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The Radio Access Network (RAN) is a critical component of modern telecommunications infrastructure, currently evolving towards disaggregated and open architectures. These advancements are pivotal for integrating intelligent, data-driven…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Abdelrahim Ahmad , Peizheng Li , Robert Piechocki , Rui Inacio

Multi-Access Point Coordination (MAPC) and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) are expected to be key features in future Wi-Fi, such as the forthcoming IEEE 802.11bn (Wi-Fi~8) and beyond. In this paper, we explore a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Francesc Wilhelmi , Boris Bellalta , Szymon Szott , Katarzyna Kosek-Szott , Sergio Barrachina-Muñoz

This paper studies joint uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) resource allocation in user-centric orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) cloud radio access network (CRAN), where the users select the distributed remote radio heads…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Zehong Lin , Yuan Liu

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) is a promising technology to achieve full-space coverage. This paper investigates the resource allocation problem in a STAR-RIS-assisted multi-carrier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Chenyu Wu , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Xuemai Gu , Xianbin Wang

Next-generation mobile networks require evolved radio access network (RAN) architectures to meet the demands of high capacity, massive connectivity, reduced costs, and energy efficiency, and to realize communication with ultra-low latency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Mahmoud A. Hasabelnaby , Mohanad Obeed , Mohammed Saif , Anas Chaaban , M. J. Hossain

Due to its static protocol design, IEEE 802.11 (aka Wi-Fi) channel access lacks adaptability to address dynamic network conditions, resulting in inefficient spectrum utilization, unnecessary contention, and packet collisions. This paper…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Miguel Casasnovas , Francesc Wilhelmi , Richard Combes , Maksymilian Wojnar , Katarzyna Kosek-Szott , Szymon Szott , Anders Jonsson , Luis Esteve , Boris Bellalta

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

In this paper, we design a new smart software-defined radio access network architecture which is flexible and traffic and density aware for the fifth generation (5G) of cellular wireless networks and beyond. The proposed architecture, based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Mohammad Moltafet , Sepehr Rezvani , Nader Mokari , Mohammad R. Javan , Eduard A. Jorswieck

This paper focuses on improving the resource allocation algorithm in terms of packet delivery ratio (PDR), i.e., the number of successfully received packets sent by end devices (EDs) in a long-range wide-area network (LoRaWAN). Setting the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Farzad Azizi , Benyamin Teymuri , Rojin Aslani , Mehdi Rasti , Jesse Tolvanen , Pedro H. J. Nardelli

To achieve the requirement of high data rate, low latency, user fairness for next generation wireless networks, proper designing of cross-layer optimized dynamic resource allocation algorithm is prerequisite. In this paper, we propose a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-07-07 Arijit Ukil , Jaydip Sen , Debasish Bera

We study the problem of decentralized task offloading and load-balancing in a dense network with numerous devices and a set of edge servers. Solving this problem optimally is complicated due to the unknown network information and random…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Mariam Yahya , Alexander Conzelmann , Setareh Maghsudi

The evolution of radio access networks (RANs) toward virtualization and openness creates new opportunities for flexible, cost-effective, and high-performance deployments. Achieving real-time and energy-efficient baseband processing on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Jaebum Park , Chan-Byoung Chae , Robert W. Heath

O-RAN systems and their deployment in virtualized general-purpose computing platforms (O-Cloud) constitute a paradigm shift expected to bring unprecedented performance gains. However, these architectures raise new implementation challenges…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Fatih Aslan , George Iosifidis , Jose A. Ayala-Romero , Andres Garcia-Saavedra , Xavier Costa-Perez

User demand on network communication infrastructure has never been greater with applications such as extended reality, holographic telepresence, and wireless brain-computer interfaces challenging current networking capabilities. Open RAN…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Noe Yungaicela-Naula , Vishal Sharma , Sandra Scott-Hayward

Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) has introduced an emerging RAN architecture that enables openness, intelligence, and automated control. The RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) provides the platform to design and deploy RAN controllers. xApps…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Mohammadreza Kouchaki , Vuk Marojevic

Emerging AI/ML techniques have been showing great potential in automating network control in open radio access networks (Open RAN). However, existing approaches heavily rely on blackbox policies parameterized by deep neural networks, which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Ming Zhao , Yuru Zhang , Qiang Liu , Ahan Kak , Nakjung Choi

Real-time Internet of Things (IoT) applications require real-time support to handle the ever-growing demand for computing resources to process IoT workloads. Fog Computing provides high availability of such resources in a distributed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Maad Ebrahim , Abdelhakim Hafid

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are capable of serving as aerial base stations (BSs) for providing both cost-effective and on-demand wireless communications. This article investigates dynamic resource allocation of multiple UAVs enabled…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-25 Jingjing Cui , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

For the energy-efficient deployment of cell-free massive MIMO functionality in a practical wireless network, the end-to-end (from radio site to the cloud) energy-aware operation is essential. In line with the cloudification and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Meysam Masoudi , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

Federated learning (FL) is a popular distributed machine learning (ML) technique in Internet of Things (IoT) networks, where resource-constrained devices collaboratively train ML models while preserving data privacy. However, implementation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Payam Abdisarabshali , Nicholas Accurso , Filippo Malandra , Weifeng Su , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour