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The fifth-generation mobile networks are designed to accommodate billions of users worldwide with numerous applications and different service level requirements by providing significantly high data rates and availability with reduced latency. These requirements can be achieved by exploiting Next Generation — Radio Access Network (NG-RAN) architectures. One such famous architecture is Cloud Radio Access Network, whose Next Generation NodeB functions are physically decoupled into different entities — Radio Unit (RU), Distributed Unit (DU), and Central Unit (CU). The Central Units are connected to the 5G Core Network (CN), and all the components are likely to be virtualized and run on the commercial off-the-shelf hardware in the micro/macro data centers. However, decoupling the functionalities in the 5G RAN could not fully help in achieving higher network performance when these functions are run …