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We consider the uplink of a cloud radio access network (C-RAN), where massive MIMO remote radio heads (RRHs) serve as relays between users and a centralized baseband unit (BBU). Although employing massive MIMO at RRHs can improve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-01 An Liu , Xihan Chen , Wei Yu , Vincent Lau , Min-Jian Zhao

The cloud-radio access network (CRAN) is expected to be the core network architecture for next generation mobile radio systems. In this paper, we consider the downlink of a CRAN formed of one central processor (the cloud) and several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-28 Oussama Dhifallah , Hayssam Dahrouj , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Network softwarization has revolutionized the architecture of cellular wireless networks. State-of-the-art container based virtual radio access networks (vRAN) provide enormous flexibility and reduced life cycle management costs, but they…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Paris Carbone , Gyoergy Dan , James Gross , Bo Goeransson , Marina Petrova

Large-scale cloud radio access network (LS-CRAN) is a highly promising next-generation cellular network architecture whereby lots of base stations (BSs) equipped with a massive antenna array are connected to a cloud-computing based central…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Kyung Jun Choi , Kwang Soon Kim

Cooperative beamforming across access points (APs) and fronthaul quantization strategies are essential for cloud radio access network (C-RAN) systems. The nonconvexity of the C-RAN optimization problems, which is stemmed from per-AP power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-07 Daesung Yu , Hoon Lee , Seok-Hwan Park , Seung-Eun Hong

It is known that data rates in standard cellular networks are limited due to inter-cell interference. An effective solution of this problem is to use the multi-cell cooperation idea. In Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN), which is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Fehmi Emre Kadan , Ali Özgür Yılmaz

Telehealth and wearable equipment can deliver personal healthcare and necessary treatment remotely. One major challenge is transmitting large amount of biosignals through wireless networks. The limited battery life calls for low-power data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Benyuan Liu , Zhilin Zhang , Hongqi Fan , Qiang Fu

LPWANs have become ubiquitous due to their ability to connect sensors over large geographic areas in a single hop. It is, however, very challenging to achieve massive scalability in LPWANs, where numerous sensors can transmit data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Mahbubur Rahman

In millimeter-wave communication systems with large-scale antenna arrays, conventional digital beamforming may not be cost-effective. A promising solution is the implementation of hybrid beamforming techniques, which consist of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Jaein Kim , Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Inkyu Lee , Shlomo Shamai

There have been many research efforts in the area of localization in recent years. Especially within the Internet of Things (IoT), the knowledge of position information for individual components is of great interest, for example, in asset…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Thomas Maul , Joerg Robert , Sebastian Klob

Realizing the 6G vision of artificial intelligence (AI) and integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) critically requires large-scale real-world channel datasets for channel modeling and data-driven AI models. However, traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Yi Chen , Ming Li , Chong Han

Low-Rank Factorization (LRF) is a widely adopted technique for compressing deep neural networks (DNNs). However, it faces several challenges, including optimal rank selection, a vast design space, long fine-tuning times, and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 M. Kokhazadeh , G. Keramidas , V. Kelefouras

Achieving sub-10 m indoor ranging with LoRaWAN is challenging because multipath, human blockage, and micro-climate dynamics induce non-stationary attenuation in received signal strength indicator (RSSI) measurements. We present a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Nahshon Mokua Obiri , Kristof Van Laerhoven

In this paper we introduce Principal Filter Analysis (PFA), an easy to use and effective method for neural network compression. PFA exploits the correlation between filter responses within network layers to recommend a smaller network that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Xavier Suau , Luca Zappella , Nicholas Apostoloff

Deep neural networks generally involve some layers with mil- lions of parameters, making them difficult to be deployed and updated on devices with limited resources such as mobile phones and other smart embedded systems. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Xing Wang , Jie Liang

This paper investigates the fronthaul compression problem in a user-centric cloud radio access network, in which single-antenna users are served by a central processor (CP) cooperatively via a cluster of remote radio heads (RRHs). To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Ruihua Qiao , Tao Jiang , Wei Yu

The cloud radio access network (C-RAN) concept, in which densely deployed access points (APs) are empowered by cloud computing to cooperatively support mobile users (MUs), to improve mobile data rates, has been recently proposed. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-24 Shixin Luo , Rui Zhang , Teng Joon Lim

A novel dynamic radio-cooperation strategy is proposed for Cloud Radio Access Networks (C-RANs) consisting of multiple Remote Radio Heads (RRHs) connected to a central Virtual Base Station (VBS) pool. In particular, the key capabilities of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Tuyen X. Tran , Dario Pompili

The recent advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT) enables the possibility of data collection from diverse environments using IoT devices. However, despite the rapid advancement of low-power communication technologies, the deployment of…

Uplink-downlink duality refers to the fact that the Gaussian broadcast channel has the same capacity region as the dual Gaussian multiple-access channel under the same sumpower constraint. This paper investigates a similar duality…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-30 Liang Liu , Pratik Patil , Wei Yu