Joint Optimization of Cloud and Edge Processing for Fog Radio Access Networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 7621-7632

  Park, Seok Hwan ^a   Simeone, Osvaldo ^b   Shitz, Shlomo Shamai ^c  

^a Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

beamforming; C RAN; edge caching; Fog radio access network; fronthaul compression; pre fetching

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; FOG; RADIO;

BASE-BAND PROCESSING; EDGE CACHING; JOINT OPTIMIZATION; POWER CONSTRAINTS; PREFETCHING; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; REMOTE RADIO HEADS; SUPER-POSITION CODING;

RADIO LINKS;

EID: 85027072092     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2016.2605104     Document Type: Article

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