Future mobile networks need to support intelligent services which collect and process data
streams at the network edge, so as to offer real-time and accurate inferences to users …

Mobile network traffic is increasing and so is the energy consumption. The Radio Access
Network (RAN) part is responsible for the largest share of the mobile network energy …

The Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Alliance is driving the latest evolution of RAN
deployments, moving from traditionally closed and dedicated hardware implementations …

Recent advances in learning techniques have garnered attention for their applicability to a
diverse range of real-world sequential decision-making problems. Yet, many practical …

In virtualized radio access network (vRAN), the base station (BS) functions are decomposed
into virtualized components that can be hosted at the centralized unit or distributed units …

Next-generation mobile networks will largely benefit from advances in softwarization and
cloudification of network functions. However, fully exploiting the new potential of flexible …

While there is a clear trend towards network automation through the usage of Artificial
Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) solutions, the major reference network …

Virtualized Radio Access Networks (vRANs) are fully configurable and can be implemented
at a low cost over commodity platforms to enable network management flexibility. In this …

O-RAN systems and their deployment in virtualized general-purpose computing platforms (O-
Cloud) constitute a paradigm shift expected to bring unprecedented performance gains …

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) can be implemented together with Open Radio Access
Network (O-RAN) over commodity platforms to offer low-cost deployment and bring the …