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 …

Fully cloudified mobile network infrastructure, which is featured by the joint deployment of
heterogeneous cloud radio access networks and edge computing, will successfully cope …

The massive growth of diversified smart devices and continuous data generation poses a
challenge to communication architectures. To deal with this problem, communication …

Cloud radio access network (Cloud-RAN) is a promising wireless network architecture that
can satisfy the fast growing mobile data traffic and improve the performance of Internet of …

In this paper, we investigate joint user (UE) scheduling, base station (BS) clustering and
beamforming design in a dense network. To reduce the computation burden, we propose a …

Fog radio access networks (F-RANs) are becoming an emerging and promising paradigm
for fifth generation cellular communication systems. In F-RANs, distributed edge caching …

This paper considers the unavailability of complete channel state information (CSI) in ultra-
dense cloud radio access networks. The user-centric cluster is adopted to reduce the …

While 4G is speeding up its steps toward global markets, 5G has initiated its full
development to satisfy an increasing demand on mobile data traffic and big data bandwidth …

Radio access network (RAN) slicing is a virtualization technology that partitions radio
resources into multiple autonomous virtual networks. Since RAN slicing can be tailored to …

The number of wireless devices is growing rapidly on a daily basis echoing the increasing
number of applications of the Internet of Thing. Facing massive connections and …