The 5G radio access network (RAN) features a partially centralized architecture, in which a
subset of the network functions are deployed in a centralized unit. Centralizing these …

The city of L'Aquila is one of the five Italian cities selected by the Italian government to host
the 5G experimentation. This city has the specificity of being a" living lab", because it is …

5G targets to offer a huge network capacity to support the expected unprecedented traffic
growth due mainly to mobile and machine-type services. Thus, the 5G access network has to …

Functional split is a promising technique to flexibly balance the processing cost at remote
ends and the fronthaul rate in cloud radio access networks (C-RAN). By harvesting …

We study Flexible Functional Split functionality of 5G vRAN controllers in 5G networks. We
propose an innovative model, based on a Markov Chain, which can be used to characterize …

In 4G cloud radio access networks (C-RAN), latency at the mobile fronthaul was conceived
mainly as a limiting factor of the fronthaul length. As long as fronthaul latency is not leading …

We study the delay over virtual RAN (vRAN) topologies, entailing base stations that are
divided into centralized and distributed units, as well as the packet-switched fronthaul …

The introduction of functional splits in C-RANs brings a tradeoff between radio performance
and transport capacity. Higher-layer splits relax transport capacity requirements, whereas …

In this paper, we study a delay-aware admission control (AC) and beam allocation (BA)
problem with the consideration of quality of experience (QoE) and dynamic variation of …

This work tackles the problem faced by network/infrastructure providers of jointly selecting
routing and functional split level to satisfy requests from virtual mobile network operators …