The commercialization of Cloud-RAN, and Open-RAN in particular, is a key factor to enable
5G cell densification by providing lower cost and more agile deployment of small cells. In …

As progressive densification of cells, deployment of Cloud-RAN and Multi Access Edge
Computing (MEC) are coming into reality to support the ultra-low latency with high reliability …

Slicing allows 5G networks to accommodate services with different needs over a unified
physical network infrastructure. Particularly, in radio access networks (RANs), the baseband …

In the context of the rapid deployment of IoT, 5G, and cloud computing, numerous emerging
applications demand efficient networked computing capacity for task offloading from mobile …

With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT), IoT mobile devices host more
computation-intensive and real-time applications, such as face recognition, online gaming …

The recently proposed open-radio access network (O-RAN) architecture embraces
cloudification and network function virtualization techniques to perform the base-band …

Ultralow latency end-to-end communication with high reliability is one of the most important
requirements in 5G networks to support latency-critical applications. A recent approach …

Computation offloading to edge-computing technologies is highly desirable to enable the
use of low-latency computation intensive mobile-applications. To meet the desired latency …

Cloud-based computing technology is one of the most significant technical advents of the
last decade and extension of this facility towards access networks by aggregation of …

In recent years, the increasing traffic demand in radio access networks (RANs) has led to
considerable growth in the number of base stations (BSs), posing a serious scalability issue …