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There are two fundamentally different fronthaul techniques in the downlink communication of cloud radio access network (C-RAN): the data-sharing strategy and the compression-based strategy. Under the former strategy, each user's message is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Liang Liu , Wei Yu

Federated Learning has gained attention for its ability to enable multiple nodes to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing raw data. At the same time, Generative AI -- particularly Generative Adversarial Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Youssef Tawfilis , Hossam Amer , Minar El-Aasser , Tallal Elshabrawy

This paper considers the downlink of a cache-enabled fog radio access network (F-RAN) with limited fronthaul capacity, where user association (UA), data delivery rate (DDR) and signal precoding are jointly optimized. We formulate a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Tung T. Vu , Duy T. Ngo , Lawrence Ong , Salman Durrani , Richard H. Middleton

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) improves factuality by grounding LLMs in external knowledge, yet conventional centralized RAG requires aggregating distributed data, raising privacy risks and incurring high retrieval latency and cost.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Wenqing Zhou , Yuxuan Yan , Qianqian Yang

We consider a detection problem where sensors experience noisy measurements and intermittent communication opportunities to a centralized fusion center (or cloud). The objective of the problem is to arrive at the correct estimate of event…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-23 Michal Yemini , Stephanie Gil , Andrea Goldsmith

The uplink of a Cloud Radio Access Network (CRAN) architecture is studied, where decoding at the cloud takes place at distributed decoding processors. To mitigate the impact of straggling decoders in the cloud, the cloud re-encodes the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Jinwen Shi , Cong Ling , Osvaldo Simeone , Jörg Kliewer

Recent studies have shown that collaborative intelligence (CI) is a promising framework for deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based services on mobile devices. In CI, a deep neural network is split between the mobile device and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Saeed Ranjbar Alvar , Ivan V. Bajić

We consider a Fog Radio Access Network (F-RAN) with a Base Band Unit (BBU) in the cloud and multiple cache-enabled enhanced Remote Radio Heads (eRRHs). The system aims at delivering contents on demand with minimal average latency from a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-23 Jihwan Moon , Osvaldo Simeone , Seok-Hwan Park , Inkyu Lee

For satellite images, the presence of clouds presents a problem as clouds obscure more than half to two-thirds of the ground information. This problem causes many issues for reliability in a noise-free environment to communicate data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Dale Chen-Song , Erfan Khalaji , Vaishali Rani

In this paper, we consider an uplink heterogeneous cloud radio access network (H-CRAN), where a macro base station (BS) coexists with many remote radio heads (RRHs). For cost-savings, only the BS is connected to the baseband unit (BBU) pool…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Wenchao Xia , Jun Zhang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Shi Jin , Hongbo Zhu

In hierarchical cognitive radio networks, edge or cloud servers utilize the data collected by edge devices for modulation classification, which, however, is faced with problems of the transmission overhead, data privacy, and computation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Chaowei He , Peihao Dong , Fuhui Zhou , Qihui Wu

Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is a promising architecture for unprecedented capacity enhancement in next-generation wireless networks thanks to the centralization and virtualization of base station processing. However, centralized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Congmin Fan , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying Jun Zhang

This paper presents a unified AI framework for high-accuracy audio anomaly detection by integrating advanced noise reduction, feature extraction, and machine learning modeling techniques. The approach combines spectral subtraction and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Hamideh Khaleghpour , Brett McKinney

In the Internet-of-Things (IoT) era, efficient functionality integration is essential to address the growing demands of communication, computation, and sensing. Signal-level integrated sensing, computing, and communication (Sig-ISCC) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Paul Zheng , Yao Zhu , Xiaopeng Yuan , Yulin Hu , Anke Schmeink

The ultra-dense cloud radio access network (UD-CRAN), in which remote radio heads (RRHs) are densely deployed in the network, is considered. To reduce the channel estimation overhead, we focus on the design of robust transmit beamforming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-12 Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Lajos Hanzo

The concept of AI-RAN as specified by the AI-RAN alliance is geared to explore a converged 6G platform that can support management, orchestration, and deployment of both AI and RAN workloads. This concept is central to the development of a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Syed Danial Ali Shah , Zeinab Nezami , Maryam Hafeez , Syed Ali Raza Zaidi

Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely applied in mobile intelligent applications. The inference for the DNNs is usually performed in the cloud. However, it leads to a large overhead of transmitting data via wireless…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Guangli Li , Lei Liu , Xueying Wang , Xiao Dong , Peng Zhao , Xiaobing Feng

Emerging deployments of Generative AI increasingly execute inference across decentralized and heterogeneous edge devices rather than on a single trusted server. In such environments, a single device failure or misbehavior can disrupt the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Chanh Nguyen , Erik Elmroth

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

A promising way to deploy Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based services on mobile devices is to run a part of the AI model (a deep neural network) on the mobile itself, and the rest in the cloud. This is sometimes referred to as collaborative…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Saeed Ranjbar Alvar , Ivan V. Bajić