From cloud RAN to open RAN

L Gavrilovska, V Rakovic, D Denkovski - Wireless Personal …, 2020 - Springer
This paper presents the generic definitions, basic functionalities and current research trends
in Cloud Radio Access Networks and its derivatives, Virtual Radio Access Networks and …

Minimum delay function placement and resource allocation for Open RAN (O-RAN) 5G networks

N Kazemifard, V Shah-Mansouri - Computer Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
Digitalization is a journey that has been started and put ICT industry in a crucial situation to
provide required infrastructure for diverse range of data hungry, short tempered applications …

Cost-effective migration toward virtualized C-RAN with scalable fronthaul design

M Masoudi, SS Lisi, C Cavdar - IEEE Systems Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Migration from distributed to centralized radio access networks (C-RANs) can be expensive
in terms of capital expenditures due to the initial investment while it has lower operational …

Orchestrating end-to-end slices in 5G networks

D Harutyunyan, R Fedrizzi, N Shahriar… - … on Network and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
5G networks are characterized by massive device connectivity, supporting a wide range of
novel applications with their diverse Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. This poses a …

Efficient Network Slicing for 5G Services in Cloud Fog-RAN Deployment Over WDM Network

M Ahsan, A Ahmed, H Fida, A Al-Dweik… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network slicing in fifth generation (5G) radio access network (RAN) enables serving massive
network traffic with diverse and stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements. Multiple …

Globally optimal resource allocation and time scheduling in downlink cognitive CRAN favoring big data requests

M Bigdeli, S Farahmand, B Abolhassani… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper is concerned with a cognitive cloud radio access network (CRAN) with a special
attention to efficient and reliable downlink transmission of big data for secondary users …

CU placement over a reconfigurable wireless fronthaul in 5G networks with functional splits

D Harutyunyan, R Riggio, S Kuklinski… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mobile network operators are currently facing a tremendous increase in the level of data
traffic. Although cell size reduction is one of the most common ways used to accommodate …

Association control for user centric millimeter wave communication systems

S Choi, JG Choi, S Bahk - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication enables ultra-high rate data transmission in
wireless environments, but its performance depends on blockages between the transmitter …

A green traffic steering solution for next generation communication networks

H Khaled, I Ahmad, D Habibi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, green communications and networks have drawn increasing attention from
researchers and relevant industries owing to their economic and environmental benefits. In …

Cost-effective joint optimisation of BBU placement and fronthaul deployment in brown-field scenarios

A Marotta, LM Correia - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications …, 2020 - Springer
In this work, one proposes a model to evaluate the optimal deployment of Centralised Radio
Access Network (C-RAN) architecture elements, ie Base Band processing Units (BBUs) and …