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The considered problem is that of maximizing the degrees of freedom (DoF) in cellular downlink, under a backhaul load constraint that limits the number of messages that can be delivered from a centralized controller to the base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Aly El Gamal , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

Cloud RAN (C-RAN) is a promising enabler for distributed massive MIMO systems, yet is vulnerable to its fronthaul congestion. To cope with the limited fronthaul capacity, this paper proposes a hybrid analog-digital precoding design that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Jihong Park , Dong Min Kim , Elisabeth De Carvalho , Carles Navarro Manchón

In this paper, we investigate the energy efficient power allocation for the downlink in the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems under zero-forcing (ZF) receiver. The radio frequencies (RF) that have a significant effect on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Mahdi Nangir , Abdolrasoul Sakhaei Gharagezlou , Nima Imani

Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is considered as one of the most promising candidate for Fifth Generation (5G) wireless communication system. However, C-RAN imposes stringent requirements on fronthaul in terms of capacity which in turn…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-19 Sandip Das , Marco Ruffini

Federated Learning (FL) with quantization and deliberately added noise over wireless networks is a promising approach to preserve user differential privacy (DP) while reducing wireless resources. Specifically, an FL process can be fused…

In this paper, we propose network massive multiple- input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where three radio units (RUs) connected via one digital unit (DU) support multiple user equipments (UEs) at a cell-boundary through the same radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-20 Changwoo Lee , Chan-Byoung Chae , Taehyung Kim , Sooyong Choi , Juho Lee

Wireless positioning systems that are implemented by means of a Cloud Radio Access Networks (C-RANs) may provide cost-effective solutions, particularly for indoor localization. In a C-RAN, the baseband processing, including localization, is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Seongah Jeong , Osvaldo Simeone , Alexander Haimovich , Joonhyuk Kang

This letter aims to provide sensing capabilities for a potential eavesdropper, while simultaneously enabling the secure communications with the legitimate users in a cell-free multipleinput multiple-output system with limited fronthaul…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-13 Seongjun Kim , Seongah Jeong

The limited fronthaul capacity is known to be one of the main problems in cloud radio access networks (CRANs), especially in the wireless fronthaul links. In this paper, we consider the uplink of a CRAN system, where massive multiple-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Dick Maryopi , Yingjia Huang , Aissa Ikhlef

Caching of popular contents at cellular base stations, i.e., edge caching, in order to eliminate duplicate transmission through the backhaul can reduce the latency of data delivery in $5$G networks. However, since caching can only reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Tachporn Sanguanpuak , Sudarshan Guruacharya , Ekram Hossain , Dusit Niyato , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

Uplink and downlink cloud radio access networks are modeled as two-hop K-user L-relay networks, whereby small base-stations act as relays for end-to-end communications and are connected to a central processor via orthogonal fronthaul links…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Shouvik Ganguly , Seung-Eun Hong , Young-Han Kim

Caching at the edge is a promising technique to cope with the increasing data demand in wireless networks. This paper analyzes the performance of cellular networks consisting of a tier macro-cell wireless backhaul nodes overlaid with a tier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Italo Atzeni , Marco Maso , Imène Ghamnia , Ejder Baştuğ , Mérouane Debbah

With a great potential of improving the service fairness and quality for user equipments (UEs), cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) has been regarded as an emerging candidate for 6G network architectures. Under ideal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Hangyu Zhang , Rui Zhang , Yongzhao Li , Yuhan Ruan , Tao Li , Dong Yang

For large language models (LLMs), post-training quantization (PTQ) can significantly reduce memory footprint and computational overhead. Model quantization is rapidly evolving. Though many papers report breakthrough results, they are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yutong Liu , Cairong Zhao , Guosheng Hu

In traditional Fog-Radio Access Networks (F-RANs), enhanced remote radio heads (eRRHs) are connected to a macro base station (MBS) through fronthaul links. Deploying a massive number of eRRHs is not always feasible due to site constraints…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Hesameddin Mokhtarzadeh , Mohammed S. Al-Abiad , Md Jahangir Hossain , Julian Cheng

This paper investigates the compress-and-forward scheme for an uplink cloud radio access network (C-RAN) model, where multi-antenna base-stations (BSs) are connected to a cloud-computing based central processor (CP) via capacity-limited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Yuhan Zhou , Yinfei Xu , Wei Yu , Jun Chen

Recently, physical layer (PHY) caching has been proposed to exploit the dynamic side information induced by caches at base stations (BSs) to support Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) and achieve huge degrees of freedom (DoF) gains. Due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-18 An Liu , Vincent Lau , Wenchao Ding , Edmund Yeh

Nowadays, data caching is being used as a high-speed data storage layer in mobile edge computing networks employing flow control methodologies at an exponential rate. This study shows how to discover the best architecture for backhaul…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Amir Ziaeddini , Amin Mohajer , Davoud Yousefi , A. Mirzaei , Shu Gonglee

In an ultra-dense cloud radio access network (UD-CRAN), a large number of remote radio heads (RRHs), typically employed as simple relay nodes, are distributed in a target area, which could even outnumber their served users. However, one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Reuben George Stephen , Rui Zhang

Cloud-Radio Access Networks (Cloud-RANs) are separating the mobile networks base station functions into three units, the connection between the two of them is referred to as the fronthaul network. This work demonstrates the transmission of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Line Larsen , Frank Slyne , Ghizlane Mountaser , Marco Ruffini , Toktam Mahmoodi