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The deployment of ultra-dense networks (UDNs), particularly cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO), is mainly hindered by costly and capacity-limited fronthaul links. This work proposes a two-tiered optimization framework for cost-effective…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Anas S. Mohammed , Krishnendu S. Tharakan , Hussein A. Ammar , Hesham ElSawy , Hossam S. Hassanein

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 studies the downlink of a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) in which a centralized processor (CP) communicates with mobile users through base stations (BSs) that are connected to the CP via finite-capacity fronthaul links.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Pratik Patil , Wei Yu

We investigate the user-to-cell association (or user-clustering) and beamforming design for Cloud Radio Access Networks (CRANs) and Fog Radio Access Networks (FogRANs) for 5G. CRAN enables cloud centralized resource and power allocation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-06 Nicolas Pontois , Megumi Kaneko , Thi Ha Ly Dinh , Lila Boukhatem

Recently, an evolution of the Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) has been proposed, named as Fog Radio Access Network (F-RAN). Compared to C-RAN, the Radio Units (RUs) in F-CAN are equipped with local caches, which can store some frequently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Di Chen , Stephan Schedler , Volker Kuehn

In this paper, we study the design of a hybrid precoder, consisting of an analog and a digital precoder, for the delivery phase of downlink cache-enabled millimeter wave (mmWave) radio access networks (CeMm-RANs). In CeMm-RANs, enhanced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Shiwen He , Yongpeng Wu , Ju Ren , Yongming Huang , Robert Schober , Yaoxue Zhang

Multicast transmission and wireless caching are effective ways of reducing air and backhaul traffic load in wireless networks. This paper proposes to incorporate these two key ideas for content-centric multicast transmission in a cloud…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-12 Hao Zhou , Meixia Tao , Erkai Chen , Wei Yu

Facing the explosion of mobile data traffic, cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is proposed recently to overcome the efficiency and flexibility problems with the traditional RAN architecture by centralizing baseband processing. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-28 Jingchu Liu , Sheng Zhou , Jie Gong , Zhisheng Niu , Shugong Xu

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

In this paper, optimal content caching strategy is proposed to jointly minimize the cell average outage probability and fronthaul usage in cloud radio access network (Cloud-RAN). At first, an accurate closed form expression of the outage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Zhun Ye , Cunhua Pan , Huiling Zhu , Jiangzhou Wang

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

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

In this paper, by considering multiple slices, a downlink transmission of a sparse code multiple access (SCMA) based cloud-radio access network (C-RAN) is investigated. In this regard, by supposing multiple input and single output (MISO)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Mohammad. Moltafet , Saeedeh. Parsaeefard , Mohammad R. Javan , Nader. Mokari

Modulation compression is a technique considered in the recent Open-RAN (O-RAN) framework, which has continued the 3GPP effort towards the definition of new virtualized and multi-vendor RAN architectures. Basically, fronthaul compression is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Sandra Lagen , Lorenza Giupponi , Andreas Hansson , Xavier Gelabert

We consider the analysis and design of distributed wireless networks wherein remote radio heads (RRHs) coordinate transmissions to serve multiple users on the same resource block (RB). Specifically, we analyze two possible multiple-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Hussein A. Ammar , Raviraj Adve , Shahram Shahbazpanahi , Gary Boudreau

Centralized/Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) comes into prominence to reduce the rising energy consumptions and maintenance difficulties of the next-generation networks. However, C-RAN has strict delay requirements, and it needs large…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Turgay Pamuklu , Cem Ersoy

Future communications systems will definitely be built on green infrastructures. To realize such a goal, recently a new network infrastructure named cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is proposed by China Mobile to enhance network coverage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Ang Yang , Zesong Fei , Chengwen Xing , Shaodan Ma , Jingming Kuang , Dalin Zhu , Ming Lei

Ultra-low latency is the most important requirement of the Tactile Internet (TI), which is one of the proposed services for the next-generation wireless network (NGWN), e.g., fifth generation (5G) network. In this paper, a new queuing model…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Narges Gholipoor , Saeedeh Parsaeefard , Mohammad Reza Javan , Nader Mokari , Hamid Saeedi , Hossein Pishro-Nik

Future generations of cellular systems presume to use an extremely high number of antennas to enable mm waves. Increasing the number of antennas requires a growth in connections between a remote radio head (RRH) and a baseband unit (BBU).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Roman Bychkov , Andrey Dergachev , Alexander Osinsky , Dmitry Lakontsev , Andrey Ivanov

This letter proposes a novel Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) traffic analysis and management model that estimates probable RAN traffic congestion and mitigate its effect by adopting a suitable handling mechanism. A computation approach…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Smruti Rekha Swain , Deepika Saxena , Jatinder Kumar , Ashutosh Kumar Singh , Chung-Nan Lee