2 research outputs found
End-to-End Rate Enhancement in C-RAN Using Multi-Pair Two-Way Computation
Cloud radio-access networks (C-RAN) have been proposed as an enabling
technology for keeping up with the requirements of next-generation wireless
networks. Most existing works on C-RAN consider the uplink or the downlink
separately. However, designing the uplink and the downlink jointly may bring
additional advantage, especially if message source-destination information is
taken into account. In this paper, this idea is demonstrated by considering
pairwise message exchange between users in a C-RAN. A multi-pair two-way
transmission scheme is proposed which targets maximizing the end-to-end user
data rates. In the proposed scheme, a lattice-based computation strategy is
used, where the baseband processing unit (BBU) pool decodes integer linear
combinations of paired users' codewords instead of decoding linear combinations
of individual codewords. The BBU pool then compresses the computed signals and
forwards them to the remote radio heads (RRHs), which decompress the signals
and send them to the users. Finally, each user decodes its desired message
using its own message as side information. The achievable rate of this scheme
is derived, optimized, and evaluated numerically. Results reveal that
significant end-to-end rate improvement can be achieved using the proposed
scheme compared to existing schemes
On the Capacity Regions of Cloud Radio Access Networks with Limited Orthogonal Fronthaul
Uplink and downlink cloud radio access networks are modeled as two-hop K-user
L-relay networks, whereby small base-stations act as relays for end-to-end
communications and are connected to a central processor via orthogonal
fronthaul links of finite capacities. Simplified versions of network
compress-forward (or noisy network coding) and distributed decode-forward are
presented to establish inner bounds on the capacity region for uplink and
downlink communications, that match the respective cutset bounds to within a
finite gap independent of the channel gains and signal to noise ratios. These
approximate capacity regions are then compared with the capacity regions for
networks with no capacity limit on the fronthaul. Although it takes infinite
fronthaul link capacities to achieve these "fronthaul-unlimited" capacity
regions exactly, these capacity regions can be approached approximately with
finite-capacity fronthaul. The total fronthaul link capacities required to
approach the fronthaul-unlimited sum-rates (for uplink and downlink) are
characterized. Based on these results, the capacity scaling law in the large
network size limit is established under certain uplink and downlink network
models, both theoretically and via simulations