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Nowadays, while the demand for capacity continues to expand, the blossoming of Internet of Everything is bringing in a paradigm shift to new perceptions of communication networks, ushering in a plethora of totally unique services. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Masoud Shokrnezhad , Tarik Taleb

Cloud radio access network (CRAN), in which remote radio heads (RRHs) are deployed to serve users in a target area, and connected to a central processor (CP) via limited-capacity links termed the fronthaul, is a promising candidate for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Reuben George Stephen , Rui Zhang

Cloud radio access networks (C-RAN) enable a network platform for beyond the fifth generation of communication networks (B5G), which incorporates the advances in cloud computing technologies to modern radio access networks. Recently, rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Alaa Alameer Ahmad , Yijie Mao , Aydin Sezgin , Bruno Clerckx

Open radio access network (ORAN) alliance which has been formed recently establishes a flexible, open, and smart radio access network (RAN) by combing the ideas from xRAN and cloud RAN (C-RAN). ORAN divides the functions of the RAN into…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Mojdeh Karbalaee Motalleb , Vahid Shah-Mansouri , Salar Nouri Naghadeh

Resource allocation is of great importance in the next generation wireless communication systems, especially for cognitive radio networks (CRNs). Many resource allocation strategies have been proposed to optimize the performance of CRNs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Fuhui Zhou , Xiongjian Zhang , Rose Qingyang Hu , Apostolos Papathanassiou , Weixiao Meng

In the rapidly evolving landscape of 5G and beyond, cloud-native Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) present a paradigm shift towards intelligent, flexible, and sustainable network operations. This study addresses the intricate challenge of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Rana M. Sohaib , Syed Tariq Shah , Oluwakayode Onireti , Yusuf Sambo , M. A. Imran

This paper studies multi-user wireless powered communication networks, where energy constrained users charge their energy storages by scavenging energy of the radio frequency signals radiated from a hybrid access point (H-AP). The energy is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Hoon Lee , Kyoung-Jae Lee , Hanjin Kim , Bruno Clerckx , Inkyu Lee

In this paper, we consider an edge cache-assisted millimeter wave cloud radio access network (C-RAN). Each remote radio head (RRH) in the C-RAN has a local cache, which can pre-fetch and store the files requested by the actuators. Multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Wanming Hao , Ming Zeng , Gangcan Sun , Pei Xiao

This work investigates the radio resource management (RRM) design for downlink integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems, jointly optimizing timeslot allocation, beam adaptation, functionality selection, and user-target pairing,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Luis F. Abanto-Leon , Setareh Maghsudi

Network virtualization and cloudification in Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) enable joint orchestration of the processing and fronthaul resources, which are essential for realizing the energy-saving potential of cell-free massive MIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

The evolution of telecommunication network towards cloud-native environments enables flexible centralization of the base band processing of radio signals. There is however a trade-off between the centralization benefits and the fronthaul…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Veronica Quintuna Rodriguez , Fabrice Guillemin , Alexandre Ferrieux , Laurent Thomas

The heterogeneous cloud radio access network (H-CRAN) is a promising paradigm which incorporates the cloud computing into heterogeneous networks (HetNets), thereby taking full advantage of cloud radio access networks (C-RANs) and HetNets.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Mugen Peng , Yuling Yu , Hongyu Xiang , H. Vincent Poor

We propose a new radio resource management algorithm which aims at minimizing the base station supply power consumption for multi-user MIMO-OFDM. Given a base station power model that establishes a relation between the RF transmit power and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-12 Hauke Holtkamp , Gunther Auer , Samer Bazzi , Harald Haas

A key problem in the design of cloud radio access networks (CRANs) is that of devising effective baseband compression strategies for transmission on the fronthaul links connecting a remote radio head (RRH) to the managing central unit (CU).…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-10-07 Eunhye Heo , Osvaldo Simeone , Hyuncheol Park

Terminal devices (TDs) connect to networks through access points (APs) integrated into the edge server. This provides a prerequisite for TDs to upload tasks to cloud data centers or offload them to edge servers for execution. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Qinghui Zhang , Weidong Li , Qian Su , Xuejie Zhang

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

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

Dynamic resource allocation in open radio access network (O-RAN) heterogeneous networks (HetNets) presents a complex optimisation challenge under varying user loads. We propose a near-real-time RAN intelligent controller (Near-RT RIC) xApp…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Oluwaseyi Giwa , Jonathan Shock , Jaco Du Toit , Tobi Awodumila

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

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