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The fog radio access network (F-RAN) is a promising technology in which the user mobile devices (MDs) can offload computation tasks to the nearby fog access points (F-APs). Due to the limited resource of F-APs, it is important to design an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Lingling Zhang , Yanxiang Jiang , Fu-Chun Zheng , Mehdi Bennis , Xiaohu You

In the era of 5G mobile communication, there has been a significant surge in research focused on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and mobile edge computing technology. UAVs can serve as intelligent servers in edge computing environments,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhengrong Song , Chuan Ma , Ming Ding , Howard H. Yang , Yuwen Qian , Xiangwei Zhou

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a promising outer-loop intelligence paradigm which can deploy problem solving strategies for complex tasks. Consequently, DRL has been utilized for several scientific applications, specifically in cases…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Sahil Bhola , Suraj Pawar , Prasanna Balaprakash , Romit Maulik

The cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is a promising network architecture for future mobile communications, and one practical hurdle for its large scale implementation is the stringent requirement of high capacity and low latency fronthaul…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Xiongbin Rao , Vincent K. N. Lau

This letter studies a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) with multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) deployed between users and remote radio heads (RRH). Specifically, we consider the uplink transmission where each RRH quantizes the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-12 Yu Zhang , Xuelu Wu , Hong Peng , Caijun Zhong , Xiaoming Chen

In this paper, cooperative edge caching problem is studied in fog radio access networks (F-RANs). Given the non-deterministic polynomial hard (NP-hard) property of the problem, a dueling deep Q network (Dueling DQN) based caching update…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-24 Yanxiang Jiang , Min Zhang , Fu-Chun Zheng , Yan Chen , Mehdi Bennis , Xiaohu You

As a promising paradigm for fifth generation (5G) wireless communication systems, cloud radio access networks (C-RANs) have been shown to reduce both capital and operating expenditures, as well as to provide high spectral efficiency (SE)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 M. Peng , C. Wang , V. Lau , H. V. Poor

This paper considers the uplink of a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) comprised of several multi-antenna remote radio units (RUs) which compress the signals that they receive from multiple mobile users (MUs) and forward them to a CU via…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Marzieh Najafi , Vahid Jamali , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

Machine learning applied to architecture design presents a promising opportunity with broad applications. Recent deep reinforcement learning (DRL) techniques, in particular, enable efficient exploration in vast design spaces where…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Ting-Ru Lin , Drew Penney , Massoud Pedram , Lizhong Chen

Adaptivity, reconfigurability and intelligence are key features of the next-generation wireless networks to meet the increasingly diverse quality of service (QoS) requirements of the future applications. Conventional protocol designs,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Navid Keshtiarast , Marina Petrova

The gains afforded by cloud radio access network (C-RAN) in terms of savings in capital and operating expenses, flexibility, interference management and network densification rely on the presence of high-capacity low-latency fronthaul…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Osvaldo Simeone , Jinkyu Kang , Joonhyuk Kang , Shlomo Shamai

We study the problem of uplink compression for cell-free multi-input multi-output networks with limited fronthaul capacity. In compress-forward mode, remote radio heads (RRHs) compress the received signal and forward it to a central unit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Zehua Li , Jingjie Wei , Raviraj Adve

The advent of fifth generation (5G) networks has opened new avenues for enhancing connectivity, particularly in challenging environments like remote areas or disaster-struck regions. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been identified as a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Yuhui Wang , Junaid Farooq

Wireless network optimization has been becoming very challenging as the problem size and complexity increase tremendously, due to close couplings among network entities with heterogeneous service and resource requirements. By continuously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Shimin Gong , Yutong Xie , Jing Xu , Dusit Niyato , Ying-Chang Liang

This paper considers a downlink transmission of cloud radio access network (C-RAN) in which precoded baseband signals at a common baseband unit are compressed before being forwarded to radio units (RUs) through limited fronthaul capacity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Kien-Giang Nguyen , Quang-Doanh Vu , Markku Juntti , Le-Nam Tran

With the emergence of Cloud-RAN as one of the dominant architectural solutions for next-generation mobile networks, the reliability and latency on the fronthaul (FH) segment become critical performance metrics for applications such as the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Ghizlane Mountaser , Toktam Mahmoodi , Osvaldo Simeone

By enabling spectrum sharing between radar and communication operations, the cell-free dual-functional radar-communication (CF-DFRC) system is a promising candidate to significantly improve spectrum efficiency in future sixth-generation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-23 Yue Xiu , Wanting Lyu , You Li , Ran Yang , Phee Lep Yeoh , Wei Zhang , Guangyi Liu , Ning Wei

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is gaining attention as a potential approach to design trajectories for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) used as flying access points in the context of cellular or Internet of Things (IoT)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Omid Esrafilian , Harald Bayerlein , David Gesbert

The growing performance demands and higher deployment densities of next-generation wireless systems emphasize the importance of adopting strategies to manage the energy efficiency of mobile networks. In this demo, we showcase a framework…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Matteo Bordin , Andrea Lacava , Michele Polese , Francesca Cuomo , Tommaso Melodia

Massive MIMO's immense potential to serve large number of users at fast data rates also comes with the caveat of requiring tremendous processing power. This favours a centralized radio access network (C-RAN) architecture that concentrates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Aswathylakshmi P , Radha Krishna Ganti