Throughput and Energy Efficiency for S-FFR in Massive MIMO Enabled Heterogeneous C-RAN [PDF]
, 2016 This paper considers the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) enabled heterogeneous cloud radio access network (C-RAN), in which both remote radio heads (RRHs) and massive MIMO macrocell base stations (BS) are deployed to potentially accomplish ...
Chen, Y +4 more
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Statistical Multiplexing of Computations in C-RAN with Tradeoffs in Latency and Energy [PDF]
, 2017 In the Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) architecture, the baseband signals from multiple remote radio heads are processed in a centralized baseband unit (BBU) pool.
Agurto Agurto, Mauricio Ignacio +4 more
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Parallel Two-Way Relay Channel Estimation in Cloud-Based 5G Radio Access Networks
IEEE Access, 2020 The cloud radio access network (C-RAN) aims at migrating the traditional base station functionality to a cloud-based centralized base band unit (BBU) pool, thereby providing a promising paradigm for fifth-generation (5G) wireless systems. This results in
Ali A. El-Moursy +3 more
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Energy efficiency using cloud management of LTE networks employing fronthaul and virtualized baseband processing pool [PDF]
, 2019 The cloud radio access network (C-RAN) emerges as one of the future solutions to handle the ever-growing data traffic, which is beyond the physical resources of current mobile networks. The C-RAN decouples the traffic management operations from the radio
Al-dulaimi, Anwer +2 more
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On the Statistical Multiplexing Gain of Virtual Base Station Pools [PDF]
, 2014 Facing the explosion of mobile data traffic, cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is proposed recently to overcome the efficiency and flexibility problems with the traditional RAN architecture by centralizing baseband processing.
Gong, Jie +4 more
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Cloud Radio Random-Access Networks With Multi-Packet Reception Capability
IEEE AccessCloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) refers to the virtualization of base station functionalities by means of cloud computing. With centralized processing at the cloud, the amount of hardware and infrastructure in a network can be reduced and it allows for
Cheolkyu Shin +3 more
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Distributed Learning Assisted Fronthaul Compression for Multi-Antenna C-RAN
IEEE Access, 2021 This paper investigates the uplink reception in the cloud radio access network (C-RAN), sometimes called centralized-RAN. C-RAN is an architecture for cellular networks which consists of many remote radio units (RRUs) connected to a central processor (CP)
Aymen Askri +2 more
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Heterogeneous Cloud Radio Access Networks：Principle，Architecture，Techniques and Challenges
Dianxin kexue, 2015 To mitigate the severe inter-tier interference and enhance limited cooperative gains resulting from the constrained and non-ideal transmissions between adjacent base stations in heterogeneous networks（HetNet），and solve the emerging problems including the
Mugen Peng, Yuan Ai
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Random Access in C-RAN for User Activity Detection with Limited-Capacity Fronthaul
, 2016 Cloud-Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is characterized by a hierarchical structure in which the baseband processing functionalities of remote radio heads (RRHs) are implemented by means of cloud computing at a Central Unit (CU).
Dimitrova, Tamara +3 more
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C-RAN Traffic Aggregation on Latency-Controlled Ethernet Links
Applied Sciences, 2018 Centralized/Cloud Radio Access Networks (C-RAN) are deployed in converged fixed-mobile networks to exploit the flexibility coming from joint application of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN).
Federico Tonini +4 more
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