Fronthaul compression for cloud radio access networks: Signal processing advances inspired by network information theory

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 69-79

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

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INTERDIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

^d TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; RADIO LINKS;

ADVANCED SIGNAL PROCESSING; BASE-BAND PROCESSING; NETWORK INFORMATION; NETWORK INFORMATION THEORY; NOVEL ARCHITECTURE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS CELLULAR SYSTEMS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 85032752095     PISSN: 10535888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2014.2330031     Document Type: Article

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