Recent advances in cloud radio access networks: System architectures, key techniques, and open issues

M Peng, Y Sun, X Li, Z Mao… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a promising paradigm to reduce both capital and operating expenditures, the cloud radio
access network (C-RAN) has been shown to provide high spectral efficiency and energy …

Content-centric sparse multicast beamforming for cache-enabled cloud RAN

M Tao, E Chen, H Zhou, W Yu - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a content-centric transmission design in a cloud radio access network
by incorporating multicasting and caching. Users requesting the same content form a …

Sparse beamforming and user-centric clustering for downlink cloud radio access network

B Dai, W Yu - IEEE Access, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers a downlink cloud radio access network (C-RAN) in which all the base-
stations (BSs) are connected to a central computing cloud via digital backhaul links with …

Energy efficiency of downlink transmission strategies for cloud radio access networks

B Dai, W Yu - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the energy efficiency of the cloud radio access network (C-RAN),
specifically focusing on two fundamental and different downlink transmission strategies …

Downlink and uplink energy minimization through user association and beamforming in C-RAN

S Luo, R Zhang, TJ Lim - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The cloud radio access network (C-RAN) concept, in which densely deployed access points
(APs) are empowered by cloud computing to cooperatively support mobile users (MUs), to …

Secure and green SWIPT in distributed antenna networks with limited backhaul capacity

DWK Ng, R Schober - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the resource allocation algorithm design for secure information and
renewable green energy transfer to mobile receivers in distributed antenna communication …

Cross-layer resource allocation with elastic service scaling in cloud radio access network

J Tang, WP Tay, TQS Quek - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

A tutorial on clique problems in communications and signal processing

A Douik, H Dahrouj, TY Al-Naffouri… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since its first use by Euler on the problem of the seven bridges of Königsberg, graph theory
has shown excellent abilities in solving and unveiling the properties of multiple discrete …

Energy-efficient resource allocation optimization for multimedia heterogeneous cloud radio access networks

M Peng, Y Yu, H Xiang, HV Poor - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The heterogeneous cloud radio access network (H-CRAN) is a promising paradigm that
incorporates cloud computing into heterogeneous networks (HetNets), thereby taking full …

Joint channel estimation and data detection in cell-free massive MU-MIMO systems

H Song, T Goldstein, X You, C Zhang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a joint channel estimation and data detection (JED) algorithm for densely-
populated cell-free massive multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems …