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Performance Limits of Compressive Sensing Channel Estimation in Dense Cloud RAN
Towards reducing the training signaling overhead in large scale and dense
cloud radio access networks (CRAN), various approaches have been proposed based
on the channel sparsification assumption, namely, only a small subset of the
deployed remote radio heads (RRHs) are of significance to any user in the
system. Motivated by the potential of compressive sensing (CS) techniques in
this setting, this paper provides a rigorous description of the performance
limits of many practical CS algorithms by considering the performance of the,
so called, oracle estimator, which knows a priori which RRHs are of
significance but not their corresponding channel values. By using tools from
stochastic geometry, a closed form analytical expression of the oracle
estimator performance is obtained, averaged over distribution of RRH positions
and channel statistics. Apart from a bound on practical CS algorithms, the
analysis provides important design insights, e.g., on how the training sequence
length affects performance, and identifies the operational conditions where the
channel sparsification assumption is valid. It is shown that the latter is true
only in operational conditions with sufficiently large path loss exponents.Comment: 6 pages, two-column format; ICC 201
Learning Optimal Fronthauling and Decentralized Edge Computation in Fog Radio Access Networks
Fog radio access networks (F-RANs), which consist of a cloud and multiple
edge nodes (ENs) connected via fronthaul links, have been regarded as promising
network architectures. The F-RAN entails a joint optimization of cloud and edge
computing as well as fronthaul interactions, which is challenging for
traditional optimization techniques. This paper proposes a Cloud-Enabled
Cooperation-Inspired Learning (CECIL) framework, a structural deep learning
mechanism for handling a generic F-RAN optimization problem. The proposed
solution mimics cloud-aided cooperative optimization policies by including
centralized computing at the cloud, distributed decision at the ENs, and their
uplink-downlink fronthaul interactions. A group of deep neural networks (DNNs)
are employed for characterizing computations of the cloud and ENs. The
forwardpass of the DNNs is carefully designed such that the impacts of the
practical fronthaul links, such as channel noise and signling overheads, can be
included in a training step. As a result, operations of the cloud and ENs can
be jointly trained in an end-to-end manner, whereas their real-time inferences
are carried out in a decentralized manner by means of the fronthaul
coordination. To facilitate fronthaul cooperation among multiple ENs, the
optimal fronthaul multiple access schemes are designed. Training algorithms
robust to practical fronthaul impairments are also presented. Numerical results
validate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.Comment: to appear in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication
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