Fairness guaranteed and auction-based x-haul and cloud resource allocation in multi-tenant O-RANs

S Mondal, M Ruffini - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The open-radio access network (O-RAN) embraces cloudification and network function
virtualization for base-band function processing by dis-aggregated radio units (RUs) …

A min-max fair resource allocation framework for optical x-haul and DU/CU in multi-tenant O-RANs

S Mondal, M Ruffini - ICC 2022-IEEE International Conference …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recently proposed open-radio access network (O-RAN) architecture embraces
cloudification and network function virtualization techniques to perform the base-band …

Optical front/mid-haul with open access-edge server deployment framework for sliced O-RAN

S Mondal, M Ruffini - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The fifth-generation of mobile radio technologies is expected to be agile, flexible, and
scalable while provisioning ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (uRLLC) …

Game-assisted distributed decision making to build virtual TDM-PONs in C-RANs adaptively

L Liang, W Lu, M Tornatore, Z Zhu - Journal of Optical …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Although a promising solution for next-generation radio access networks (RANs), cloud RAN
(C-RAN) still faces technical challenges due to the separate locations of the cloud-based …

Optimal slicing of virtualized passive optical networks to support dense deployment of cloud-RAN and multi-access edge computing

S Das, F Slyne, M Ruffini - IEEE Network, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Joint allocation of radio and optical resources in virtualized cloud RAN with CoMP

X Wang, C Cavdar, L Wang, M Tornatore… - 2016 IEEE Global …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
5G Radio Access Networks (RANs) are supposed to increase their capacity by 1000x to
handle growing number of connected devices and increasing data rates. The concept of …

Energy-efficient virtual base station formation in optical-access-enabled cloud-RAN

X Wang, S Thota, M Tornatore… - IEEE Journal on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Resource Allocation with Vickrey-Dutch Auctioning Game for C-RAN Fronthaul

D Sahinel, S Rommel, IT Monroy - 2022 IEEE Future Networks …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The network slicing concept divides physical networks into logical networks and abstracts
the network resources. With the help of virtualization technologies, these abstracted network …

Low-latency and energy-efficient BBU placement and VPON formation in virtualized cloud-fog RAN

RI Tinini, DM Batista, GB Figueiredo… - Journal of Optical …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Cloud radio access networks (CRANs) make it possible to reduce power consumption in
future 5G networks by decoupling baseband units (BBUs) from cell sites and centralizing the …

Optimized joint allocation of radio, optical, and MEC resources for the 5G and beyond fronthaul

T Lagkas, D Klonidis, P Sarigiannidis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In 5G and beyond telecommunication infrastructures a crucial challenge in achieving the
strict Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) regarding capacity, latency, and guaranteed quality …