud-RANs), and multiuser downlink beamforming has been proposed as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Zhi Yu , Ke Wang , Lei Chen , Hong Ji

Cloud-based Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is a promising architecture for future cellular networks, in which Baseband Units (BBUs) are placed at a centralized location, with capacity-constrained fronthaul connected to multiple distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Lei You , Di Yuan

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

This paper provides a unified framework to deal with the challenges arising in dense cloud radio access networks (C-RAN), which include huge power consumption, limited fronthaul capacity, heavy computational complexity, unavailability of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Cunhua Pan , Huiling Zhu , Nathan J. Gomes , Jiangzhou Wang

Fog-computing network combines the cloud computing and fog access points (FAPs) equipped with mobile edge computing (MEC) servers together to support computation-intensive tasks for mobile users. However, as FAPs have limited computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-28 Yijin Pan , Huilin Jiang , Huiling Zhu , Jiangzhou Wang

In light of the premises of beyond fifth generation (B5G) networks, the need for better exploiting the capabilities of cloud-enabled networks arises, so as to cope with the large-scale interference resulting from the massive increase of…

This paper considers the uplink of a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) comprised of several multi-antenna remote radio units (RUs) which compress the signals that they receive from multiple mobile users (MUs) and forward them to a CU via…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Marzieh Najafi , Vahid Jamali , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober