An F-RAN is presented in this article as a promising paradigm for the fifth generation
wireless communication system to provide high spectral and energy efficiency. The core …

As a promising paradigm for fifth generation wireless communication systems, cloud radio
access networks (C-RANs) have been shown to reduce both capital and operating …

Mobile data traffic grew by 74% in 2015 and it is expected to grow eight-fold by 2020. Future
wireless networks will need to deploy massive number of small cells to cope with this …

This work studies the joint design of precoding and backhaul compression strategies for the
downlink of cloud radio access networks. In these systems, a central encoder is connected …

The conventional two-way relaying (TWR) protocol requires that the transmitter (receiver) in
one direction must be the receiver (transmitter) in the other direction, a limitation precluding …

Historically, research efforts in optical networks have focused on the goal of continuously
increasing capacity rather than on lowering end-to-end latency. This slowly started to …

Toward 6G: A New Era of Convergence [Invited] Page 1 Toward 6G: A New Era of Convergence
[Invited] Martin Maier Optical Zeitgeist Laboratory, INRS, Montréal, QC, Canada …

In this paper, we shed some light on the latency and reliability issues of mobile backhaul
networks, which have been largely ignored in the past, and examine their impact on LTE-A …

Ultra-dense networks (UDNs) are one of the key enabling techniques for implementation of
5G wireless communication systems, and inter-cell interference is a major issue in UDNs …

Abstract Machine‐to‐machine (M2M) communication has received increasing attention in
recent year. An M2M network exhibits some salient features such as large number of …