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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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Yingqi Chen , Yanxiang Jiang , Fu-Chun Zheng , Mehdi Bennis , Xiaohu You

In cloud radio access networks (C-RANs), a substantial amount of data must be exchanged in both backhaul and fronthaul links, which causes high power consumption and poor quality of service (QoS) experience for real-time services. To solve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Zhongyuan Zhao , Mugen Peng , Zhiguo Ding , Wenbo Wang , H. Vincent Poor

The cloud radio access network (C-RAN) provides high spectral and energy efficiency performances, low expenditures and intelligent centralized system structures to operators, which has attracted intense interests in both academia and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-30 Jian Li , Mugen Peng , Aolin Cheng , Yuling Yu , Chonggang Wang

In this paper, the edge caching problem in ultra-dense fog radio access networks (F-RAN) is investigated. Taking into account time-variant user requests and ultra-dense deployment of fog access points (F-APs), we propose a dynamic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Yabai Hu , Yanxiang Jiang , Mehdi Bennis , Fu-Chun Zheng

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) enabled fog radio access networks (NOMA-F-RANs) have been taken as a promising enabler to release network congestion, reduce delivery latency, and improve fog user equipments' (F-UEs') quality of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-03 Zhong Yang , Yaru Fu , Yuanwei Liu , Yue Chen , Junshan Zhang

In a Fog Radio Access Network (F-RAN) architecture, edge nodes (ENs), such as base stations, are equipped with limited-capacity caches, as well as with fronthaul links that can support given transmission rates from a cloud processor.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Seyyed Mohammadreza Azimi , Osvaldo Simeone , Avik Sengupta , Ravi Tandon

Recently, an evolution of the Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) has been proposed, named as Fog Radio Access Network (F-RAN). Compared to C-RAN, the Radio Units (RUs) in F-CAN are equipped with local caches, which can store some frequently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Di Chen , Stephan Schedler , Volker Kuehn

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

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Fan Xu , Meixia Tao

Current Distributed Radio Access Networks~(D-RANs), which are characterized by a static configuration and deployment of Base Stations~(BSs), have exposed their limitations in handling the temporal and geographical fluctuations of capacity…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Abolfazl Hajisami , Tuyen X. Tran , Dario Pompili

Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) and massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) are two key enabling technologies to meet the diverse and stringent requirements of the 5G use cases. In a C-RAN system with massive MIMO, fronthaul is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-11 Jobin Francis , Gerhard Fettweis

In multi-tiered fog computing systems, to accelerate the processing of computation-intensive tasks for real-time IoT applications, resource-limited IoT devices can offload part of their workloads to nearby fog nodes, whereafter such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Xin Gao , Xi Huang , Simeng Bian , Ziyu Shao , Yang Yang

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Seyyed Mohammadreza Azimi

In this paper, a Cognitive Radio Network (CRN) based on artificial intelligence is proposed to distribute the limited radio spectrum resources more efficiently. The CRN framework can analyze the time-sensitive signal data close to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-29 Jingyang Lu , Lun Li , Genshe Chen , Dan Shen , Khanh Pham , Erik Blasch

This paper addresses the critical challenge posed by the increasing energy consumption in mobile networks, particularly with the advent of Sixth Generation (6G) technologies. We propose an adaptive network management framework that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Gustavo Z. Bruno , Gabriel M. Almeida , Aloizio Da Silva , Luiz A. DaSilva , Joao F. Santos , Alexandre Huff , Kleber V. Cardoso , Cristiano B. Both

As networks evolve towards 6G, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) must accommodate diverse requirements and at the same time manage rising energy consumption. Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) networks facilitate dense cellular deployments…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Reshma Prasad , Maxime Elkael , Gabriele Gemmi , Osama M. Bushnaq , Debashisha Mishra , Prasanna Raut , Jennifer Simonjan , Michele Polese , Tommaso Melodia

In this paper, we investigate the problem of asynchronous coded caching in fog radio access networks (F-RANs). To minimize the fronthaul load, the encoding set collapsing rule and encoding set partition method are proposed to establish the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Yanxiang Jiang , Wenlong Huang , Mehdi Bennis , Fu-Chun Zheng

Fog radio access network (F-RAN) and virtualisation are promising technologies for 5G networks. In F-RAN, the fog and cloud computing are integrated where the conventional C-RAN functions are diverged to the edge devices of radio access…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Yu Zeng , Ahmed Al-Quzweeni , Taisir E. H. Elgorashi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

Dynamic resource allocation in open radio access network (O-RAN) heterogeneous networks (HetNets) presents a complex optimisation challenge under varying user loads. We propose a near-real-time RAN intelligent controller (Near-RT RIC) xApp…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Oluwaseyi Giwa , Jonathan Shock , Jaco Du Toit , Tobi Awodumila

Taking full advantages of both heterogeneous networks (HetNets) and cloud access radio access networks (CRANs), heterogeneous cloud radio access networks (H-CRANs) are presented to enhance both the spectral and energy efficiencies, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Mugen Peng , Kecheng Zhang , Jiamo Jiang , Jiaheng Wang , Wenbo Wang