With centralized processing, cooperative radio, and cloud infrastructure, cloud radio access
network (CRAN) has attracted much attention due to its flexibility in network operation and …

Virtualization is the trend for the future mobile networks. With the advantage of virtualization,
we can abstract the physical mobile network into the virtual network function (VNF) and …

Abstract Recently, Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) has been emerging as a cost-
effective solution supporting huge volumes of mobile traffic in the big data era. C-RAN …

Wireless network virtualization enables mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) to
develop new services on a low-cost platform by leasing virtual resources from mobile …

Virtualized radio access networks (vRAN) are emerging as a key component of wireless
cellular networks, and it is therefore imperative to optimize their architecture. vRANs are …

This paper proposes a virtual resource (VR) allocation scheme for OFDMA based wireless
virtualization networks (WVNs). The scheme considers the time-variant wireless channel …

In this work, we develop a contract theory framework to tackle the allocations of
heterogeneous baseband processing units (BBUs) in cloud radio access network. We first …

Computational resource allocation is a critical issue for the baseband unit (BBU) pool in a
cloud radio access network (C-RAN). There are multiple resources in a BBU, including CPU …

In this paper we propose and evaluate an auction-based resource allocation mechanism in
a cloud-based radio access network (C-RAN), where the spectrum is managed by several …

Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) aims to improve spectrum and energy efficiency of
wireless networks by migrating conventional distributed base station functionalities into a …