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The increasing complexity and dynamic nature of 5G open radio access networks (O-RAN) pose significant challenges to maintaining low latency, high throughput, and resource efficiency. While existing methods leverage machine learning for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Raúl Parada , Ebrahim Abu-Helalah , Jordi Serra , Anton Aguilar , Paolo Dini

Artificial intelligence approaches for base-band processing for radio receivers have demonstrated significant performance gains. Most of the proposed methods are characterized by high compute and memory requirements, hindering their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Mahdi Abdollahpour , Marco Bertuletti , Yichao Zhang , Yawei Li , Luca Benini , Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli

Current and future applications demand ultra-low latency and consistent throughput, yet frequently traverse 5G cellular networks, so cope with volatile packet dynamics, as 5G base station schedulers dynamically react to user workloads and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Haoran Wan , Yaxiong Xie , Kyle Jamieson

Radio Access Network faces challenges from privacy and flexible wide area and local area network access. RAN is limited from providing local service directly due to centralized design of cellular network and concerns of user privacy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Hao Xu , Xun Liu , Qinghai Zeng , Qiang Li , Shibin Ge , Guohua Zhou , Raymond Forbes

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

Open RAN brings multi-vendor diversity and interoperability to mobile/cellular networks. It is becoming part of governmental strategies for diversifying telecoms supply chains. This paper describes the approach and key achievements of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Adnan Aijaz , Sajida Gufran , Tim Farnham , Sita Chintalapati , Adrián Sánchez-Mompó , Peizheng Li

The growing demand for ubiquitous mobile data services along with the scarcity of spectrum in the sub-6 GHz bands has given rise to the recent interest in developing wireless systems that can exploit the large amount of spectrum available…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Russell Ford , Menglei Zhang , Sourjya Dutta , Marco Mezzavilla , Sundeep Rangan , Michele Zorzi

Telecommunications networks generate extensive performance and environmental telemetry, yet most LTE and 5G-NR deployments still rely on static, manually engineered configurations. This limits adaptability in rural, nomadic, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Simran Saxena , Arpad Kovesdy

Under conventional 5G system design, the authentication and continuous monitoring of user equipment (UE) demands a reliable backhaul connection between the radio access network (RAN) and the core network functions (AMF, AUSF, UDM, etc.).…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Lucas Vancina , Geoffrey Xie

Research and development on the next generation wireless systems, namely 5G, has experienced explosive growth in recent years. In the physical layer (PHY), the massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) technique and the use of high GHz…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Yiming Huo , Xiaodai Dong , Wei Xu

Integrating Large AI Models (LAMs) into 6G mobile networks is a key enabler of the AI-Native Air Interface (AI-AI), where protocol intelligence must scale beyond handcrafted logic. This paper presents, to our knowledge, the first…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Ziming Liu , Bryan Liu , Alvaro Valcarce , Xiaoli Chu

Fifth generation (5G) cellular networks will serve a wide variety of heterogeneous use cases, including mobile broadband users, ultra-low latency services and massively dense connectivity scenarios. The resulting diverse communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Leonardo Bonati , Michele Polese , Salvatore D'Oro , Stefano Basagni , Tommaso Melodia

Cell-free multiple input multiple output (CF-MIMO) systems improve spectral and energy efficiencies using distributed access points (APs) to provide reliable service across an area equivalent to multiple conventional cells. This paper…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yi Chu , Mostafa Rahmani , Josh Shackleton , David Grace , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Hamed Ahmadi , Alister Burr

The Open Radio Access Network (RAN) is a networking paradigm that builds on top of cloud-based, multi-vendor, open and intelligent architectures to shape the next generation of cellular networks for 5G and beyond. While this new paradigm…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Joshua Groen , Salvatore DOro , Utku Demir , Leonardo Bonati , Michele Polese , Tommaso Melodia , Kaushik Chowdhury

The move toward Sixth-Generation (6G) networks relies on open interfaces and protocols for seamless interoperability across devices, vendors, and technologies. In this context, open 6G development involves multiple disciplines and requires…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Farhad Rezazadeh , Amir Ashtari Gargari , Sandra Lagén , Josep Mangues , Dusit Niyato , Lingjia Liu

The main goal of this article is to present the fundamental theoretical concepts for the tutorial presented in IEEE NetSoft 2020. The article explores the use of software in the 5G system composed of the Radio Access Network (RAN) and the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Kleber Vieira Cardoso , Cristiano Bonato Both , Lúcio Rene Prade , Ciro J. A. Macedo , Victor Hugo L. Lopes

Emerging 5G/6G use cases span various industries, necessitating flexible solutions that leverage emerging technologies to meet diverse and stringent application requirements under changing network conditions. The standard 5G RAN solution,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Osel Lhamo , Tung V. Doan , Elif Tasdemir , Mahdi Attawna , Giang T. Nguyen , Patrick Seeling , Martin Reisslein , Frank H. P. Fitzek

Edge computing that leverages cloud resources to the proximity of user devices is seen as the future infrastructure for distributed applications. However, developing and deploying edge applications, that rely on cellular networks, is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Juuso Haavisto , Muhammad Arif , Lauri Lovén , Teemu Leppänen , Jukka Riekki

This paper presents the description of several key RAN enablers for the radio resource management (RRM) framework of the fifth generation (5G) radio access network (RAN), referred to as building blocks of the 5G RRM. In particular, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-09 D. M. Gutierrez-Estevez , Ö. Bulakci , M. Ericson , A. Prasad , E. Pateromichelakis , J. Belschner , P. Arnold , G. Calochira

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) will enable context-aware services for users of mobile 4G/5G networks. MEC application developers need tools to aid the design and the performance evaluation of their apps. During the early stages of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Alessandro Noferi , Giovanni Nardini , Giovanni Stea , Antonio Virdis