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Open Radio Access Network (O RAN) disaggregates conventional RAN into interoperable components, enabling flexible resource allocation, energy savings, and agile architectural design. In legacy deployments, the binding between logical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Sebastian Racedo , Brigitte Jaumard , Oscar Delgado , Meysam Masoudi

Radio Access Network (RAN) slicing enables multiple logical networks to exist on top of the same physical infrastructure by allocating resources to distinct service groups, where radio resource scheduling plays a key role in ensuring…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Md Arafat Habib , Medhat Elsayed , Majid Bavand , Pedro Enrique Iturria Rivera , Yigit Ozcan , Melike Erol-Kantarci

5G and beyond cellular networks (NextG) will support the continuous execution of resource-expensive edge-assisted deep learning (DL) tasks. To this end, Radio Access Network (RAN) resources will need to be carefully "sliced" to satisfy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Corrado Puligheddu , Jonathan Ashdown , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini , Francesco Restuccia

Fifth generation mobile communication systems (5G) have to accommodate both Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC) and enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) services. While, eMBB applications support high data rates, URLLC services aim…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Homa Nikbakht , Michèle Wigger , Malcolm Egan , Shlomo Shamai , Jean-Marie Gorce , H. Vincent Poor

Network slicing is a promising technology that allows mobile network operators to efficiently serve various emerging use cases in 5G. It is challenging to optimize the utilization of network infrastructures while guaranteeing the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Qiang Liu , Nakjung Choi , Tao Han

Interference among concurrent transmissions in a wireless network is a key factor limiting the system performance. One way to alleviate this problem is to manage the radio resources in order to maximize either the average or the worst-case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Navid Naderializadeh , Jaroslaw Sydir , Meryem Simsek , Hosein Nikopour , Shilpa Talwar

Network slicing-based communication systems can dynamically and efficiently allocate resources for diversified services. However, due to the limitation of the network interface on channel access and the complexity of the resource…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zhengming Zhang , Yongming Huang , Cheng Zhang , Qingbi Zheng , Luxi Yang , Xiaohu You

This paper studies the coexistence of enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) services in a cellular network that is assisted by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). The system model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-06 Mohammed AL-Mekhlafi , Mohamed Amine Arfaoui , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Ali Ghrayeb

In this paper, a proactive dynamic spectrum sharing scheme between 4G and 5G systems is proposed. In particular, a controller decides on the resource split between NR and LTE every subframe while accounting for future network states such as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Ursula Challita , David Sandberg

5G and beyond networks promise advancements in bandwidth, latency, and connectivity. The Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) framework enhances flexibility through network slicing and closed-loop RAN control. Central to this evolution is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Joshua Groen , Zixian Yang , Divyadharshini Muruganandham , Mauro Belgiovine , Lei Ying , Kaushik Chowdhury

Future wireless networks are convinced to provide flexible and cost-efficient services via exploiting network slicing techniques. However, it is challenging to configure network slicing systems for bursty ultra-reliable and low latency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Peng Yang , Xing Xi , Tony Q. S. Quek , Jingxuan Chen , Xianbin Cao , Dapeng Wu

Virtualized Radio Access Networks (vRANs) are fully configurable and can be implemented at a low cost over commodity platforms to enable network management flexibility. In this paper, a novel vRAN reconfiguration problem is formulated to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Fahri Wisnu Murti , Samad Ali , George Iosifidis , Matti Latva-aho

Network slicing is a proposing technology to support diverse services from mobile users (MUs) over a common physical network infrastructure. In this paper, we consider radio access network (RAN)-only slicing, where the physical RAN is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Xianfu Chen , Zhifeng Zhao , Celimuge Wu , Tao Chen , Honggang Zhang , Mehdi Bennis

Emerging 5G systems will need to efficiently support both enhanced mobile broadband traffic (eMBB) and ultra-low-latency communications (URLLC) traffic. In these systems, time is divided into slots which are further sub-divided into…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Arjun Anand , Gustavo de Veciana , Sanjay Shakkottai

The coexistence of diverse services with heterogeneous requirements is a fundamental feature of 5G. This necessitates efficient radio access network (RAN) slicing, defined as sharing of the wireless resources among diverse services while…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Federico Chiariotti , Israel Leyva-Mayorga , Čedomir Stefanović , Anders E. Kalør , Petar Popovski

In this paper, we propose a joint radio and core resource allocation framework for NFV-enabled networks. In the proposed system model, the goal is to maximize energy efficiency (EE), by guaranteeing end-to-end (E2E) quality of service (QoS)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-14 Narges Gholipoor , Ali Nouruzi , Shima Salarhosseini , Mohammad Reza Javan , Nader Mokari , Eduard A. Jorswieck

The fifth-generation of mobile radio technologies is expected to be agile, flexible, and scalable while provisioning ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (uRLLC), enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), and massive machine type…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Sourav Mondal , Marco Ruffini

We develop a framework based on deep reinforce-ment learning (DRL) to solve the spectrum allocation problem inthe emerging integrated access and backhaul (IAB) architecturewith large scale deployment and dynamic environment. The avail-able…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Wanlu Lei , Yu Ye , Ming Xiao

Traditional multicast routing methods have some problems in constructing a multicast tree, such as limited access to network state information, poor adaptability to dynamic and complex changes in the network, and inflexible data forwarding.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Chenwei Zhao , Miao Ye , Xingsi Xue , Jianhui Lv , Qiuxiang Jiang , Yong Wang

5G new radio is envisioned to support three major service classes: enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC), and massive machine type communications. Emerging URLLC services require up to one…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-13 Ali A. Esswie , Klaus I. Pedersen