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Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Zakir Hussain Shaik , Sai Subramanyam Thoota , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

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

The cloud radio access network (C-RAN) provides high spectral and energy efficiency performances, low expenditures and intelligent centralized system structures to operators, which has attracted intense interests in both academia and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-30 Jian Li , Mugen Peng , Aolin Cheng , Yuling Yu , Chonggang Wang

This work studies the uplink of a multi-tenant cloud radio access network (C-RAN) system with spectrum pooling. In the system, each operator has a cloud processor (CP) connected to a set of proprietary radio units (RUs) through…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-29 Junbeom Kim , Daesung Yu , Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Shlomo Shamai

This paper investigates the fronthaul compression problem in a user-centric cloud radio access network, in which single-antenna users are served by a central processor (CP) cooperatively via a cluster of remote radio heads (RRHs). To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Ruihua Qiao , Tao Jiang , Wei Yu

Hybrid beamforming is known to be a cost-effective and wide-spread solution for a system with large-scale antenna arrays. This work studies the optimization of the analog and digital components of the hybrid beamforming solution for remote…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Jaein Kim , Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Inkyu Lee , Shlomo Shamai

Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) with centralized baseband processing is envisioned as a promising candidate for the next-generation wireless communication network. However, the joint processing gain of C-RAN is fundamentally constrained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-23 Liu Liang , Zhang Rui

The evolution of telecommunication network towards cloud-native environments enables flexible centralization of the base band processing of radio signals. There is however a trade-off between the centralization benefits and the fronthaul…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Veronica Quintuna Rodriguez , Fabrice Guillemin , Alexandre Ferrieux , Laurent Thomas

The deployment of ultra-dense networks (UDNs), particularly cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO), is mainly hindered by costly and capacity-limited fronthaul links. This work proposes a two-tiered optimization framework for cost-effective…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Anas S. Mohammed , Krishnendu S. Tharakan , Hussein A. Ammar , Hesham ElSawy , Hossam S. Hassanein

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

With the evolution of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology toward extremely large (XL) MIMO systems comprising hundreds of, or more, antennas, this work investigates scalable and fronthaul-efficient reception design for the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Dogon Kim , Hyunmin Noh , Seok-Hwan Park

The radio access network (RAN) part of the next-generation wireless networks will require efficient solutions for satisfying low latency and high-throughput services. The open RAN (O-RAN) is one of the candidates to achieve this goal, in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Turgay Pamuklu , Shahram Mollahasani , Melike Erol-Kantarci

We study downlink of multiantenna cloud radio access networks (C-RANs) with finite-capacity fronthaul links. The aim is to propose joint designs of beamforming and remote radio head (RRH)-user association, subject to constraints on users'…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Kien-Giang Nguyen , Quang-Doanh Vu , Markku Juntti , Le-Nam Tran

Future autonomous transportation systems necessitate network infrastructure capable of accommodating massive vehicular connectivity, despite the scarce availability of frequency resources. Current approaches for achieving such required high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 George N. Katsaros , Konstantinos Nikitopoulos

Network densification, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands have recently emerged as some of the physical layer enablers for the future generations of wireless communication networks (5G and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-21 Guillem Femenias , Felip Riera-Palou

As wireless networks grow to support more complex applications, the Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architecture, with its smart RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) modules, becomes a crucial solution for real-time network data collection,…

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Limited-backhaul cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), in which the fog radio access network (F-RAN) is implemented to exchange the information between access points (APs) and the central processing unit (CPU), is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Manijeh Bashar , Hien Quoc Ngo , Alister G. Burr , Dick Maryopi , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Erik G. Larsson

In the uplink of a cell-free massive MIMO system, quantization affects performance in two key domains: the time-domain distortion introduced by finite-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) at the access points (APs), and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

We consider a cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system and investigate the system performance for the case when the quantized version of the estimated channel and the quantized received signal are available at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Manijeh Bashar , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Alister G. Burr , Hien Quoc Ngo , Merouane Debbah

In this work, we study a full-duplex (FD) cloud radio access network (C-RAN) from the aspects of infrastructure sharing and information secrecy, where the central unit utilizes FD remote radio units (RU)s belonging to the same operator,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Omid Taghizadeh , Tianyu Yang , Hiroki Iimori , Giuseppe Abreu , Ali Cagatay Cirik , Rudolf Mathar