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Cloud RAN (C-RAN) is a promising enabler for distributed massive MIMO systems, yet is vulnerable to its fronthaul congestion. To cope with the limited fronthaul capacity, this paper proposes a hybrid analog-digital precoding design that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Jihong Park , Dong Min Kim , Elisabeth De Carvalho , Carles Navarro Manchón

Cloud-Radio Access Networks (Cloud-RANs) are separating the mobile networks base station functions into three units, the connection between the two of them is referred to as the fronthaul network. This work demonstrates the transmission of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Line Larsen , Frank Slyne , Ghizlane Mountaser , Marco Ruffini , Toktam Mahmoodi

Massive MIMO and C-RAN are two promising techniques for implementing future wireless communication systems, where a large number of antennas are deployed either being co-located at the base station (BS) or totally distributed at separate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Liang Liu , Rui Zhang

Wireless backhaul allows densification of mobile networks without incurring additional fiber deployment cost. This, in turn, leads to high spatial reuse, which is a significant tool to meet increasing wireless demand in 5G networks.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Muhammad Nazmul Islam , Navid Abedini , Georg Hampel , Sundar Subramanian , Junyi Li

We consider fronthaul-limited generalized zeroforcing-based cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems with multiple-antenna users and multipleantenna access points (APs) relying on both cooperative beamforming (CB)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zahra Mobini , Ahmet Hasim Gokceoglu , Li Wang , Gunnar Peters , Hien Quoc Ngo

Delivering Gbps high user rate over long distances (around 1 km) is challenging, and the abundant spectrum available in millimeter wave band cannot solve the challenge by its own due to the severe path loss and other limitations. Since it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Jinfeng Du , Efe Onaran , Dmitry Chizhik , Sivarama Venkatesan , Reinaldo A. Valenzuela

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

In order to make Internet connections ubiquitous and autonomous in our daily lives, maximizing the utilization of radio resources and social information is one of the major research topics in future mobile communication technologies. Fog…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Haijun Zhang , Yu Qiu , Xiaoli Chu , Keping Long , Victor C. M. Leung

As wireless communication evolves towards 5G, both fixed broadband and mobile broadband will play a crucial part in providing the Gbps infrastructure for a connected society. This paper proposes a Millimeter-wave Gbps Broadband (MGB) system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Zhouyue Pi , Junil Choi , Robert Heath

The emergence of Centralized-RAN (C-RAN) has revolutionized mobile network infrastructure, offering streamlined cell-site engineering and enhanced network management capabilities. As C-RAN gains momentum, the focus shifts to optimizing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Marcello Morini , Eugenio Moro , Ilario Filippini , Danilo De Donno , Antonio Capone

We consider a virtualized RAN architecture for 5G networks where the Remote Units are connected to a central unit via a mid-haul. To support high data rates, the midhaul is realized with a Passive Optical Network (PON). In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Abhishek Sinha , Matthew Andrews , Prasanth Ananth

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

This paper considers the following question for viable wide-area millimeter wave cellular networks. What is the maximum extended coverage area of a single fiber site using multi-hop relaying, while achieving a minimum target per user data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Mandar N. Kulkarni , Amitava Ghosh , Jeffrey G. Andrews

With the emergence of Cloud-RAN as one of the dominant architectural solutions for next-generation mobile networks, the reliability and latency on the fronthaul (FH) segment become critical performance metrics for applications such as the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Ghizlane Mountaser , Toktam Mahmoodi , Osvaldo Simeone

The radio access network (RAN) connects the users to the core networks, where typically digitised radio over fiber (D-RoF) links are employed. The data rate of the RAN is limited by the hardware constraints of the D-RoF-based backhaul and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Yichuan Li , Qijie Xie , Mohammed El-Hajjar , Lajos Hanzo

In 5G networks, base station (BS) disaggregation and new services present challenges in radio access network (RAN) configuration, particularly in meeting their bandwidth and latency constraints. The BS disaggregation is enabled by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Gabriela N. Caspa H. , Carlos A. Astudillo , Nelson L. S. da Fonseca

To satisfy the ever-increasing capacity demand and quality of service (QoS) requirements of users, 5G cellular systems will take the form of heterogeneous networks (HetNets) that consist of macro cells and small cells. To build and operate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Sangkyu Park , Chan-Byoung Chae , Saewoong Bahk

The recently proposed NR-ready integrated access and backhaul (IAB) architecture promises to bring a cost-efficient deployment solution for both coverage extension and capacity boosting in future 5G/5G+ systems. While its impact on the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Yekaterina Sadovaya , Dmitri Moltchanov , Wei Mao , Oner Orhan , Shu-ping Yeh , Hosein Nikopour , Shilpa Talwar , Sergey Andreev

Wireless backhaul is considered to be the key part of the future wireless network with dense small cell traffic and high capacity demand. In this paper, we focus on the design of a high spectral efficiency line-of-sight (LoS) multiple-input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-20 Ye Xue , Xuanyu Zheng , Vincent Lau

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mugen Peng , Shi Yan , Kecheng Zhang , Chonggang Wang