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The emergence of 6G technology represents a significant advancement in wireless communications, providing unprecedented speed, extremely low latency, and pioneering applications. In light of this development, an important question arises:…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Sneihil Gopal , Aziz Kord , Richard A. Rouil

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

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

Radio access networks (RAN) are going through a paradigm shift towards interoperable, intelligent, software-defined, and cloud-native open RAN solutions. A key challenge towards the adoption and deployment of open RAN at scale is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Lopamudra Kundu , Xingqin Lin , Elena Agostini , Vikrama Ditya

This tutorial seeks to outline the proposed Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) deployment for Fifth generation (5G) wireless networks. O-RAN seeks to supplant hardware-specific Radio Access Network (RAN) components (e.g., the mobility…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Paul H. Masur , Jeffrey H. Reed

The sixth-generation wireless communications (6G) is often labeled as "connected intelligence". Radio sensing, aligned with machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), promises, among other benefits, breakthroughs in the…

Open Radio Access Networks (ORAN) is a new architectural approach, having been proposed only a few years ago, and it is an expansion of the current Next Generation Radio Access Networks (NG-RAN) of 5G. ORAN aims to break this closed RAN…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Sotiris Michaelides , David Rupprecht , Katharina Kohls

Enabling technologies of 5G and beyond wireless communication networks, such as millimeter-wave communication, beamforming, and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna systems, are becoming increasingly dependent on accurate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Halise Turkmen , Muhammad Sohaib J. Solaija , Haji M. Furqan , Huseyin Arslan

Radio Access Networks (RANs) for telecommunications represent large agglomerations of interconnected hardware consisting of hundreds of thousands of transmitting devices (cells). Such networks undergo frequent and often heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Igor Kozlov , Dmitriy Rivkin , Wei-Di Chang , Di Wu , Xue Liu , Gregory Dudek

Sixth-generation (6G) networks are evolving towards new features and order-of-magnitude enhancement of systematic performance metrics compared to the current 5G. In particular, the 6G networks are expected to achieve extreme connectivity…

The radio access network (RAN) landscape is undergoing a transformative shift from traditional, communication-centric infrastructures towards converged compute-communication platforms. This article introduces AI-RAN which integrates both…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Lopamudra Kundu , Xingqin Lin , Rajesh Gadiyar , Jean-Francois Lacasse , Shuvo Chowdhury

The sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication network is expected to integrate the terrestrial, aerial, and maritime communications into a robust network which would be more reliable, fast, and can support a massive number of devices…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-19 Muhammad Waseem Akhtar , Syed Ali Hassan , Rizwan Ghaffar , Haejoon Jung , Sahil Garg , M. Shamim Hossain

Radio Access Network (RAN) is a bridge between user devices and the core network in mobile communication systems, responsible for the transmission and reception of wireless signals and air interface management. In recent years, Semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Rui Meng , Zixuan Huang , Jingshu Yan , Mengying Sun , Yiming Liu , Chenyuan Feng , Xiaodong Xu , Zhidi Zhang , Song Gao , Ping Zhang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Data-intensive Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications at the network edge demand a fundamental shift in Radio Access Network (RAN) design, from merely consuming AI for network optimization, to actively enabling distributed AI workloads.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Michele Polese , Niloofar Mohamadi , Salvatore D'Oro , Leonardo Bonati , Tommaso Melodia

Network softwarization has revolutionized the architecture of cellular wireless networks. State-of-the-art container based virtual radio access networks (vRAN) provide enormous flexibility and reduced life cycle management costs, but they…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Paris Carbone , Gyoergy Dan , James Gross , Bo Goeransson , Marina Petrova

Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) has become the most certain and prominent feature of 6G mobile networks. Unlike 5G, where AI/ML was not natively integrated but rather an add-on feature over existing architecture, 6G shall…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Nan Li , Qi Sun , Lehan Wang , Xiaofei Xu , Jinri Huang , Chunhui Liu , Jing Gao , Yuhong Huang , Chih-Lin I

The transition to sixth-generation (6G) networks calls for wireless transceivers with enhanced adaptability and efficiency. Reconfigurable antennas (RAs) have emerged as a promising solution, enabling dynamic control over the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Pinjun Zheng , Ruiqi Wang , Yuchen Zhang , Md. Jahangir Hossain , Anas Chaaban , Atif Shamim , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Artificial intelligence (AI)-native radio access networks (RANs) will serve vertical industries with stringent requirements: smart grids, autonomous vehicles, remote healthcare, industrial automation, etc. To achieve these requirements,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Osman Tugay Basaran , Falko Dressler

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

As 5G deployments continue throughout the world, concerns regarding its energy consumption have gained significant traction. This article focuses on radio access networks (RANs) which account for a major portion of the network energy use.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Lopamudra Kundu , Xingqin Lin , Rajesh Gadiyar