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Providing efficient and reliable content delivery in rural areas remains a significant challenge due to the lack of communication infrastructure. To bridge the digital divide, this paper investigates the potential of leveraging multiple…
This paper aims to characterize the synergy of distributed caching and wireless fronthaul in a fog radio access network (Fog-RAN) where all edge nodes (ENs) and user equipments (UEs) have a local cache and store contents independently at…
Recent studies on cloud-radio access networks assume either signal-level or scheduling-level coordination. This paper considers a hybrid coordinated scheme as a means to benefit from both policies. Consider the downlink of a multi-cloud…
For the energy-efficient deployment of cell-free massive MIMO functionality in a practical wireless network, the end-to-end (from radio site to the cloud) energy-aware operation is essential. In line with the cloudification and…
To facilitate wireless transmission of multimedia content to mobile users, we propose a content caching and distribution framework for smart grid enabled OFDM networks, where each popular multimedia file is coded and distributively stored…
This paper presents a content-centric transmission design in a cloud radio access network (cloud RAN) by incorporating multicasting and caching. Users requesting a same content form a multicast group and are served by a same cluster of base…
In this paper, we propose an energy-efficient federated learning (FL) framework for the energy-constrained devices over cloud radio access network (Cloud-RAN), where each device adopts quantized neural networks (QNNs) to train a local FL…
Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is considered as one of the most promising candidate for Fifth Generation (5G) wireless communication system. However, C-RAN imposes stringent requirements on fronthaul in terms of capacity which in turn…
The evolution of wireless mobile networks towards cloudification, where Radio Access Network (RAN) functions can be hosted at either a central or distributed locations, offers many benefits like low cost deployment, higher capacity, and…
In order to support communication and computation cooperation, we propose ME-RAN architecture, which consists of mobile edge cloud (ME) as the computation provision platform and radio access network (RAN) as the communication interface.…
Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) has emerged as a potential candidate of the next generation access network technology to address the increasing mobile traffic, while mobile cloud computing (MCC) offers a prospective solution to the…
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…
This paper studies joint uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) resource allocation in user-centric orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) cloud radio access network (CRAN), where the users select the distributed remote radio heads…
Recently, implementing Radio Access Network (RAN) functionalities on cloud-based computing platform has become an emerging solution that leverages the many advantages of cloud infrastructure, such as shared computing resources and storage…
Fog Radio Access Network (F-RAN) exploits cached contents at edge nodes (ENs) and fronthaul connection to the cloud for content delivery. Assuming dedicated fronthaul links between cloud and each EN, previous works focused on analyses of…
Centralized coded caching and delivery is studied for a radio access combination network (RACN), whereby a set of $H$ edge nodes (ENs), connected to a cloud server via orthogonal fronthaul links with limited capacity, serve a total of $K$…
In this paper, the placement strategy design of coded caching in fog-radio access networks (F-RANs) is investigated. By considering time-variant content popularity, federated deep reinforcement learning is exploited to learn the placement…
Fog-aided network architectures for 5G systems encompass wireless edge nodes, referred to as remote radio systems (RRSs), as well as remote cloud center (RCC) processors, which are connected to the RRSs via a fronthaul access network. RRSs…
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…
A fog computing based radio access network (F-RAN) is presented in this article as a promising paradigm for the fifth generation (5G) wireless communication system to provide high spectral and energy efficiency. The core idea is to take…