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This paper considers networked sensing in cellular network, where multiple base stations (BSs) first compress their received echo signals from multiple targets and then forward the quantized signals to the central unit (CU) via…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-09 Weifeng Zhu , Shuowen Zhang , Liang Liu

Replicating or caching popular content in memories distributed across the network is a technique to reduce peak network loads. Conventionally, the main performance gain of this caching was thought to result from making part of the requested…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Urs Niesen

This paper develops a stochastic geometry-based approach for the modeling, analysis, and optimization of wireless cloud caching networks comprised of multiple-antenna radio units (RUs) inside clouds. We consider the Matern cluster process…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari , Merouane Debbah

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

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

The unprecedented growth of internet contents, specially social media, invoking a challenge to the load of cellular networks. In addition, nowadays, the demands of quality of experience (QoE) became a more practical norm in contrast of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Sepehr Rezvani , Nader Mokari , Mohammad R. Javan

We consider cooperative radio access network architectures, especially distributed massive MIMO and Cloud RAN, considering their similarities and differences. We address in particular the major challenge posed to both by the implementation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Alister Burr , Manijeh Bashar , Dick Maryopi

Breaking the fronthaul capacity limitations is vital to make cloud radio access network (C-RAN) scalable and practical. One promising way is aggregating several remote radio units (RRUs) as a cluster to share a fronthaul link, so as to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Liumeng Wang , Sheng Zhou

In this paper, the problem of opportunistic spectrum sharing for the next generation of wireless systems empowered by the cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is studied. More precisely, low-priority users employ cooperative spectrum sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-17 Hossein Safi , A. M Montazeri , Javane Rostampoor , Saeedeh Parsaeefard

This paper studies transmission strategies for the downlink of a cloud radio access network, in which the base stations are connected to a centralized cloud-computing based processor with digital fronthaul or backhaul links. We provide a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Pratik Patil , Binbin Dai , Wei Yu

Caching at base stations (BSs) is a promising way to offload traffic and eliminate backhaul bottleneck in heterogeneous networks (HetNets). In this paper, we investigate the optimal content placement maximizing the successful offloading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Dong Liu , Chenyang Yang

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 a centralized RAN, the signals from multiple RAPs are processed centrally in a data center. Centralized RAN enables advanced interference coordination strategies while leveraging the elastic provisioning of data processing resources. It…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Peter Rost , Salvatore Talarico , Matthew C. Valenti

With the proliferation of latency-critical applications, fog-radio network (FRAN) has been envisioned as a paradigm shift enabling distributed deployment of cloud-clone facilities at the network edge. In this paper, we consider proactive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Hong Xing , Jingjing Cui , Yansha Deng , Arumugam Nallanathan

The exploitation of already deployed wireless local area networks (WLAN)s (e.g., WiFi access points (AP)s) has attracted considerable attention, as an efficient and practical method to improve the performance of beyond 4G wireless networks.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Petros S. Bithas , Athanasios S. Lioumpas

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang , Chathura Sarathchandra Magurawalage

The deployment of small cells is expected to gain huge momentum in the near future, as a solution for managing the skyrocketing mobile data demand growth. Local caching of popular files at the small cell base stations has been recently…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-03-03 Konstantinos Poularakis , George Iosifidis , Vasilis Sourlas , Leandros Tassiulas

This paper addresses the coordinated scheduling problem in cloud-enabled networks. Consider the downlink of a cloud-radio access network (C-RAN), where the cloud is only responsible for the scheduling policy and the synchronization of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Ahmed Douik , Hayssam Dahrouj , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We study the throughput and delay characteristics of wireless caching networks, where users are mainly interested in retrieving content stored in the network, rather than in maintaining source-destination communication. Nodes are assumed to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Milad Mahdian , Edmund Yeh

Terahertz wireless backhaul is expected to meet the high-speed backhaul requirements of future ultra-dense networks using millimeter-wave (mmWave) base stations (BSs). In order to achieve higher network capacity with limited resources and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Lei Wang , Bo Ai , Yong Niu , Haiyan Jiang , Shiwen Mao , Zhangdui Zhong , Ning Wang