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Centralized coded caching and delivery is studied for a partially-connected fog radio access network (F-RAN), whereby a set of H edge nodes (ENs) (without caches), connected to a cloud server via orthogonal fronthaul links, serve K users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Ahmed Roushdy , Abolfazl Seyed Motahari , Mohammed Nafie , Deniz Gunduz

In this paper, we investigate for the first time the benefits of wireless caching for the physical layer security (PLS) of wireless networks. In particular, a caching scheme enabling power-efficient PLS is proposed for cellular video…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Lin Xiang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober , Vincent W. S. Wong

There is a widely held belief that future Radio Access Network (RAN) architectures will be characterized by increased levels of virtualization, whereby base station functionalities, traditionally residing at a single location, will be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Sandra Lagén , Xavier Gelabert , Andreas Hansson , Manuel Requena , Lorenza Giupponi

Coded caching (CC) schemes exploit the cumulative cache memory of the users and simple linear coding to turn unicast traffic (individual file requests) into a multicast transmission. For the originally proposed $K$-user single-server/single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Kagan Akcay , MohammadJavad Salehi , Giuseppe Caire

Wireless content caching in small cell networks (SCNs) has recently been considered as an efficient way to reduce the traffic and the energy consumption of the backhaul in emerging heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets). In this paper,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Zheng Chen , Jemin Lee , Tony Q. S. Quek , Marios Kountouris

Cellular and Broadcast services have been traditionally treated independently due to the different market requirements, thus resulting in different business models and orthogonal frequency allocations. However, with the advent of cheap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-01 Symeon Chatzinotas , Dimitrios Christopoulos , Bjorn Ottersten

This paper considers a multicloud radio access network (M-CRAN), wherein each cloud serves a cluster of base-stations (BS's) which are connected to the clouds through high capacity digital links. The network comprises several remote users,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Hayssam Dahrouj , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The limited fronthaul capacity is known to be one of the main problems in cloud radio access networks (CRANs), especially in the wireless fronthaul links. In this paper, we consider the uplink of a CRAN system, where massive multiple-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Dick Maryopi , Yingjia Huang , Aissa Ikhlef

In a Fog Radio Access Network (F-RAN), the cloud processor (CP) collects channel state information (CSI) from the edge nodes (ENs) over fronthaul links. As a result, the CSI at the cloud is generally affected by an error due to outdating.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Jingjing Zhang , Osvaldo Simeone

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

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

Mobile edge computing provides users with a cloud environment close to the edge of the wireless network, supporting the computing intensive applications that have low latency requirements. The combination of offloading with the wireless…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-08 Ruoyun Chen , Hancheng Lu , Pengfei Ma

The capacity of caching networks has received considerable attention in the past few years. A particularly studied setting is the shared link caching network, in which a single source with access to a file library communicates with multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Mingyue Ji , Antonia Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Giuseppe Caire

This work considers the downlink of a cloud radio access network (C-RAN), in which a control unit (CU) encodes confidential messages, each of which is intended for a user equipment (UE) and is to be kept secret from all the other UEs. As…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Shlomo Shamai

In this paper, we leverage reinforcement learning (RL) and cross-layer network coding (CLNC) for efficiently pre-fetching users' contents to the local caches and delivering these contents to users in a downlink fog-radio access network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Mohammed S. Al-Abiad , Md. Zoheb Hassan , Md. Jahangir Hossain

Smart helpers (SHs) have been proposed to improve content delivery delays and alleviate high fronthaul loads in fog radio access networks (F-RANs). They offer an alternative to deploying additional enhanced remote radio heads (RRHs), which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-29 Hesameddin Mokhtarzadeh , Mohammed Saif , Md. Jahangir Hossain , Julian Cheng

In-network caching is one of the fundamental operations of Information-centric networks (ICN). The default caching strategy taken by most of the current ICN proposals is caching along--default--path, which makes popular objects to be cached…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Sumanta Saha , Andrey Lukyanenko , Antti Ylä-Jääski

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has recently been recognized as a promising scheme for a fusion center to achieve fast distributed data aggregation in wireless networks via exploiting the superposition property of multiple-access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-23 Lukuan Xing , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi

The conventional design of cellular systems prescribes the separation of uplink and downlink transmissions via time-division or frequency-division duplex. Recent advances in analog and digital domain self-interference interference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 O. Simeone , E. Erkip , S. Shamai

Centralized Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is a new paradigm for wireless networks that centralizes the signal processing in a computing cloud, allowing commodity computational resources to be pooled. While C-RAN improves utilization and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Kyle Whetzel , Matthew C. Valenti